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<blockquote data-quote="p238shooter" data-source="post: 4187010" data-attributes="member: 24583"><p>Pretty nifty. Seems it is a good start, but most likely will have some improvements before it is ready for prime time. Yep unfortunately many people will manufacture in their minds ways to get offended with what ever words or numbers might be used.</p><p></p><p>It is concerning that many parts of using this system is GPS dependent. Seems way too many of our essential navigation items, aviation, shipping, driving, many others are putting all their eggs in one GPS basket with no backups in case someone or some country who owns the majority of the GPS satellites decided to flip off that switch. (Hint, most GPS sats are not USA owned)</p><p></p><p>In most cases the old standby individual terrestrial navigation systems are being decommissioned, phased out, and shut down, like VOR aircraft navigation systems for example.</p><p></p><p>Guess we will go back to the days of compass and stopwatch where we started if that were to happen. I do hope I am not at 36,000 ft and fogged over on the ground where we might be landing at that time.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for posting this. I will research more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="p238shooter, post: 4187010, member: 24583"] Pretty nifty. Seems it is a good start, but most likely will have some improvements before it is ready for prime time. Yep unfortunately many people will manufacture in their minds ways to get offended with what ever words or numbers might be used. It is concerning that many parts of using this system is GPS dependent. Seems way too many of our essential navigation items, aviation, shipping, driving, many others are putting all their eggs in one GPS basket with no backups in case someone or some country who owns the majority of the GPS satellites decided to flip off that switch. (Hint, most GPS sats are not USA owned) In most cases the old standby individual terrestrial navigation systems are being decommissioned, phased out, and shut down, like VOR aircraft navigation systems for example. Guess we will go back to the days of compass and stopwatch where we started if that were to happen. I do hope I am not at 36,000 ft and fogged over on the ground where we might be landing at that time. Thanks for posting this. I will research more. [/QUOTE]
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