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Astronaut accidently calls 911 from space



Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> writes:

> I was disappointed that it was just a misdial.  I was looking forward
> to how IP geolocation worked with 9-1-1 calls from space.  I always
> wondered how that altitude parameter in 911 packets was used. :-)

Response time would have been slightly longer than the average 7 minutes
too...  And probably the single data point would have skewed the average
afterward.

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