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 <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
