The FAA is expanding use of an $875 million AI tool, SMART, to "assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system," but the agency says that the route-management software will not affect air safety.
Published yesterday. What’s the worst that could happen?
Turns out knowing the speed of light impacts latency between locations spread across thousands of miles; demonstrated that they never hear of the 500 mile email bug.
I haven’t heard either, but speed of light latency would certainly be detectable in this application.
The Minnesota ARTCC, for example, covers 300,000 square miles of territory with line-of-sight VHF radio transceivers (and radar). All of those transceivers have to be networked to the single control room with the controllers.
Turns out knowing the speed of light impacts latency between locations spread across thousands of miles; demonstrated that they never hear of the 500 mile email bug.
https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
I hope that guy got a job
It’s a story from someone working at at university during the early 1990s. They’re probably retired by now.
Hold on, is the speed of light latency actually relevant to this issue? I haven’t seen that anywhere.
I haven’t heard either, but speed of light latency would certainly be detectable in this application.
The Minnesota ARTCC, for example, covers 300,000 square miles of territory with line-of-sight VHF radio transceivers (and radar). All of those transceivers have to be networked to the single control room with the controllers.
Amazing haha
I have never failed to read this again when posted. Wild!