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GPS Devices Might Stop Working This Weekend -- Week Number Rollover

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04-11-2019 11:46 AM

Back in the 1970s, my uncle - who was a commercial fisherman - had a GPS on his boat. According to him, it had a built-in glitch that caused the reported position to jump about fifty feet sideways every few minutes. That was not a problem on a slow-moving boat but it would hopefully have been a problem for the Russians if they tried to use it in a cruise missile, for example.
And our geese will blot out the sun.
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