A minute's silence for Ivan Getting?

[Skyva_2]

A minute\'s silence for Ivan Getting?

From today's Guardian:

Dr Ivan Getting, physicist and electrical engineer, inventor of GPS, died on October 11th, aged 91.

He developed the theoretical basis of GPS, microwave tracking AA in 1944 (which helped shoot down 95% of V1s), and worked on the Gemini and Mercury programmes, Stealth bomber, and Polaris. He was a Rhodes Scholar, etc, etc.

One of his major problems was convincing the Pentagon that GPS was practical and affordable!

What a debt we all owe to him. It makes you wonder what the conversations on this board would have been like without him......?



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[MainlySteam]

Re: A minute\'s silence for Ivan Getting?

He will probably need to know celestial where I trust he is now.

John

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[AndrewB]

GPS, good or bad?

An invention which has launched a vast armada onto the high seas, boats which would not be there but for that and the other recent developments of the communications revolution; and which in a decade has reduced all destinations to a homogenous cruising monoculture, thus destroying the most important reason for going in the first place.

 

[robp]

Re: GPS, good or bad?

<has reduced all destinations to a homogenous cruising monoculture>. Worse than that, the EU and Euro has done and will continue to do, for all cultures within Europe. Sailing or otherwise.

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[bob_tyler]

Re: A minute\'s silence for Ivan Getting?

Suspect "shooting down 95% of V1s" is a typical Grauniad misprint.

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