I suspect the Vatican was involved :) -mel
> On Jul 19, 2019, at 12:20 AM, George Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Worthwhile noting however that they’re not reliably pushing notifications to > people on their notifications list. > > Worthwhile checking fundamentals you do depend on with your own low level > monitoring. > > -George > > Sent from my iPhone > >>> On Jul 18, 2019, at 10:30 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Sean Donelan wrote: >>> >>> So much for the disaster scenarioes about a global clamity, planes falling >>> out the sky, the end of civil society because a global navigation satellite >>> system fails. The European Galileo GNSS was down for days, and life went >>> on. >> >> It wasn't even in full production, and I am not aware of much equipment that >> solely relies on Galileo. >> >> A lot of devices today can use multiple GNSS and this is great, as this >> incident shows that one of them can go offline. Relying on only one of them >> is risky. >> >> This outage and its lack of ramifications doesn't imply that if GPS went >> offline there woulnd't be consequences. Galileo is just a few years old, and >> wasn't even in production. If GPS would go offline, you'd see a lot >> different fallout. Lots of things rely on GPS solely. >> >> -- >> Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected]
