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Post by ka9q on Oct 4, 2010 13:42:23 GMT -4
Anybody know how many bytes a GPS receiver needs to compute a position? The formulas are in the GPS interface specification document ICD-200, which is in the public domain. The trick is not doing the calculations once, but in doing them repeatedly and fast enough to be useful.
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Post by ka9q on Oct 4, 2010 13:46:29 GMT -4
yet HBs continue to insist that a supercomputer would have been needed to navigate to the Moon. To be fair, some pretty serious computing was required to navigate the Apollo missions to the moon and back. It simply wasn't done on board; that job was handled by a room full of IBM mainframes at Mission Control called the Real Time Computer Complex (RTCC). The result were "burn pads" that were frequently read up to the crew. Each "pad" was a list of numbers describing some maneuver, be it a routine mid-course correction, lunar orbit insertion, or an abort and return to earth. Practice was to ensure that the crew always had an abort pad on board that could be used if communications were lost. The Apollo onboard computers, as advanced as they were for their day, were only digital autopilots.
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Post by AtomicDog on Oct 4, 2010 16:32:35 GMT -4
Rodin just played the "whistleblower" card!
...time to take a drink.
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Post by abaddon on Oct 4, 2010 17:05:40 GMT -4
Rodin just played the "whistleblower" card! ...time to take a drink. It's worse than that. Quoting Rodin: "Am hams may be specially selected or fed signals from - whatever. " He is no longer even attempting a rational argument.
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Post by blackstar on Oct 4, 2010 17:28:38 GMT -4
Rodin just played the "whistleblower" card! ...time to take a drink. It's worse than that. Quoting Rodin: "Am hams may be specially selected or fed signals from - whatever. " He is no longer even attempting a rational argument. He has a fixed viewpoint so everything must bend to that, even if he has no clue how any particular piece of evidence could be explained away; but of course we're the close minded blinkered ones.
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Post by cos on Oct 4, 2010 18:52:56 GMT -4
Aaargh!!! I went to the Icke forum. I should have known better. So many ignorant people in one place and all unable to string a coherent argument together but aggressively convinced they are right. However, it seems that a few people are prepared to take them on in their own den (is it too quiet these days over here?). Amusingly this results in the HB's stomping off when they have been thoroughly humiliated. Nice to see their rubbish being countered wherever it is posted.
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Post by supermeerkat on Oct 4, 2010 19:03:31 GMT -4
Huh. I guess the numerous companies actually called Nemesis and not based in Greece would blow his tiny little mind then.... Also, Nemesis is an English word. The Greek version is Νέμεσις, which doesn't look much like Siemens to me. I'm going to use that, if you don't mind.......
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 4, 2010 19:24:13 GMT -4
Is truegroup a member here by another name?
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Post by randombloke on Oct 4, 2010 19:39:35 GMT -4
Huh. I guess the numerous companies actually called Nemesis and not based in Greece would blow his tiny little mind then.... Also, Nemesis is an English word. The Greek version is Νέμεσις, which doesn't look much like Siemens to me. I'm going to use that, if you don't mind....... Go ahead. Just run a google search on "Nemesis Inc." or similar. At least one of them is a Miami office supplies wholesaler, IIRC. Also, I just got to see how this board treats Greek characters...escaped HTML entities? Really?
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Post by slang on Oct 4, 2010 20:37:39 GMT -4
Isn't "Ick!" an expression of disgust in English? If so, why is anyone surprised to be disgusted when going there?
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 4, 2010 20:41:26 GMT -4
I'm going to use that, if you don't mind....... Go ahead. Just run a google search on "Nemesis Inc." or similar. At least one of them is a Miami office supplies wholesaler, IIRC. Also, I just got to see how this board treats Greek characters...escaped HTML entities? Really? In "Dictionary of Word Origins" Nemesis see nomad
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Post by Count Zero on Oct 4, 2010 22:49:32 GMT -4
In "Dictionary of Word Origins" Nemesis see nomad Approves.
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Post by gillianren on Oct 4, 2010 23:47:04 GMT -4
It's worse than that. Quoting Rodin: "Am hams may be specially selected or fed signals from - whatever. " He is no longer even attempting a rational argument. Rational argument? That's only barely a rational sentence.
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Post by Count Zero on Oct 4, 2010 23:51:25 GMT -4
Isn't "Ick!" an expression of disgust in English? If so, why is anyone surprised to be disgusted when going there? ToSeeked
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Post by Apollo Gnomon on Oct 5, 2010 0:03:29 GMT -4
Like moonman and the "what keeps the vacuum from leaking into Earth's atmosphere" question alll over again....
This is brucel's contribution to the unified field theory:
Quote: Originally Posted by frenat View Post Trap sunlight? Separate moon gravity from zero G? I thought the ignorance couldn't get worse. I was wrong. Mind if I borrow some quotes for a humorous signature file? --- Brucel reply: laugh all you want, this does not disprove its existence.. is moon gravity THE SAME as space the answer is undoubtly no! so-why then, there cannot be a barrier seperating the two ??
Quote: Originally Posted by apollo_gnomon View Post Because that's not how the universe works!! My god, you're reinventing both newtonian and einstieinian physics!! ----- Brucel reply: would not be the first time, we still have an 'unproven theory' of man walking on the moon.. i also theorise moon gravity is greater than what nasa astronomers prophesize it to be how else could we explain it's magnetic pull on ocean tides all the moon craters pulling-on nearby flying objects that would have otherwise crash landed on earth...there's alot nasa is not telling us...
i feel everything coming out of nasa is the opposite...hence, moonhoax.
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