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lbendlin
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:38 pm    Post subject: Don't put all your navigation eggs in the GPS basket... Reply with quote

OK, it's a bit of a lame reference, and not news either. But nevertheless everybody needs to be prepared for the time when GPS is not available/not functioning etc.

Read the whole thing here.


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the tip off Lutz, but at my age
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Solar activity rises and falls in 11-year cycles with the next peak expected in 2011.
I may not be affected by the next one. Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:41 pm    Post subject: Re: Don't put all your navigation eggs in the GPS basket... Reply with quote

lbendlin wrote:
...nevertheless everybody needs to be prepared for the time when GPS is not available/not functioning...


Blokes like this sort of thing, It's like camping! We'll just get out a compas, and navigate using the stars!!!
Girls? Just find a good bloke!

DennisN wrote:
...I may not be affected by the next one...


Now thats just depressing...

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

so, what happened to all the planes in 2000? and 1989?

not that i'm sceptical or anything...

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MaFt wrote:
so, what happened to all the planes in 2000? and 1989?

not that i'm sceptical or anything...

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They issued sextants and maps. Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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They issued sextants and maps. Laughing
These Boys should have taken your advice, the worlds most expensive fighter aircraft in the world, and its computer code can't handle simple GPS data correctly, so its not just the weather on the sun that can affect things in the Earths atmosphere, stupid programmers can be just as effective! - Mike
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can understand the solar bursts as the sun and space can offer far bigger complications to our living, than anything the world has to offer, but to have the Lockheed’s new F-22 Raptor fighter plane disabled by a few lines of computer code, after spending billions of dollars is certainly alarming. It just shows that human error can be just as dangerous (if not more so, in our immediate day to day world) than anything space can offer.

I thought that before they tested in the real world they did simulated tests on all the computer programmes. Thankfully it had a safe landing.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oldboy wrote:
They issued sextants and maps. Laughing

However, the U.S Naval Academy have now stopped teaching the use of a sextant. I also seem to recall reading, but can't now find a reference to check my memory, that the UK military have also stopped teaching their navigators how to use a sextant.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The way I do it is to stop the van and ask somebody (even though I'm male). Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope, Compas & stars! Lets keep it simple.

Honestly, I only bought a GPS because it was a new toy to play with. Its good in many ways, but I don't rely on it.

As soon as we as a race of humans start relying on technology we'll be crashing our F22 raptors into the corner deli, left, right, and center.

Mine's still in the shop after I took out Milton keynes by mistake. :D
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mostdom wrote:
As soon as we as a race of humans start relying on technology we'll be crashing our F22 raptors into the corner deli, left, right, and center.


I already rely on technology Crying or Very sad
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