Everyone Has Screwed Up
GPS is great, but it’s clearly the wrong solution. The EU screwed up cloning it with Galileo because it’s not a good backup (or even good in any real way either). GLONASS is simply another, and the Chinese and Japanese systems are also not good backups.
The real answer is a pivot back to terrestrial technologies like eLoran and radio clock transmitters. The problem is persuading a bunch of politicians to agree to this and standardise on it when some of them have just spent billions on a GPS clone. Plus rolling these out to developing areas is not trivial; they’re just as dependent on GPS for comms nets, but are far less able to build their own chain of terrestrial transmitters for timing and position.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
