GPS, Air Force says that GPS situation is 'under control,' urges you to 'chill out'
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted May 21st 2009 4:32PM
posted May 21st 2009 4:32PM
Responding to a Government Accountability Office report that warns of major GPS failures as early as next year, U.S. Air Force Col. Dave Buckman has responded, saying: "No way! As if! The issue is under control." If anything, he said, "there's only a small risk we will not continue to exceed our performance standard." Whew, that's a relief... we don't know what we'd do without our Knight Rider GPS to keep us company on those long, lonely car rides.
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meh
definitely
i dont believe them it soulds a little too smooth
Foolz! Sum uh yous kant spel nuttin rite! But youz all gut it rong! Simple, you first pull down on beanie cap for a tight fit, being extremely careful in making sure the adhesive glue is applied to the exposed blades on the beanie cap, gently rub the tin foil on the blades making sure to cover the blades an leaving NO exposed blades that are not covered with the tin foil! An just as soon as the problem outlined above occurs, go outside and running the negative wire to the GPS unit, hold the other end tightly, an position yourself so that your facing directly towards the wind, you should receive absolutely perfect reception! Hey, if you doubt it, drop the end of the ground wire you had been holding between your fingers, on the ground, run back inside and look at your GPS unit, you should have a perfect signal! (If problem still exist, please send $5.00 to me for schematics on how to shove the end of the outside ground wire up your anal cavity to get crystal clear reception)
Nah. McD will take the lowest common denominator. It's the overqualified people that they turn away.
Exactly what kind of failure are we to expect? Satellites bumping into each other, or GPSs giving us wrong directions?
BigD145,
I think you must be referring to the Geek Squad.
"I'm sorry i can't do that Dave Buckman"
Until it fails, the US Military is going to tell us to Chill. Thus far, everything is working just fine. These satellites are not going to wink off all at ones on a specific "end of service" date, they will slowly faulter. Look at the Mars rovers -- 90 day design perion, over 5 years of active service.
Hmm, you don't think those numbers prove incompetence from the design team rather than quality in spaceprograms do you? To be off on something like that by a factor of 20 although it works out positive shows they suck at predicting and don't know what power their own stuff uses, pretty sad comment on their capabilities perhaps?
BANANA PHONE claims partial responsibility for the mess
RUBIK^3