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Re: [OM] Beware of Geeks... Part Two

Subject: Re: [OM] Beware of Geeks... Part Two
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:51:14 -0500
Imagine now a space war with China or whomever... all GPS satellites 
blown out of the sky.

Chuck Norcutt


On 1/19/2012 2:26 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> Everybody is afraid of airplanes falling out of the sky from this, but
> it's actually even more critical in two different areas:
>
> 1.Telecommunications. All of our synchronous networks are carefully
> timed. The vast majority of the networks are times off of GPS signals.
> Interference caused drift will bring a network down hard. Kiss your
> telephones (and cellphones) goodbye when this happens.
>
> 2.Surveying. There are legal implications to this which would easily
> trump that 2.9 Billion dollar investment. I can't imagine what
> nightmares hide behind that curtain.
>
> AG
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