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Thursday, December 27, 2012

CHINA ACTIVATES "BEIDOU" G.P.S. SYSTEM,

ANNOUNCING THAT THE SATELLITE G.P.S. SYSTEM IS DESIGNED FOR COMMERCIAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND MILITARY PURPOSES.

In 2000 China launched it's first satellite (coincidentally one year prior to Nine-Eleven) and now orbits sixteen satellites.

Today China announced it has activated it's "Beidou" GPS system;   by 2020 China will have launched at least thirty-five satellites.

Perhaps it's time to take the unfailing advice found in Chinese restaurant fortune cookies:  "Learn to read and speak Chinese...."