The frequency and structure of GPS messages are well documented. I can't see where it would be difficult to build such a transmitter.
Unless the military upgrades their signal to some sort of broadband, frequency-hopping, encrypted stuff, this WILL happen again.

Portuguese and british were masters of Ded (deduced) reckoning much before the term was even invented. Humans can do that. Why computers can't?

Documentation should exist. And should cover those unfamiliar situations.
Ergo any good admin should be an habitué at manual reading, then he/she would be able to solve any unfamiliar examples.

Or, how the heck should one work on a remote server over a 500ms ping-time satellite connection??? Remote desktop?

Have you ever heard of isometrics?
I heard from a friend that did for a while that it works wonders for strenght building.
also strenghten your blood vessels and improves overall well-being.
Sure it also improves shape, but that is a side benefit.

Also what assures me that there is actually a spaceship on lunar orbit or mars orbit or a rover on the surface of mars or the moon, or wherever?
That could also be doctored. The deserts we see there could be anywhere uninhabited on earth, line the Atacama desert, or places in Morocco or somewhere else...
(not that I believe that sh!t either)

Easy,
just set the primary channel to use $AGENCY key while secondary (and other channels) to use $OTHER_AGENCY key. Duh.
Then, just make it SOP to transmit on primary while on $AGENCY bussiness and secondary while on cooperative work.

I guess they meant IR lasers. IIRc, the laser is used to measure window pane displacement, caused by by sound waves emanating from you keyboard. Ah, in another /. post today they talk about the comeback of the IBM type M keyboard. With that, you might use regular microphone =]

Not DNA per se, but each have their own mineral (or chemical, or magnetic) signature that allows one to tell its lineage, and even predict how it's going to "evolve".

Just ask a geologist.

BTW, Geology Rocks.

Did you use the --force option? (I really mean it)

There is make-googleearth-package in debian testing. Although that is the name of the program, not the package itself.
You might want to check it out. Altough the software says that it supports GE4.3, I did build GE5.0 ant it runs.

Low and medium level waste is to be disposed of at a site in Carlsbad, NM. It is called Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - WIPP. Site here: http://www.wipp.energy.gov/
IIRC, they are open to (scheduled) visits.
Basically, it's a salt mine that doesn't produce any salt.

There used to be a script somewhere that you could use to update you view from time to time. I used to do that, including satellite trajectories. The picture was the placed into the root window. My laptop still has it. It's nice.