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The Day GPS Stops Working

Published · 13 min

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The Day GPS Stops Working

GPS is more than a map. This documentary reveals the invisible timing system behind phones, finance, power grids, farming, shipping and emergency response—and what happens when its signals disappear.

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Chapters

  1. The invisible utility
  2. From Sputnik to Navstar
  3. GPS becomes ordinary
  4. How GPS actually works
  5. The clock behind the economy
  6. Jamming and spoofing
  7. Navigation begins to fail
  8. Timing starts to drift
  9. Building a backup
  10. The lesson of the blue dot

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