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

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> On Jul 18, 2019, at 10:30 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swm...@swm.pp.se> 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: swm...@swm.pp.se

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