DOH!

Here’s how Times magazine sees yesterday’s Galileo GPS satellite launch: “... Galileo, designed to challenge the domination of the U.S. military's GPS …”

Now, their science writer — I would hope — wrote this, and it's still wrong.

We’ve been waiting for this to happen since back when OUR positioning sats were launched in the early 90s. There were supposed to be three systems: ours, the Russians and an Asian system. With the increasing use of GPS for everything from atomic clock timing to bank withdrawals and cellphone calling, we’d welcome ANYbody who will decrease the load.

It isn’t designed to challenge jack doo-doo. It is, was and will be designed to increase GPS coverage. Period.