I watched a video on this recently. Really interesting, especially how the researchers figured out it was a Russian satellite in a really high orbit. All it takes is a low-power burst to overwhelm the GPS network because it runs on such low powered, sensitive signals. They theorize the Russians were testing for very brief windows to see how well it world work. They could jam these signals anywhere over the Earth. Same for other nations too.
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My dad w his drawer full of old road atlases: “WHATS UP NOW MOTHERFUCKERS!!?”
Digital maps would still work, you'd just have to know where you are. Just like old books
Like in the before time?
In the before times we barely had mobile phones to go with the digital maps. We were out there printing Mappy itineraries into a stack you'd better not lose
I actually considered getting a couple maps like that lol. Nostalgia, but also redundancy. Also it would be kind of funny to fold out one of those giant maps while everyone else just whips up google maps. We're going retro, bitches.
You have to get ones that used to be at rest areas and stuff that are comically large and impractical to use in a car. Much less try to fold.
I have two sets of these that I use. When one of them's for when I'm off road and off-grid and very little works. The other one so that way I can have my kids look at just general road atlases as we travel quite a bit they enjoy seeing and trying to find where we're at. They will come in handy in case of anything happening as far as connectivity and stuff like that.
Protip, you can use the app comaps on android. It downloads and stores the maps for the regions you want entirely offline. The off-road maps are stunning where I am, detail far beyond what google has
Store the maps in a laptop case so people think you are breaking out the pc.
Also I love maps and as a kid, in the 80s I had maps of just about everywhere, I collected park maps from all the places I hiked and had geological survey maps of the state I lived in. I kept all the maps in the back of my Datsun 510 station wagon. I got lost very often when driving but I would pull over a dig through the maps till I figured out where I was. I did have one of those big roll up maps that you see in old schools, where you could pull it down and it would roll itself back up, but it from the 40s and it's Africa so there is not any real information on it but it was fun to haul it out un roll it and say " nah I don't think that's it" and let it flap around as it rolls up.
I went looking for an image of my map, and found one. https://oldnewhouse.com/products/vintage-classroom-pull-down-map-of-africa-2196?srsltid=AfmBOoqDLztG46dLMq7Eh-hPMAtz0SEnlpnpdGQUu4GIuE5qwMe7MnqT
My map doesn't look as nice because someone kept it in the back of a Datsun station wagon and used it as a joke prop.
Most people don't know how unbelievably fucked the world would be if Russia did this on a consistent basis. The entire stock market runs on GPS for nanosecond timing of trades. Shipping, trucking, trains, planes all use GPS. Sure, all of them CAN operate without GPS, but the delays would be enormous because of how efficient GPS is and how automated a lot of things are. Communications systems use GPS for timing to sync up. Farms use GPS for accurate planting and picking of vegetables.
For the life of me, I don't understand why we as a species try so hard to make life worse for everyone.
Yes we all watched that Veritasium video.
I've actively avoided Veritasium since the lightyear long wire video, when he made claims that were proven wrong by numerous other channels and then doubled down on them. Then he sold out to private equity and YouTube has a hard on for pushing their videos in to my feed regardless of what I was just watching. I go so far as to scramble in to the room to change it if I'm just listening to the TV from another room to avoid having YouTube add that shit to my algorithm harder
Claire Saffitz? Veritasium is next. Scary Interesting? Fern next? No Veritasium. Fern? Veritasium. Veritasium videos from years ago you've already seen, why not. That fucking light-year video again, fuck you.
That said, EVEN I have seen that video.
I mean, he did say he sold out to private equity cause he wanted to retire basically. His channel is basically now his retirement investment
Words cant describe how much i despie terrorist "state" of russia
watch out, or you might be kicked off your instance :D
While certainly not all .ml users love russia, all russia lovers are in .ml.
Oft course thats not entirely true, but there are some weird communities there.
Trains don't need gps, do they?
I mean, neither do cars or planes.
“GPS” would mean GNSS satellite systems like GPS, as well as terrestrial systems like AGPS and base-station-based triangulation. Given that modern train control systems involve transponders alongside the railway line, these can be used as well. Railway lines running through tunnels in particular would rely on non-satellite systems.
Russia and Iran stole a drone a few years back. They did it by jamming and spoofing gps signals
But my phone has GLONASS too?
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