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028 = Having a Chat and Nav'ing a Sat

A Problem Squared

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The Importance of Distance

If you miss the P by even a centimeter, you're not eating a P. But if you've got tiny chopsticks, the margin for error is tiny. If I was like the other side of the football pitch away from you, and I took a meter step to the left, you'd barely have to move to still be looking at me. And so when the satellites are so far away, because they're all effectively, you barely got to move from one to the other,. All effectively in exactly the same direction. It's way less accurate. So if you turn on the GPS, it's probably just going to say, you're on the moon. Then you're like

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