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Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America’s Air Traffic Control
On Friday, September 26, 2014, a telecommunications contractor named Brian Howard woke early and headed to Chicago Center, an air traffic control hub in Aurora, Illinois, where he had worked for eight years. He had decided to get stoned and kill himself, and as his final gesture he planned to take a chunk of the US air traffic control system with him. (www.wired.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
A lost iPhone cannot be traced in the middle of the Atlantic, radio waves without a base station renders the phone useless, so that is a bad example. Forget over the Atlantic, if you loose your iPhone in rural Osage, IA where there is no coverage, it cannot be traced.
In all cases, finding something lost be it MH370 or an iPhone requires radio infrastructure. That infrastructure costs money. And as I provided in the case of aircraft owners in the U.S., unwilling to replace/install ADS-B transponders unless forced, it is not a question of technology, but of who will pay for it.
In all cases, finding something lost be it MH370 or an iPhone requires radio infrastructure. That infrastructure costs money. And as I provided in the case of aircraft owners in the U.S., unwilling to replace/install ADS-B transponders unless forced, it is not a question of technology, but of who will pay for it.
40 year old tech microwaved my dinner tonight, too.
Is she still good looking?
what's the meaning?
Wei, he was using humor to ironically compare radar based ATC systems that use the same radio technology that is used to heat food quickly.
Thank you.A America humor.
Strange theory, how much accidents would it then take to decide to update things ?