http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/good-bye-%e2%80%9cbeyond-the-limits%e2%80%9d-hello-%e2%80%9ctime-and-navigation%e2%80%9d/ Mon, 20 May 2013 19:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/good-bye-%e2%80%9cbeyond-the-limits%e2%80%9d-hello-%e2%80%9ctime-and-navigation%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-32866 charlie Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:48:53 +0000 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?p=3398#comment-32866 Paul, enjoyed your review. But couldn’t help but laugh out load with your reference to the restaurant location. I work in the oil-field. While I was on a location out in no-where’s-ville SE New Mexico, the failings of GPS usage came to mind. Another employee was driving to the job and asked me what the LAT and LONG were. I tried to tell him the directions by highway numbers and distances. Well, he finally called me after having been lost for 4 hours. It seems he almost made it to Colorado before he caved in. I told him to meet me at a nearby town and I would lead him there. On the lead-back, I stopped 10 miles from the rig (at 3am) and said “any idea of where your at now?”. He said yes, he had been able to the 100 feet tall derrick (with a hazard light flashing on top), but his GPS didn’t show a road there. I continue to worry about our youth!

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