Re. Chinese FireCrackers

[RIMCOas01]

I thought I posted this already ... but cannot find it so try again....

You are all aware of course that China has been successful in the destruction of a satellite from a ground stationed rocket launch ....

So my question:

If I am still within the warranty period of my GPS equipment ... what chance I can obtain a refund should there be less than the necessary 7 NASA birds in the sky ?

Martin

 

[Norman_E]

That will be the least of your problems, as World War III will be well under way if China starts hitting US satelites.

 

[steve_cronin]

..and I suppose.....

...that your GPS was made in a highly polluting factory in China and even if the factory itself was "clean" which I doubt, it was certainly powered by a dirty technology power station.

Steve Cronin

 

[jhr]

Hee hee! That reminds me of a conversation I had with a colleague recently about our Business Continuity Plans in the event of a disaster on one of our sites. I always have an up to date database of employee information - name, address, phone/mobile number, that kind of stuff - on my laptop in the event that I can't access our main staff database. My colleague doesn't think that this is adequate in the event of an incident causing a major electromagnetic pulse, and isn't impressed with my view that the likeliest such incident is a nuclear explosion - in which case I'm not going to be worried about not being able to phone my secretary.....

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

And James.... he's right..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Having worked on BC quite a bit, the biggest challenge companies ever face is communicating with staff after a disaster..... do you have the latest mobile numbers for any staff under the age of 21 who change their mobile 6 times a year?

If not, how are you going to tell them what to do when the office is shut down for some unexpected reason?

etc etc etc

 

[StugeronSteve]

Of course not, if there's only three minutes left you would be under the desk with her!

 

[Woodlouse]

Isn't the sun supposed to knock out the satellites in 2012 anyway?

I think with their current standards in accuracy over guided weapons the GPS satellites are more at risk from the Americans than the Chinise.

 

[StugeronSteve]

Whoops, there's me being sexualistically presumptuous...

You may well be in a same sex co-working partnership of course.

 

[jhr]

[ QUOTE ]
Of course not, if there's only three minutes left you would be under the desk with her!

[/ QUOTE ] Even if there were only three minutes left, Mrs jhr would somehow get to hear about it - in which case nuclear annihilation would be a blessed release! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[StugeronSteve]

Back to the serious topic of this thread.

I'm more than a little surprised that the Chinese managed to pack enough propellant in to one of those little pots to get the streamers high enough to hit the satelite.

 

[Woodlouse]

They went to the top of a hill before launching.

 

[jhr]

Secretary is a she. Lovely woman and the soul of efficiency, but to be honest, not the person I'd choose to spend my last three minutes under a desk with.

 

[StugeronSteve]

And you're in HR!!!!

 

[sarabande]

Errr, it seems to me that you and your laptop are a SPOF (Single Point of Failure).

There are lots of events with higher probability and greater business impact than a transient pulse. But then, one should never make BC plans on the basis of scenarios.

 

[sarabande]

[ QUOTE ]
the biggest challenge companies ever face is communicating with staff after a disaster

[/ QUOTE ]

apart from dealing with:

customers
shareholders
regulatory and compliance authorities
local and national government
emergency services
supply chain
work area recovery
logistics support
crisis management
event control
IT infrastructure
data centre and server farms
application recovery
data integrity and availability
restoration to normality
insurance trail
asset claims
legal issues
procurement of replacement kit
essential records saving and restoration
media management and control
public relations

and making sure the payroll works in 2 days time.

Amongst a few other things /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Twister_Ken]

Ah, yes, but if you can't get hold of staff first, there's no way you're gonna get all that other stuff done.

 

[jhr]

According to my boss, I've always been an SPOF, even without a disaster. I have paper backup of the data and it's stored on a shadow offsite server but I'm not sure either of these things will be much help if the Big One drops.

We've had a couple of major incidents in the last couple of years - total loss of power for several days following a switch room explosion on one site, and a major fire (with exploding gas cylinders) next door to another site, resulting in denial of access to the office for three days. The best I can say is that our BCP plans worked in both cases but none of us are complacent about the effect on the business of (eg) total destruction of one of our sites.

I'm interested to hear you say "one should never make BC plans on the basis of scenarios". Fair enough, maybe, but how do you make BC plans if not by thinking "what will we do if......."?

 

[jhr]

[ QUOTE ]
And you're in HR!!!!

[/ QUOTE ] I know; but I try to buck the stereotype. We're not all grumpy, manipulative pedantic Vogons, you know. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Precisely.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

I know you do this stuff for a living.... but so do I!!!!!

(And I have had to execute the plan for real!)