newyorkslick
join:2001-12-19
Rosedale, NY
3 edits | Thats . . . Hogwash
Doesnt Boeing and Airbus do tests on the Aircrafts systems to prevent devices from interfering with the systems?
I mean if its costing upwards of $100 Million to build one Boeing 777, Im sure they can design its systems to be protected against things like these, especially when boeing is trying to push its broadband connexion model. |
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GOLFnSUN
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| The IEEE is not some fly by night organization that was bought by the airlines trying to stop cell phones to make money. And the Carnegie Mellon engineers, if they say it may increase problems for cockpit systems, then it probably does.
All the "it isn't true" comments will be just carping because people don't want to give up anything they want - facts be damned.
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lol, hang up and drive or fly and sleep, it'll still be there when you stop and then you can concentrate on one thing at a time...any ?'s... |
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
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I'll wait for the study details.
CM claims that the risk is "higher than previously believed", a phrase that is, like the press release containing it, amazingly devoid of all specificity.
It could signify a huge risk, or it could mean that the risk has increased from one half second of GPS interference in every 3.6 million flights to one half second of GPS interference in every 3.58 million flights. Without more, little can be discerned.
CM's own press release states that between one and four cellphone calls are (illegally) made from most flights in the northeast US now, but doesn't call for increased enforcement of current laws--which, if there were an immediate threat to human life, it surely would.
CM is engaging in publicity hype. Whether or not there is anything behind the hype won't be known until the study is released.
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At the time, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann at the University of Utah were respected scientists as well, not people at some fly by night organization either. There little discovery turned out to be incorrect as well.
I'm not saying that the research is flaw. Just pointing out that even if a person is respected in their field, they aren't always correct.
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