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FAA Warns of GPS Outages This Month During Mysterious Tests On the West Coast (gizmodo.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a Gizmodo report: Starting today, it appears the U.S. military will be testing a device or devices that will potentially jam GPS signals for six hours each day. We say "appears" because officially the tests were announced by the FAA but are centered near the U.S. Navy's largest installation, China Lake, Californi -- home to the Navy's 1.1 million acre Naval Air Weapons Center in the Mojave Desert. And the Navy won't tell us much about what's going on. The FAA issued an advisory warning pilots on Saturday that global positioning systems (GPS) could be unreliable during six different days this month, primarily in the Southwestern United States. On June 7, 9, 21, 23, 28, and 30th the GPS interference testing(PDF) will be taking place between 9:30am and 3:30pm Pacific time. But if you're on the ground, you probably won't notice interference.
First they launch the satellites and then they try to jam their signals. It would have been more efficient if they didn't launch the satellites in the first place, me thinks.
3 hours in a checkpoint with my shoes off, my laptop out, and my belt in a plastic tub as i shuffle with my pants now around my ankles into a giant microwave oven only to have boarded a flight where a thick beard or a mathematics equation on a napkin will get me sent to torture prison wasnt enough. Now, the very agency purportedly keeping me safe from the "terrorists" has knocked out the global system used to guide everything from uber to cruise missiles and my flight to Phoenix is now a flight to Scotland.
Good people go to bed earlier.
I gotta say - those Waze Warriors are getting pretty darn serious!
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Well they shouldn't be testing GPS in California. GPS is known to the State of California to cause cancer, and birth defects or other reproductive harm.
How would you ever notice a 250 nanometer region of interference?
They've managed to reconstruct the crashed UFO from Roswell (which was actually a German V3 made in conjunction with a planned attack by the blue aliens in 1944) with the help of a benevolent Bigfoot that was living near Loch Ness, and are moving it out of the hanger for test flights. No, really... The History Channel documentary on the project should be on later this week.
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Time to dust off the sextant. My father insisted that I learn celestial navigation when I started sailing long distances when I was a teen, but that was back in the early '90's.
Let me guess... you actually mean early 1490s, and your dad was Christopher Columbus.
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