Thread: Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai
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Default Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai
On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 18:39:36 -0500,
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Yet another navigational hazard:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614689/ghost-ships-crop-circles-and-soft-gold-a-gps-mystery-in-shanghai/?utm_medium=10today.ad3li.20191115.421.1&utm_sourc e=email&utm_content=article&utm_campaign=10-for-today---4.0-styling

It didn't take a lot of imagination to propose that you could screw
with GPS. It does call into question how well GPS targeting of
missiles will work against a savvy enemy. They might just guide them
all out into the ocean. OTOH the propaganda value might be in blowing
up hospitals and churches.
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