Global Positioning System

Uh, guy can roll.

He, he's getting good GPS times.

But it's all about football conditioning, right? He was doing rehab stuff through the start of training camp.

First couple weeks was on the, uh, non-football injury list because that injury was suffered before he came into the NFL.

Nothing.

Her car was still parked in the driveway, and my phone's GPS locator showed her right there at the house.

I figured she had stepped out for a morning walk, but two hours later, she walked down the stairs, coming straight from our bedroom.

Where were you, I asked.

need traffic anymore.

We have GPS.

I know, but can't they have the helicopter

where you use a drone maybe and put a camera on there? We see that all the time.

And I'm like, where am I going? I don't know where I'm going.

I'm like, I'm just going to turn left and keep going that way and hope that I come back to 59.

And so I'm like, what the fuck am I going to do? So anyway, I put in the GPS for where I know I'm going, but I'm trying to figure out, will GPS know about it? GPS already knew about it.

GPS rerouted me around it.

And they're shooting each other's satellites down.

If they shoot down satellites, you're not going to have GPS.

You're not going to have your iPhone.

You're not going to have your electric vehicle.

And electric vehicles are not going to work.

Electric cars are not going to work.

GPS may not work.

They can knock it out.

And they're shooting each other's satellites down.

If they shoot down satellites, you're not going to have GPS.

You're not going to have your iPhone.

You're not going to have your electric vehicle.

And electric vehicles are not going to work.

Electric cars are not going to work.

GPS may not work.

They can knock it out.

Today Oak Ridge is an ordinary small city of roughly 30,000 people situated in the valley between the ridges.

visible on every map and findable by every GPS.

It is home to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, one of the Department of Energy's largest research institutions, and to the Y-12 National Security Complex, which still processes uranium for the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile.

The K-25 building, the gaseous diffusion plant that was once the largest building in the world, has been largely demolished, a process of decontamination and deconstruction that has taken decades and cost billions of dollars.

Open a map.

A different map this time, a modern map, digital, rendered on a screen, zoomable to a resolution that would have been unimaginable to the cartographers who drew the blank spaces of the 1940s and 1950s.

The map is compiled from satellite imagery, GPS data.

government surveys and the contributions of millions of users who have walked the streets and driven the roads and photographed the buildings and added their observations to the collective record.

As the imprisoning field formed overhead, we found ourselves cut off from the satellite network that had become so vitally important in our globalized society.

GPS ceased to function, the internet faltered and fell for weeks on end, and our global economy entered a tailspin.

The only thing that stopped our civilization from plunging back into the Stone Ages were the years we had spent creating ground-based backups for the most important satellite networks, all of which came online in relatively short order.

Regardless, the collective shock was still enough to turn every man, woman, and child firmly in favor of more aggressive action against the Pillars.

I mean, it was built out there to mark the shoals.

Obviously, GPS has eliminated the need for this tower.

There's just one of these.

The frying pan is just one of three towers that remains, and it's the only one that can really have people still on it.