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Amnesia10
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timark_uk
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm
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Location: Belfast
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So all the GPS systems will now be off target.
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Location: behind the sofa
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The GPS coordinates will be correct. It's the maps that need updating; even the good old paper maps will now be wrong. _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
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I'd imagine that accurate cartography is fairly low on the list of '[LIFTED] that needs sorting' in Christchurch, however.
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Nick
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:36 pm
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Location: Portsmouth
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F*ck - it moved the satellites too?   _________________
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timark_uk
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All the land based GPS markers will have moved, so that doesn't have a relationship with GPS co-ordinates?
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Nick
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What do you mean "land based GPS markers" - do you mean for TomToms etc??
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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This is not something I've ever thought about. I guess they need fixed reference points? Fixed points on a planet where all the plates keep shifting is a rather impermanent concept! _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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l3v1ck
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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I though all coordinates were base on the central meridian than runs through Greenwich, ie Zero degrees.
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Amnesia10
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It also depends on the direction of the movement.
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AlunD
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They just need the all blacks scrum to push a little and it will all be back to normal 
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big_D
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Location: Bramsche
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A 7.1 quake? Any idea what that is on the Richter scale? I don't uderstand the new scale, other than an earthquake seems to be a couple of points higher on this new scale...
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