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Any examples you'd care to elaborate about?
by justeleblanc 4y ago
Any examples you'd care to elaborate about?
- CamperBob2 4y agoGalileo might be a good example to discuss in this context.
- justeleblanc 4y agoAre you talking about the satellite navigation system that's been usable and widely used for about a decade? The one that gives location data ten times more precise than GPS (1m vs 10m)? That's a "failed copy costing billions to Europeans"? Really?
- betaby 4y agoGalileo was down for 5 days in a row in 2019. I won't go in to the details of other issues of, for that Bert Hubert's blog is a good start.
- justeleblanc 4y agoNow that's an indictment! One major outage in nearly a decade. Better write off the whole programme as a waste of money. Meanwhile the whole US government gets shut down seemingly every other year.
- betaby 4y agoAre we still on the satellite communications subject?
- justeleblanc 4y agoYes, we are. Why?
- sebzim4500 4y agoBecause GPS has never been shut down, to my knowledge.
- uoaei 4y agoCan you be more specific on how exactly this one-dimensional evaluation of a resolved issue contributes to your argument?
- sebzim4500 4y agoBecause who wants to rely on a navigation system which occasionally goes down for nearly a week?
- uoaei 4y agoClearly you have no idea how these kinds of issues are resolved, and how policies are reviewed and modified, following such an occurrence. An abhorrently depressing view on humanity's future that you believe there is nothing that we learned from this. I thought this discussion forum was about our progress toward the future by the virtue of the hacker spirit?
- CamperBob2 4y agoAre you sure you're writing from an informed perspective? Galileo holds a LOT of expensive, time-consuming lessons that this project will do well to absorb. Outages are only scratching the surface. You'll note that I didn't say "Galileo sucks," or "those guys are morons," or that there was no reason to build it. But the fact that it took longer to commission than the original NAVSTAR GPS system doesn't augur well for a Starlink clone. Which, in any event, will probably be so highly regulated and censored that it will be more like an orbital Minitel than a conventional ISP.
- bryik 4y agoHas GPS ever experienced a major outage in its ~30 years of operation?
- justeleblanc 4y agoNot that I know of. What's your point?