my inner geek wrote:
> Now that we know that GPS fits on chips (http://www.sirf.com/), how
> do we get the civilians to have the same precision of the military?
>
> http://mrmc-www.army.mil/mrmc_library/astmp/original/aD/D3A3.htm
>
> How can a civilian organization build a transportation infrastructure
> that consists of computer navigated electric shuttles, when the
> civilian chips are only accurate to 100 meters?
I had thought that it was actually 30 meters (100 feet). Its actually rather easy. you can:
> And why do we need
> our tax dollars going to tanks, planes, and cruise missiles when we
> have speed-of-light kill systems like THOR? Maybe it's time to call
> some friends at the phone company and have them start making lists of
> home addresses for the senior executives at all military industrial
> complex defense contracts, just so that when the next boondoggle war
> starts, we can begin eye-for-an-eye deanimation of the dogs of war?
Actually, gps makes existing technologies cheaper. The price of the Tomahawk missile went down from over $1 million to less than $250,000 when the old inertial sensor/tv-computer mapping system was replaced with a gps guidance system. Now most of the cost of one of those is just the engine. So we get smarter battlefield technologies for less money thanks to gps. Also THOR is a line of sight system is it not? Well, most preferred weapons can kill over the horizon....
Mike Lorrey