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Bjornsdottirs

@futzle the beacon knows when it is because it knows where it isn't.

24 Aug 2023 at 1:48 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.top
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Deborah Pickett
Bjornsdottirs

@futzle ... come to thisk of it, with GPS being GPS, that... might almost be how that fucker works

24 Aug 2023 at 1:53 | Open on mastodon.top
sabik

@ellenor2000 @futzle
The more modern approaches to celestial navigation (with a sextant) also work on where you aren't

24 Aug 2023 at 2:00 | Open on rants.au
Kyle Brown

@ellenor2000 @futzle this is basically true. With enough satelites, you have enough equations of location that you can solve for time

24 Aug 2023 at 4:10 | Open on kind.social
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