Branson Says He'll Buy The Complete GPS Satellite System

RobBrady

Sir Richard Branson stunned an invited audience of the tech world's glitterati today at the CTIA Wireless Show in Las Vegas during his pre-show speech.

He announced that he is heading a private interest consortium that consists of himself, Bill Gates and the World's richest man, Warren Buffet, and is in "advanced talks" with the US Government to buy the complete US GPS Satellite System.

He stated that he has also put in a bid for the emerging European, Chinese and Russian systems. He said "these systems, owned by differing governments, are a problem waiting to happen". He continued "wars we will centred around the information carried by these satellites, so industry cannot trust the governments with such valuable assets".

When pressed for further comment, Sir Richard replied with "watch this space".
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walrus231 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 08, 2006 Posts: 1

RIGHT I BELIEVE IT!!

Hmmm OH WAIT !!

What Day Is IT ??????

I Am Not 2B Fooled
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April 1 Is That U ?

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oddsock · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:46 am Post subject:

Perhaps he needs to track the Penguins that were flying in a BBC report this morning Laughing

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GPS_fan · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:52 am Post subject:

No, it's so that he can use an airline form of TMC to ensure his planes don't go near Terminal 5 Laughing

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jonandmarkuk · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:16 am Post subject:

Get a feeling this is an April fools

GPS_fan · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:19 am Post subject:

Ya don't say Rolling Eyes

Alas, Terminal 5 was a premature April fool which will take BA a little while to recover from Twisted Evil

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GPS_fan · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:21 am Post subject:

A stroke of genius on Branson's part - he can then rent the technology to his rival (BA) so that they can track those thousands of items of luggage Cool

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Darren · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:33 pm Post subject:

And for anyone who is still in any doubt about this:

April Fool
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bedbug · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:56 pm Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:53 pm Post subject:

3 in one day, you lucky lucky people!

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mostdom · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject:

Bet it diddn't fool Andy_P2002. He's far to quick for that!
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RobBrady · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:49 am Post subject:

The highlight of my day in CTIA today was Richard Branson (who arrived in a hot air balloon at the Palms Hotel) coming up with his own April Fool during his keynote speech.

He coolly announced a Virgin joint venture with Google, called Virgle. He said he wanted to put 30 humans and a selection of animals on a Noah's Ark type spaceship and send it to Mars. This got the desired whoops and cheers from the audience.

Totally straight-faced, he then asked for volunteers, who would be brave enough to undertake the trip, to join him on the stage and was immediately swamped by dozens of people!
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mostdom · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:50 am Post subject:

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