Rapid Fire 12/​17/​05

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1. rutty says:

   December 17, 2005 at 8:04 pm

   If I’m not mis­taken, NASA has been releas­ing two-​​line ele­ment sets for the SGP4 proa­ga­tor for all of these satel­lites for a long time. What’s the big deal about some lovey-​​dovey sci­en­tists putting it into a spread­sh­het? I’ll bet thou­sands of amat­uer astronomers have already made their own and some prbobaly post them on the web.

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2. Dfens says:

   December 19, 2005 at 5:53 pm

   In gen­eral I do not sup­port this blog’s lib­eral defeatist polit­i­cal bent. Putting pol­i­tics before coun­try in time of war is con­tept­able. If, how­ever, you’re inter­ested in a thought­ful per­spec­tive on the retire­ment of the F-​​14 you might find this use­ful: http://​www​.flightjour​nal​.com/​f​j​/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​s​/​f​1​4​f​1​8​/​f​1​4​f​1​8​_​1​.​asp

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