What Happens If GPS Goes Dark for 30 Days?
At midnight, GPS goes dark. Not slower. Not inaccurate. Gone.
This episode follows a 30-day satellite navigation blackout hour by hour, as a stress test of the modern world: navigation, aviation, ports, telecom, markets, power grids, and the invisible clocks that hold them all together.
Maps lose the blue dot. Aircraft and ships slow down out of caution, not collapse. Then the real crisis appears, and it isn't about location at all. It's about precise time. By week one, the costs show up on shelves and runways. On day 30 the signal returns, and the audit begins.
A speculative scenario…
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