Re: Galileo "Stupid," Says EU Commissioner
- From: Happy Trails <nomail@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:25:39 -0400
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:00:41 GMT, Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Galileo "Stupid," Says EU Commissioner
Verheugen told the press, "I fully disagree, fully disagree, that
Galileo is the most important project of European space policy. It is
a project of traffic infrastructure. The GMES (the EU's major project
on Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) is definitely more
important than Galileo, as it offers a huge range of operations,
whereas Galileo can only do one thing - help you to navigate, nothing
else. In this sense, Galileo is in a certain way a stupid system."
Probably lost something in the translation. "Dumm" can mean "simple" -
or it can mean "stupid" - somebody's speech writer/translator screwed
up!
What really is STUPID is the idea that Galileo might somehow be made
into a viable commercial enterprise when GPS, and possibly some
others, are free to use, actually exist today, and can offer every
function, feature and level of accuracy dreamed about by the
supporters of Galileo.
It's funny that this squarehead suggests that the money might be
better spent on environmental issues - he must be reading my old posts
in this forum, hahaha. Maybe I should run for a position on the EU
Commission.
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