GPS System To Fail Within a Year

[dmex]

The Global Positioning System faces the possibility of failures and blackouts, a federal watchdog agency has warned the U.S. Congress. Mismanagement by and underinvestment by the U.S. Air Force places GPS at risk of failure in 2010 and beyond. The problem: Delays in launching replacement satellites, among other things.

GPS System To Fail Within a Year - Business Center - PC World

 

[Captain Zero]

And the upcoming cycle of solar storms will really knock out the grid.

 

[fakeasdf]

SOB, how am I s'posed to go geo caching?

And the upcoming cycle of solar storms will really knock out the grid.

Heh, 2012, The end of the Mayan Calendar! X-files predicted a mass invasion in the year of 2012!

 

[tangcla]

What's the point of geocaching if you can't reference it with a GPS

 

[xan K]

What's the point of geocaching if you can't reference it with a GPS

that would be just a simple map.

 

[sgssgs]

LOL! 2012, The end of the Mayan Calendar! Think about it. It you made a Calendar. How many years would you include. You Can't add all the years
to it. Your stone tablet would run out of space to write on. Even with a computer, you would have to stop somewhere.

 

[12eason]

Gps is dead, long live gps.

The European Union believes that Galileo will be ready for commercial testing in 2008. A globally available positioning service is planned to come online in 2010, when Galileo will span across 30 satellites.

 

[dmex]

LOL! 2012, The end of the Mayan Calendar! Think about it. It you made a Calendar. How many years would you include. You Can't add all the years
to it. Your stone tablet would run out of space to write on. Even with a computer, you would have to stop somewhere.

Personal computers where created in the early 1990's and they couldn't use dates above 1999 without major difficulties Im glad to see they adjusted the date to 2099 but you would think they would adjust the time-range with each new system built instead of making another Year 2099K bug all over again :huh:

 

[abuttino]

uhh....

The DoD uses this for missle and aeronautics. The Airlines use it, and it's got too many uses to go down.

I have serious doubts they will let that program expire.

Way to go america! Bidding low bites again.

 

[Lebon14]

And the upcoming cycle of solar storms will really knock out the grid.

The sun operates on an 11-year cycle, with the next "active" phase due in 2012 likely to present the nearest danger

I don't remember anything happening in the last solar storm which was in 2001. Maybe an hotter summer but nothing else...

 

[Adamd]

Personal computers where created in the early 1990's and they couldn't use dates above 1999 without major difficulties Im glad to see they adjusted the date to 2099 but you would think they would adjust the time-range with each new system built instead of making another Year 2099K bug all over again :huh:

Well lets hope we are not using the same kind of computers we are now in 2099 lol.

I am sure that problem will not come up again