Like what we do here? Donate
Need a new or refreshed website? Five Point Web Solutions
Looking for a web host? Website Hosting & Management
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20202-gps-chaos-how-a-30-box-can-jam-your-life.html?full=tru e">New Scientist article
The link above shows just how susceptible GPS is to jamming even now.
BTW, the site has some excellent coverage of the unfolding events in Japan.
That's one scary article. I knew there were some dependencies on GPS, but that says there are even more than I realized.
Our whole society is getting more and more to be built as a house of cards, assuming that what we have will always be there. Civilization will disintegrate when something we depend on goes away due to accident or sabotage and there is a chain reaction.
Fifty years ago, if everything imaginable broke down at once (which wouldn't happen because of low interdependence), it would have been a serious problem (for what, 10% of the US population) in the cities. The rural population would have been inconvenienced, but they would have heat, stored food, gardens, etc. and life would go on.
Today if something big goes wrong, everything else could fail through interdependence and 99+% of the population would be in the dark, freezing, with no food in the stores, no way to get anywhere, and no useful skills that didn't depend on electric tools and fuel distribution. Instant mayhem and dark ages.
Sorry if this is turning into P/R. If anyone wants to argue, lets start a new thread.