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Eric Gisse
On Jan 26, 6:06 am, "Paul B. Andersen"
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Simple - he found a page giving a good overview of how the system
works, but which happens to leave out some of the minutia which
includes relativity. He concludes that GR isn't in the GPS because the
writings of a hobbyist incorrectly attributed [by wubby] to Garmin do
not mention relativity.
When called upon the overall stupidity of the claim, or on little
details like how the page he cited mentions that GPS time has to be
accurate to within 200ns for the system to work, he snips everything
and runs away in a squid spray of insults and stupidity.
When asked to explain why all the published documentation on the
system disagree with him, he comes up equally empty.
[...]
The engineers building the GPS-satellites are obviously smart
enough to build them according to the specification.
So what exactly are you referring to?
Simple - he found a page giving a good overview of how the system
works, but which happens to leave out some of the minutia which
includes relativity. He concludes that GR isn't in the GPS because the
writings of a hobbyist incorrectly attributed [by wubby] to Garmin do
not mention relativity.
When called upon the overall stupidity of the claim, or on little
details like how the page he cited mentions that GPS time has to be
accurate to within 200ns for the system to work, he snips everything
and runs away in a squid spray of insults and stupidity.
When asked to explain why all the published documentation on the
system disagree with him, he comes up equally empty.