What do self -driving tractors, high -speed trade, Amazon connections, airlines tables, energy networks, Uber ride, and your blue phone point?
They are all tied with a fragile signal, drifting 12550 miles above the ground, which is transmitted at a very weak energy level, one engineer called it his name “Tenth of a million billion watts.”
This is GPS. Perhaps, perhaps the largest point of failure in the modern world.
The most important infrastructure that you never thought about
When GPS was launched in 1995, it was a miracle of military ingenuity. Today, it was silently included in almost every major civil system.
- Funding: Time stamps are trading using GPS.
- Energy: Energy networks depend on GPS timing to survive.
- Agriculture: Microleum transplantation is used for cultivation and harvesting.
- Communications: GPS cell towers are used to align signals in 4G and 5G networks.
- Logistics services: tracking the package, directing the fleet, and the timing of delivery? All GPS.
In fact, the economy in London estimates that the full loss in GPS may cost the US economy more than one billion dollars a day. This is not a typo. This is a time bomb.
Oregon: Snow, GPS is guided by GPS (GPS)
Let’s put this in a real-literally example.
On November 20, 2024, twenty drivers in Oregon were guided by GPS off I-84 and on the Rockle Road, a forest service road from a notorious dimension of deep snow in the winter. All twenty vehicles stumbled. Some drivers had to activate SOS satellite features to be rescued (MSN).
Why did they go this way? Tell them GPS. Blind Trust in navigation technology has been replaced by proper logic – this only during the ladder period.
When the sky becomes dark
Now imagine what is happening if GPS is not just a guidance – it completely disappears.
We have already seen glimpses:
- In May 2024,
Solar storms GPS interruption across the Middle West during the planting season. Independent tractors lost their minds and forced farmers to stop operations during the peak of corn transplantation. - In Eastern Europe, tens of thousands of aircraft faced confusion and deception attacks, forcing to redirect, unknown landing, and safety fears of millions of passengers (WIRE).
- IATA reported a 65 % increase in GPS loss events in 2024 over 2023. These are not statistical blades. They are warning signs.
It is not only aircraft and tractors
Let’s play this: How does the huge GPS cut through sectors look like?
- Transport: airlines on the ground. Check the synchronous traffic lights. Rideshare platforms crash. Delivery services stop.
- Communications: Desnchronize. Internet speeds decrease. Emergency services cannot locate the callers.
- Finance: Commercial floors stop. Time stamps go Haywire. Fraud detection failed.
- Energy networks: generators fall out of the phase. Corner power outage at the regional level.
- Supply chains: the collapse of inventory tracking systems. Ports, trucks and retail dealers enter chaos.
- Emergency response: The first respondents cannot move. Disaster areas become black holes.
All this because one fragile, open, non -encrypted, low -energy signal disappears.
Why did we not fix this?
A great question. The US Department of Transport has been assigned to build a GPS backup system since 2004. Since then: Many meetings, notes and executive orders. But there is no widespread backup.
Meanwhile, countries like China use a three aspect approach: Beidou (Space), optical fiber timing, and ELORAN (ground radio). Russia has GLONASS and Chayka. US? GPS – and … oh, hope?
Even PNT National Consultative Council recently warned that the American framework for the flexibility of GPS “does not specify the priority that the system or the clear accountability is entitled” (breaking the defense).
They are repetition
Yes, many systems claim For backup copies – but these backup copies often depend on GPS for calibration or not accurate enough for continuous use.
For example, the phone may have self -deficiency sensors (gyroscopes and acceleration standards), but those that are drifting quickly. Airports may use local beacons, but without timing based on the GPS system (GPS), their format with National Systems stumbles.
The GPS World study in June 2024 revealed that the airports containing powerful altpnt systems (such as DFW and Denver) managed to maintain operations during a long period of power outages.
What can we do? (now)
Here are the good news: We do not need to wait for a disaster. We can act.
- Publishing Eloran-a strong timing and transmission system. It is almost impossible to jam. Already being used by China and Russia.
- Quantum timing funds-as the National Time Center in the UK to build a satellite-free time across the island (IOT World today).
- Implement the various altpnt sources-fiber timing, M-GPS®, Amnesty International Video Systems, and more.
- Public awareness – GPS is not just your phone map. It is the backbone of civilization. Treat it like one.
- The flexibility test requires the authorization of all critical infrastructure operators to simulate “Today without GPS” training, as the Air Force already does.
Final coordinates
We live in GPS cards. And the winds are cap.
If you are reading this on your phone, know this: your maps, your texts, your money, and your strength – all pass through a ghost signal from space that anyone can have a few hundred dollars and the cheerful of corruption.
It’s time to stop assuming that GPS will always be there – and start planning for the day not.
** Because that day is no longer hypothetical. It happens, piece, a jam of jam, sarcastic simulation with sarcastic simulation.
