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World's first GPS-free quantum navigation trial succeeds at sea (interestingengineering.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Gsus4@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 41 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Cue magnetic mines, but where are you getting the gravitic mines from?

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 38 points 1 month ago (8 children)

If it works off tiny changes in gravity, a really big rock would work.

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[–] lauha@lemmy.world 66 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Our mission is to sneak this Ayers rock under the boat without being detected. In and out. 45 minutes tops.

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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 23 points 1 month ago

I was going to say something about the scale of gravity changes needed, but your take is way better. Cheers.

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[–] Quokka@quokk.au 10 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

Most people probably don’t know but we call it Uluru these days as that’s what the local Aboriginal people named it. Ayers Rock is the old coloniser name, and pretty out of fashion.

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[–] lauha@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I know and I am sorry, but the joke would have gone over the head for most of the people if I had said Uluru.

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

And that rock? The moon.

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[–] SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

Well, to be fair, a big rock would also work on a GPS device, if applied directly to it.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

It's a bit obvious that isn't it. Hey captain there appears to be a ship with a giant boulder on board and it's following us around, do you think that might be relevant?

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[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

Might as well just hit the ship with a really big rock at that rate

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[–] masta_chief@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

Ah time to make use of my massive tungsten cube

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[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

They just trigger degauss on 10,000 CRT monitors simultaneously.

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