• Grellan@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Go check out who runs GPS. Starling being nationalized isn’t happening, but if it did the service would likely keep on keeping on.

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      1 year ago

      GPS is quite a bit different. The satellites just orbit and send the same information out. The user device doesn’t have to send anything back - the “communication” is only 1-way. Also, GPS is significantly further out from the planet and involves a lot less satellites, so it is not really feasible to turn them off specifically targeting a small area or an individual target - you’d have to black out a huge chunk of the planet to reliably block “an enemy” from using it.