Funny, I don't see GPS on the list. Airplanes flew before GPS, they'll fly after it.
There's always VOR/NDB/ILS, etc.
Posted on 03/08/2019 7:02:08 PM PST by cba123
Don't look now, but there's another Y2K-like computer-calendar problem on the way, and this one arrives in just one month: April 6, 2019.
(Excerpt) Read more at tomsguide.com ...
I remember everyone was all concerned at Y2K.
Not sure this is as big. But then again, I don't think anywhere NEAR as many people are concerned about this.
Just to note.
I doubt if it will be a problem. And I co-wrote a book on GPS which predates Miller’s by three years (GPS Declassified).
Will there be a made for TV movie? I liked the one on Y2K. An airliner and panicky passengers in the air but cannot tell where and how to land due to blacked out computers in plane and on ground at airport. Good scenes.
Today the key scenes would be girl trying to contact guy on Facebook and Twitter but shut off and then comes back on and now uncovers that he has been two timing her, thinking he wouldn’t get caught.
Too scary, so “for mature audiences.”
I think very few people would be fooled into thinking they're driving off the coast of Nigeria (unless you're a Democrat then that could be an issue).
Who invented the Global Positioning System?
Your Dad?
That’s wonderful.
So that’s why Ted Kennedy ended up in the water - a GPS glitch.
That’s as good as any of the various stories he told at the time.
Y2K.... hahaha doom and gloom...
We were getting all kinds of information and I was going to seminars, I was listening to experts in preparedness for all sorts of fantastical scenarios were being bandied about. And yes to cod cutters were very busy. I was working for a company that was concerned.
About halfway through a bunch of this BS, I made my own plan. I bought coffee and bourbon. I figured there is nothing that I couldn’t trade for coffee and bourbon. And I also knew in the back of my mind that every bit of critical infrastructure in this country all had manual backup processes. From electrical substations to railroad tracks, dams, nuclear reactors. Whatever.
There was always a manual backup. Some wheel to turn, or switch to throw... it wasn’t all computerized down to the inth degree... that didn’t exist in 1999.
I don’t know about now but it was farcical in 1999... and I drank coffee and bourbon for years afterwards...
Y2K turned out to be a nothingburger despite all the pundits proclaiming otherwise. There was concern about “imbedded chips” in oil equipement, clocks, and everything imaginable. The Christian pundits were everywhere but nothing came of it. This is hogwash—just an attempt at notoriety. Please get back to me the day after.
Y2K was a stupid hoax but, it did finally teach a few friends about being prepared.
Me and my two sisters flew from California to attend a cousins wedding in Philadelphia, and drove from the hotel in three separate cars each with our own immediate families. Older sister said she would guide us to the church, as she had a GPS in her rental car. So we drove for a long time while I honked the horn telling her it was taking too long to get there, but she kept insisting she was right because she had a GPS. Got to the destination, no church. Right street address, wrong town. Late to the wedding. Yeah, she's a democrat. Never trusted her instincts after that, and did my own navigating. I miss paper maps.
That happens sometimes on my Apple work phone. Starting point when first opened will be Africa.
Distance to point entered, 5,623 miles.
So, do we set the clocks ahead an hour, or back an hour?
Shouldn’t be a problem - the pilots will just take out their maps and navigate the old way.
...oh, never mind.
Lol! I know people like that ... No matter what your instincts tell you, you trust the GPS.
Having said that, I use GPS for all traveling anymore. It’s really accurate and you even get realtime traffic updates and the like. Still, there are occasional moments where it’s wrong and your.brain needs to take over :-).
Also, for the record, I do miss maps. Ever since I was a kid, I was fascinated with them for some reason ... Yes, I was odd :-).
Ahead.
I bought extra Too Ramen, a few cases of bottled water and Diet Cokes, Vodka, Balvenie, a bunch more wine, another water filter, extra kit supplies for medical.
Most of which I was going to purchase anyway and elements of went into another G.O.O.D bag I had planned on building and hadn’t gotten around to yet...
In a war situation could an enemy hack the ‘lines’ and cause ships and planes to go off course?
Funny, I don't see GPS on the list. Airplanes flew before GPS, they'll fly after it.
There's always VOR/NDB/ILS, etc.
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