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The military also buys iPhones, and Androids. What phone do you use? That very phone was probably used to order a drone strike! Did you use GPS technology this

The military also buys iPhones, and Androids. What phone do you use? That very phone was probably used to order a drone strike! Did you use GPS technology this past week? That was the tech guiding the drone to it's target. And this thing called the internet was invented to network the military

roywiggins 8y ago
GPS is a military technology opened to civilians... going the other way feels different, for whatever reason.
- nradov 8y ago
  No, GPS was actually designed from the start as a dual military and civilian system. The only part that wasn't originally available to civilians was the high precision signal.
  - sdinsn 8y ago
    > GPS was actually designed from the start as a dual military and civilian system No, what prompted GPS to be opened to civilian uses was KAL007 being shot down by the Soviet Union. [1] 269 killed, including a US Rep. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
    - nradov 8y ago
      No, as usual Wikipedia isn't quite accurate. Here's an actual interview with the "father of GPS". "BRAD PARKINSON: Absolutely. And there are a lot of misconceptions about that. You hear people saying, well it was a military system and eventually made a civil system. That was not true. When I testified before Congress back about 1975, I said this is a combination military civil system." https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/how-gps-found-its-way/ https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/how-gps-found-its-way...
420codebro 8y ago
Re GPS - civilian GPS signals are not the same as military GPS. P(Y) and M-code GPS signals chirp at 10x the rate as the un-encrypted (civilian) signals. In the time you get one navigational update for your car/iPhone GPS, a cruise missile's GPS has received 10 updates, presumably helping him guide himself up the ass of some terrorist at ~500MPH.

roywiggins 8y ago

GPS is a military technology opened to civilians... going the other way feels different, for whatever reason.

nradov 8y ago
No, GPS was actually designed from the start as a dual military and civilian system. The only part that wasn't originally available to civilians was the high precision signal.
- sdinsn 8y ago
  > GPS was actually designed from the start as a dual military and civilian system No, what prompted GPS to be opened to civilian uses was KAL007 being shot down by the Soviet Union. [1] 269 killed, including a US Rep. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
  - nradov 8y ago
    No, as usual Wikipedia isn't quite accurate. Here's an actual interview with the "father of GPS". "BRAD PARKINSON: Absolutely. And there are a lot of misconceptions about that. You hear people saying, well it was a military system and eventually made a civil system. That was not true. When I testified before Congress back about 1975, I said this is a combination military civil system." https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/how-gps-found-its-way/ https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/how-gps-found-its-way...

420codebro 8y ago

Re GPS - civilian GPS signals are not the same as military GPS. P(Y) and M-code GPS signals chirp at 10x the rate as the un-encrypted (civilian) signals. In the time you get one navigational update for your car/iPhone GPS, a cruise missile's GPS has received 10 updates, presumably helping him guide himself up the ass of some terrorist at ~500MPH.