Archived For all the flat-Earthers, explain how a device can do GPS (whatever)
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Archived For all the flat-Earthers, explain how a device can do GPS (whatever)
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[–] CalibanFresco 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
Easy. Triangulation with radio towers. You don't need satellites to triangulate. See, your GPS device gets pinged by the radio towers. Once the nearest three radio towers measure how far away you are from each, the wizards living in those towers quickly confer with each other to pinpoint your exact location. Science.
[–] prairie [S] 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago (edited ago)
Or rather, your device measures the times and calculates itself. What about GPS working in the middle of the desert, or middle of the ocean, with no towers nearby? Or where there are lots of trees etc.?
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[–] CalibanFresco 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It doesn't matter if you are somewhere without a radio tower nearby. Radio signals go pretty far. Since the world is flat, it just takes a little longer for the radio signal to reach it and bounce back. Just a higher ping. I mean, it's not like the signal has to worry about its target disappearing past a horizon that isn't there. And if there are trees or buildings around, so what? Radios work in forests and cities all the time. I think you underestimate the penetrating gaze of the radio wizards. That's why wizards live in towers. Because they're so high up, they can see so much farther. Science.
[–] BjornIronside 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
It doesn't. I've been to places in Canada where gps, and "satellite" phones do not work.