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Old August 23rd 11, 11:16 PM posted to sci.physics.relativity,sci.physics,sci.math,sci.astro
Tom Roberts[_2_]
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Default the GPS myth almost mythbusted

On 8/23/11 8/23/11 - 2:19 PM, Martin Brown wrote:
[about the GPS]
It could all have been done by iterative empirically fitted engineering
corrections without any understanding of why


Not a chance. Nobody would have given them several billion dollars on the mere
hope that it could be made to work.


Tom Roberts