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more about #governmentwaste more comments → Novaload: Maybe Hubble can get an add-on that will actually look down upon you and give you some real time directions. Hey, it could generate big bucks for NASA... more » SeanKHotay: Soccer moms and UPS drivers everywhere will be left aimlessly wandering the nations streets... The new winos.... BTW, don't forget the 2010 Census fol... more » Elhigh: I am completely secure in my manhood. You don't like it if I have to ask directions? Piss off. I'm turned around and I'll do what it takes to get stra... more » Elhigh: Navnarok! AAIIEEE! The sky is falling! ...no. No, it isn't. That's just people's reliance on electronic crutches for competence. more » engineerd: Wow, so much hate for GPS. While I agree with the sentiment that it has made many drivers lazy and distracted, I think that we are missing the forest... more » s13james: As far as the military is concerned, I don't believe they use civilian GPS satellites so it may not be a concern to them at all. more » scroggzilla raids again: ha ha....HA! HA! HA!....you all said I was a fool when I bought those Hagstrom maps.....buy a sat nav, you said....wave of the future, you said....BWA... more » sos10: I miss some info here: the latest satellite to be put in orbit for GOS was launched in March 2008, so it is not completely true that they are not doin... more » Captain Liverspots: That's a shame and all, but if it means that Tard in the shitbox RAV4 I follow into work most mornings won't be able to fiddle with the satnav at eve... more » Dr. H. F. Danger: I would also like to add that I drove from Massachusetts to Louisiana with some quick directions printed and a couple paper maps to double-check or do... more » Dr. H. F. Danger: I have always believed that using a GPS makes you locationally retarded. It only way to learn how to get around is by trial and error. I look up my de... more » Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig): I've been relying on my Gonadial Position System for about 20 years now, and it rarely fails. All you do is go some place with a map, drive/walk aroun... more » internal: "The first replacement was scheduled to launch in 2007 but was placed in orbit in November of last year, nearly a three year delay." That is some seri... more » -
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GPS Satellite System In Danger Of Failing
According to a report in The Guardian, the US Global Positioning System is in such a state of disrepair, it's in danger of rolling blackouts or failure as early as 2010. GPSpocalypse? Paper Mapageddon?
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