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The Layout Of The Global Navigation Satellite ... Design proposal: 24 satellites Finished time: 1995. ...

Microsoft GPS - New Global Positioning Satellite Systems ... The nature of the GPS device, or the Global Positioning Satellite as it is actually called, is that it is a very advanced navigation system based on satellite communication made possible for the US Defense Military, thereafter the US public and other citizens of the world once it was recognized as being useful for public use...

GPS Navigation Systems Have Come A Long Way ... Garmin GPS Navigation Systems http://www. GpsFrontier.com 04/05/09...

Global Warming And Alternate Energy Source ... This technique can also be used in homes, because studies have shown that this can reduce the heating requirements by as much as 80% of the cost. This means that you do not have to activate the air conditioner or heating so often, and if everyone does that, we don't consume that much electricity which we get from non-renewable resources...

UN Warn Us: Global Flood Threat Is Rising ... For example, you can see below a map of our world with icons showing the locations of floods observed by NASA satellites between April and June 2004. You can find the clickable version of this map at the  Natural Hazards Flood Page maintained by NASA's Earth Observatory....

The Sage of Toronto ... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a “global village” instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle’s present vulgarity.
—Guy Debord (b. 1931)

For a parent, it’s hard to recognize the significance of your work when you’re immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we run the bath water or spread the peanut butter on the bread, proclaim proudly, “I’m making my contribution to the future of the planet.” But with the exception of global hunger, few jobs in the world of paychecks and promotions compare in significance to the job of parent.
—Joyce Maynard (20th century)

The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.
—Renata Adler (b. 1938)