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Ste
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27th Feb 09 at 03:56   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Cool little project the BBC have going. They have placed a GPS logger in a shipping container and are monitoring it's location for one year. It has circled the globe so far.

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whats the purpose of this??
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No Top Gear so the license fee has to be spent elsewhere, seeing as how they got told off for spending it on lavish parties and company exec wages
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It makes good TV. The Britain from the Air series was interesting and I can see this being done in a similar vein.
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According to the website the container is paying for itself.

[Edited on 27-02-2009 by MarkM]

 
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