Thread: Bye, bye Loran
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Default Bye, bye Loran

On 4/4/10 12:17 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 04/04/2010 7:58 AM, hk wrote:

Killing Loran-C will save the government $190 million over five years,
Obama said. But supporters of Loran -- including the man known as "the
father of GPS" -- say the nation's increasing reliance on GPS
paradoxically has increased the importance of maintaining Loran as a
backup.


Somehow Obama is being a real jerk in insulting our intelligence. Even
if we are gullable to believe it costs $190 million over 5 years to
keep, lets do some math.


You don't even have a boat...


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