GPS Weakening?

[sweech]

Heard about this on the radio this morning and had to check it out.

http://esciencenews.com/sources/the.guardian.science/2009/05/19/gps.system.close.breakdown

[-cheeto-]

Just adds to the challenge…

Woah, deja vu

[gotta run]

You are now entering the Twilight Zone of redundant topic threads…

On the Left Side of the Road...

[-cheeto-]

And they’re being sent to me via email to…

Here was my email response on the subject:

Sounds like news coverage hysteria to me. My guess is this story was a big ploy to get private industry to start funding new replacement satellites. You don’t think that all these GPS manufacturers will just sit and let their businesses go out do you? And I highly doubt the military will sit and do nothing either. Perhaps our economic recovery bill should have included a handful of new satellites to be built and launched… my guess is that this will spark even more accurate technology to be launched into space which will mean that alex’s coords will get better on his new caches 😉

[-cheeto-]

and the reason it’s duplicated is probably that many people ignore the off-topic board altogether… (I don’t blame them, nothing good ever comes from that thread…)

and it would seem this topic is definitely not Off-topic..

[gotta run]

@-cheeto- wrote:

Perhaps our economic recovery bill should have included a handful of new satellites to be built and launched…

The more pertinent issue is how many MPG these new satellites will get.

On the Left Side of the Road...

[sweech]

Sorry, didn’t realize this was in off-topic…

Continue with your regularly scheduled break from work, procrastination cruise of the forums. 😆

[furfool]

I agree with Cheeto. I think there is a lot more to lose economically if the satellites aren’t replaced. I think you will see private industry kick in monetarily along with foreign nations. I just hope it won’t require a converter box. 🙄

[Sparse Grey Hackle]

@silent sweech wrote:

Sorry, didn’t realize this was in off-topic…
😆

Don’t fret sweech, to paraphrase the late (great) Janis Joplin (Me And Bobby McGee) because by nature the internet is redundant.

The internet is just another word for nothing that is new,
Nothing don’t mean nothing honey it’s all redundant, now now.
And the feeling of blogging and posting was easy, when you have connectivity,
You know 3G was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.

La la la, la la la la, la la la, la la la la
La la la la la Bobby McGee.
Off-topic.
La la la la la, la la la la la
La la la la la, Bobby McGee, la.
Off-topic.

[refelo]

Don’t fret sweech, to paraphrase the late (great) Janis Joplin (Me And Bobby McGee) because by nature the internet is redundant.

Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.

La la la la la, Bobby McGee, la.
Off-topic.

Don’t you mean me and my BLONDIE McBee? 🙄

I love a classic rock kinda geo guy.
“Jumpin’ Jack Flash, grab the cache, cache, cache!”

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