Richard Easton

#GPS - I just heard from my publisher that a paperback edition of my book “GPS Declassified” will be published next spring.

See this for the details behind the spread spectrum signal used in GPS. minghsiehece.usc.edu/wp-content/upl… Pete Wilhelm and Lee Hammarstrom told me that when my father proposed a GPS type of system in 1964, they were skeptical because the atomic cloaks needed to be improved by several orders of magnitude. Dad pushed the technology which made GPS possible.

@RDEIL @frankysjersey @fantasticarg3 @youtakeyourseat @UsingLyft The early foundation of what became it was based off frequency hopping technology. Although it wasn’t directly used, the patented system is the foundational basis of modern spread-spectrum wireless technology, with GPS and wi-fi being amongst those tech.

Even Alex Pretti?

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@Infiniksy @frankysjersey @fantasticarg3 @youtakeyourseat @UsingLyft The development of the spread spectrum used by GPS is complex.

@Infiniksy @frankysjersey @fantasticarg3 @youtakeyourseat @UsingLyft The development in the 1960s of what became GPS is traced in these slides by Lee Hammarstrom.

Anybody that thinks this footage was faked in the early 70s is not credible

I took this picture in February.

@gtazz99 @elonmusk I’ll be happy to provide details about this.

@gtazz99 @elonmusk My father designed TWO space tracking systems. They’re based on the globe.

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@andy_schreiber @TheFollowingPro @LeaderJohnThune 50 plus the VP.

@TheFollowingPro @LeaderJohnThune I'm for whatever gets the threshold needed to pass it to 50 or 51. (Majority would be 51, I believe.)

ONE MAN decides if the SAVE America Act passes. @LeaderJohnThune If he strictly enforces the 2-Speech Limit, it passes. If he does not. It dies. John Thune needs to know that Americans realize this. He needs to know that his legacy is FOREVER TIED to this bill. If it passes, he is a legend. Forever. If it dies, he is a dismal failure. Forever. No "budget reconciliations" to get the vote to 50 which would bloat the deficit and/or be rejected under the Byrd Rule. No invoking cloture to "get Democrats on the record." That is all utter nonsense. Strictly enforce the 2-speech rule for bills returning to the Senate. That is all that needs doing. If Senators and the public share the message that SAVE America, for better or worse, is his legacy he will come around.

When my father was inducted into the American Philosophical Society in 1998, it was full of notable people. I noticed over the following decade that the new people were mostly unimpressive academics. Their main focus appeared to be getting their friends inducted. Feynman talked about this…Peer review by friends/fellow travelers is useless.

@RDEIL @RogerPielkeJr Thank you for sharing your experience. It's crazy to me that the people who say that climate science is a settled science often refer to the peer-reviewed aspect. Yet, maybe Michael E. Mann is the most peer-reviewed of all climate scientists?

Update: After speaking to Univ of Colorado Conference of World Affairs I understand that Mann objected to me appearing & my panel was deleted CWA assured me that they want me there and speaking on climate Stay tuned . . . Ain’t no politics pettier than academic politics 🤣

I used GPS in 2017 to drive to a nephew’s wedding in rural Vermont. Five hours later, I couldn’t get it to work, a common problem in hilly terrain, and I reached a T in the road. I needed to head east to get onto the interstate. I looked at the sun which in late afternoon would be to the SW and turned right. All was well as I came across the highway and drove back to my hotel. In spite of having co-written a book about GPS, I use whatever is available for navigation.

@ShellySidd70273 @NewEmergingKing You can't teach that. My dad always knew which way was north. I, however, cannot and still celebrate the invention of the GPS. I can sing a "D", and I can mentally "see" in 3D but I can't imagine a shape pointing north.

Most people couldn’t tell you where they are on the road without their phone. That’s a problem. Teaching these boys how to use mile markers so they’re never guessing. One day, their wife and kids could depend on it.

Peer review aids group think. I published a paper in a peer reviewed journal. I had fights with the peer reviewer and suspect it was because I criticized an article reviewed by this person. Implicitly I was calling the peer reviewer incompetent. Fortunately, I was not an academic and didn’t need the credential of having peer reviewed papers.

@RDEIL @RogerPielkeJr But Michael E. Mann has been peer-reviewed many times. What does that tell you?

@DerrickEvans4WV I discussed the connection between Project Vanguard and GPS on WABC. thespaceshow.com/show/06-dec-20…

@DerrickEvans4WV Lee Hammarstrom gave a good summary of the origins of GPS in the 1960s.

I had no idea that GPS signals are free worldwide & were funded by U.S. taxpayers at roughly $2 billion/year.

@matthew_elliott 1979 GAO Report - GPS is a DoD project not NASA.

Welfare spending is rising by £18bn this year. That’s about the same as NASA’s annual budget. NASA is literally sending people around the Moon this year. And it gave us GPS, satellite forecasting and smartphone camera tech. I wonder what affect the UK’s additional £18bn welfare spend will have?

The Government announced £1bn this week to incentivise businesses to get young people into work, but the Spring Statement forecast an extra £8bn on welfare on non-pension related welfare. An extra £1bn to help people get into work and £8bn helping people stay out of work. The Government should be spending less money to achieve Net zero and investing more money to reach NEET-zero.