>> Somehow I doubt that after a war with China, satellites would be high on the priority list of things that need rebuilding.

If GPS goes down, most of our communications will go down. A lot of other stuff falls from there. I suspect we'd be OK after a brief adjustment, but it would be very disruptive.

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ButlerianJihad 2 days ago | parent [-]

Did you mean “transportation”? Communications networks are not reliant on GNSS.

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mattkrause a day ago | parent [-]

A lot of things rely on GNSS for time synchronization, even if they're not moving....

	▲	ButlerianJihad a day ago \| parent [-]
		These are bizarre assertions. GNSS is one way to navigate, and GNSS is one way to synchronize time-of-day. Communications networks are full of devices that don't have, or use, any GPS receivers at all. NTP, WiFi, DOCSIS, DSL, leased lines, servers, core routers, switches, desktops and laptops are all things that won't even notice that GPS was unavailable.