Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!cca!ima!haddock!stevel From: stevel@haddock.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: several Message-ID: <228@haddock.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 23:40:55 EDT Article-I.D.: haddock.228 Posted: Wed Aug 15 23:40:55 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 02:13:13 EDT Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:sri-arpa:-1232300:haddock:16000014:000:541 Nf-From: haddock!stevel Aug 15 12:05:00 1984 Geostar and ELT are not the same or even comparable systems. Geostar tells you where you are if you ask it. ELT tells other people where you are when it thinks you are in trouble. ELT works when you are lying unconcious after a crash. Geostar probably will be broken and if it does work you won't be awake to ask it where you are and how far you have to walk to reach civilazation when you wake up. A great concept is a crash hardend, i.e. expensive, Geostar/ELT device that tells the Geostar main computer that something has happened.