On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:46:51PM +0000, Amos Shapira wrote: > And how would having street names in Google Earth or Google Maps change the > situation?
It allows them to find out where the rocket hit by reading news reports and SMS's from people nearby. They use the "point and shoot" method of aiming. The rocket is loaded with enough fuel to go an approximate distance, aimed in the right direction and and angle and fired. When it hits, they use that to aim better. Knowing where it hit helps them aim better. During the first gulf war, people stopped reporting on where the scuds landed on mailing lists and Usenet because the information was used to aim them. This was not new even then, the Germans used it to aim V1 and V2 rockets. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
