Originally Posted by
Zorak
Today I saw an overhead traffic sign on I-75 near the GA/TN border that read "SOLAR ECLIPSE AUGUST 21 PLAN AHEAD"
Seems to me those who are into it would already have at least rough plans, else it's too late. And for everyone else, they need to "plan ahead" to look up at the sky for a couple minutes?
Maybe this is just an attempt to reduce the number of panicked 911 calls from people who don't know about it
USAF colleague in the GPS Program Office was late to his own happy hour last week because he had to write up a staff package for the Program Director's signature ...
"Amazing the things I encounter in my job.
Flash fake news report: GPS may see 2 hour outage due to solar eclipse!!
Crap. Now I have to explain that solar eclipses occur all the time and we've never seen an issue affecting users... in a politically correct manner (expletives deleted) to the average Joe who knows nothing about how GPS works and is now worried. Sheesh. I need a beer."