| Snoopy said: 1st. We never had that many conversations and nothing extensive about technology. So stop lying like you know me, son. |
I am not your son. Do not call me that.
| Snoopy said: 2nd. Here is what would happened if our satellites go bye bye. Yes, the internet and GPS will be affected greatly. Source: https://io9.gizmodo.com/what-would-happen-if-all-our-satellites-were-suddenly-d-1709006681 |
You failed to appropriately read my post.
I never made the assertion that things wouldn't be affected.
The other issue is of course Bandwidth... A single Satellite (A modern one) has a top-end amount of bandwidth of around 1TB/s of bandwidth (ViaSat-2).
But guess what? That is a shared medium and doesn't account for data transmission losses, encoding overhead and so on.
A submarine cable can hit 160TB/s. Ouch.
There are hundreds of thousands of miles of said cables laid all around the world.
But don't take my word for it....
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
http://2oqz471sa19h3vbwa53m33yj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cable-map-full.jpg
The next issue of course is latency. The law of physics literally applies here...
A cable laid between the USA and Australia is a much shorter trip than the USA, 23,000 miles in space to a satellite, then back down to Australia.
Usually latency via Terrestrial means is around 200-250ms.
Satellite you are looking at 800-1,000ms. - Even 1,400ms wouldn't be unheard of.
Could you put up with clicking a mouse in Diable 3 and waiting 1 and a half seconds for an action to occur? No? Exactly.
| Snoopy said: "We would also lose the Global Positioning System. In the years since its inception, GPS has become ubiquitous, and a surprising number of systems have become reliant on it."
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And many systems use triangulation of phone towers instead of GPS navigation due to various factors.
The more towers you have, the more accurate it becomes.
In-fact, for emergency service work, if someone is lost in the wilderness, we use mobile phone tower triangulation to pinpoint where the user is rather than GPS if they use their mobile phone.
So get educated: https://www.safetrax.in/2017/09/05/gps-cell-tower-triangulation-help-tracking-location/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_tracking
| Snoopy said: Finally, Evolution states the fittest will survive and breed. However, that doesn't stop outside forces from stopping this. Look what happened to the dinosaurs son. So yes, we are lucky that something bad didn't happen to stop us especially from the beginning when we're completely reliant on nature.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection
| Snoopy said: Here is an interesting article from BBC if satellites stopped working. Internet and GPS will be effected a lot.
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The BBC mentions...
Satellite Television:
* Not an issue for a more Netflix switched-on world.
Radio:
* We have dedicated radio towers here fed with Microwave backhaul links. - Again. Not an issue.
GPS:
* Partially an issue for devices/vehicles that cannot do triangulation from mobile networks. (I.E. Planes.)
* However... BBC is scaremongering. The GPS network wasn't fully online untill 1995, with precision GPS active untill the year 2,000 the world survived fine before that date... Planes didn't fall out of the sky.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
Our networks are simply extremely robust to any disruption.
And now we have gone off-topic. Let's steer it back shall we?
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