Message from @Smartyrdom

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2018-05-01 00:38:39 UTC  

GPS systems also are an interesting practical application of general relativity. Which I know better than tiny scale quantum stuff.

2018-05-01 00:38:53 UTC  

GPS is GROUND Positioning System

2018-05-01 00:39:05 UTC  

But how do they see you?

2018-05-01 00:39:15 UTC  

Is the ground magical?

2018-05-01 00:39:22 UTC  

towers

2018-05-01 00:39:24 UTC  

Have you ever experienced radio signal loss?

2018-05-01 00:39:27 UTC  

why all the towers?

2018-05-01 00:39:43 UTC  

🤦

2018-05-01 00:39:53 UTC  

if satellites orbit a spherical earth, why all the towers?

2018-05-01 00:39:58 UTC  

the satellites for GPS move so fast their clocks slow down enough that the position get bad by about 4 inches a day right?

2018-05-01 00:40:16 UTC  

@Pretentieux signal strength

2018-05-01 00:40:17 UTC  

that's the string of lies they would have you believe, yes

2018-05-01 00:40:41 UTC  

Because your phone doesn't have a strong enough antenna to SEND A READABLE SIGNAL INTO LOW EARTH ORBIT

2018-05-01 00:40:43 UTC  

to transmit to space with all the interference requires powerful signals

2018-05-01 00:41:03 UTC  

Jesus Christ

2018-05-01 00:41:09 UTC  

Can't help us anymore

2018-05-01 00:41:10 UTC  

the iridium satellite network phones are still huge bricks

2018-05-01 00:41:18 UTC  

lol you are upset because i don't believe in your space fairy tales

2018-05-01 00:41:35 UTC  

*space fairytales*

2018-05-01 00:41:50 UTC  

I've seen a satellite in a telescope once

2018-05-01 00:42:02 UTC  

The positional drift on a non skew-corrected gps signal would be off by roughly 10km in a day's time.

2018-05-01 00:42:16 UTC  

You can literally watch Sputnik with the naked eye on a clear night.

2018-05-01 00:42:38 UTC  

@Smartyrdom thank you was trying to recall from memory years ago

2018-05-01 00:43:40 UTC  

Firstly, my friend

2018-05-01 00:43:53 UTC  

That's not what a satellite looks like.

2018-05-01 00:43:56 UTC  

I was once told some satellites use pulsars to locate themselves?

2018-05-01 00:44:06 UTC  

That's a cartoonist impression of a satellite

2018-05-01 00:44:20 UTC  

+20 hoax points

2018-05-01 00:44:25 UTC  

Right off the bat

2018-05-01 00:44:35 UTC  

looks like atmosphere/weather thing

2018-05-01 00:44:41 UTC  

^

2018-05-01 00:45:03 UTC  

If I were to venture a guess, atmospheric monitoring equipment

2018-05-01 00:45:35 UTC  

But no, this is all part of the Big Globe conspiracy.

2018-05-01 00:45:56 UTC  

I had to look the numbers up. I'm actually curious now about maintaining the power requirements on a Rubidium oscillator for the timing, the microprocessing to correct for GR, and the signal RX/TX

2018-05-01 00:47:07 UTC  

GPS doesn't receive many signals they mainly transmit location and time

2018-05-01 00:47:17 UTC  

Yeah, it looks like an atmospheric monitor to me too.

2018-05-01 00:47:31 UTC  

The issue with Flat Earth conspiracies is that you've set yourselves up with a religious sort of infallibility

2018-05-01 00:47:44 UTC  

Every counterexample is proof of the conspiracy.

2018-05-01 00:47:51 UTC  

but it works both ways

2018-05-01 00:48:04 UTC  

how long would flights to Australia be on a flat earth?