#1596 – Skyscraping
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
If I could send a GPS enabled device back in time to any point in my life it would be the few years I lived in the Boston suburbs. That was the most confusing crisscross of weirdly angled roads I’ve had to deal with. The day I felt the most hopeless was when I asked a police officer for directions and he had no idea how to help me. Even with my map.
Tags: gargoyle, gps, vigilante
Are you sure he wasn’t a stripper dressed as a cop?
Would this be a bad time to mention that GPS data is intentionally fudged by ~10 meters or so, so that America’s enemies can’t target missiles onto our hardened bunkers using our own satellites, since that’s almost the only time +/- 10 meters matters…and driving in New England is the other.
Oooh, I’ll always refer to GPS as Gargoyle Positioning System from now on! Dad will be so confused! *Evil grin*
Anyone else than just me who thinks that the skyscrapers look a bit like oddly-shaped Tetris pieces? I’m hoping that a small skyscraper will come down from the sky and land in that little gap…
Global Positioning System? Still 3rd from the Sun, right?
Last I checked, anyhow. But doesn’t it have to do with _keeping_ the globe in position?
Which sun? There’s only around 300000000000000000000000 to choose from.
I knew a few cops, and they really hate giving directions because generally they are doing something more important. So that cop may have just been trying to get rid of you.
I couldn’t rely too much on a GPS, I navigate by landmarks, and if I’ve been to where I was going at least once before.
What’s scary is that autopilots are about to depend on GPS; so the next really strong Coronal Mass Ejection that messes-up the satellites is gonna also make a mess of the ‘friendly’ skies!
What do they depend on now? Cloud landmarks?
Well he sure spent a lot of time pretending he didn’t know how to read my map.