The bottle has a transmitter and a GPS in it, it transmits it's current coordinates to a reciever (They want cell phones to be able to do this to locate stolen phones), then the human trackers use a GPS to come find you
Just imagine if the feds planted one of these on your car
On 25 Jul 2001, at 9:05, Florian wrote:
I don't get it. The article says "the spotters come to you because inside the special bottle is ... a GPS satellite transmitter." What are they talking about? Sounds more like an emergency locator transmitter maybe?
-Florian
http://www.stargazer.org/geocaching/
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