On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 01:14:31 -0800, DarkMatter
<DarkMatter@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote:

} On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 22:26:45 -0800, "Ugly Bob" <ugly_bob42@hotmail.com>
} Gave us:
} 
} >
} >http://www.iridium.com/
} >
} 
}   Very cool stuff!  Thanks!
} 
} 
} >>   Well still have a LEO worldwide phone system in place.

It's what a lot of the satellite phones being used in the middle east
run on.

} >>   Yet another mistake was the killing of the particle accelerator in
} >> Texas.  They were nearly done with the damned thing.   Big mistake.

It would have cost more to finish than it would have cost to upgrade
existing accelerators, and wouldn't have been as powerful.