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- From: dj@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
- Subject: Re: NASA experiment could save lives, time and money [Release 92-115] (Forwarded)
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- References: <1992Jul20.174736.11820@news.arc.nasa.gov> <7862@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 18:35:25 GMT
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- In article <7862@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> francis@cs.adelaide.edu.au writes:
- >
- >The sudden availability of lots of emergency beacons will almost certainly
- >result in lots more false, maliciously false and prankster alarms.
-
- Maybe its not as bad as your gut reaction would lead you to believe. By
- definition this system would be oriented to areas where there are few
- people. Pranksters are unlikely to journey to a wilderness area just to
- get their jollies. Calls identified as coming from relatively populated
- areas could be dispatched to local authorities, who would deal with
- false alarms in the usual way. When you pickup a signal from the North
- Slope, you can be pretty sure it's genuine. If it's 50 miles from
- Anchorage, you leave it to the local people who know if it's near a road
- or not and can act accordingly. It's not like a malicious distress
- call: the search area will be small and easy to locate. Come to think
- of it, we've had radios for long enough that rescue operations will be
- used to a certain amount of background noise from cranks.
-
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- ||))) They will cancel it - Field of Dweebs. )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))|
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