{"id":4059,"date":"2005-12-28T17:46:16","date_gmt":"2005-12-28T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/galileo.html"},"modified":"2005-12-28T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2005-12-28T17:46:16","slug":"galileo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/science\/galileo.html","title":{"rendered":"Galileo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 238px; HEIGHT: 248px\" height=\"248\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/msnbc\/Components\/Photos\/051228\/051228_galileo_hmed_530a.hmedium.jpg\" width=\"238\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" \/>If the <country-region w:st=\"on\"><place w:st=\"on\">United States<\/place><\/country-region> ever has a war with a country that depends on GPS for weapon accuracy we would win as we are able to selectively turn GPS off if needed. The <country-region w:st=\"on\"><place w:st=\"on\">US<\/place><\/country-region> owns the satellites after all. If the Europeans or others want a fighting chance they would have to spend billions to come up with a competitor to GPS technology currently in use. Guess what\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/10625864\/\">They just did<\/a>. Comforting thought, right?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the United States ever has a war with a country that depends on GPS for weapon accuracy we would win as we are able to selectively turn GPS off if needed. The US owns the satellites after all. If the Europeans or others want a fighting chance they would have to spend billions to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[675,676,677],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}