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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Making fun for STILL using it. If our navy would navigate by the stars at night, it would be laughed at, right? And rightly so. ;)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (7 children)

GPS can be jammed, try jamming stars.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Who would win:

  • A billion, billion unfathomably massive fusion reactions
  • Some steamy bois ☁️🌥
[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Urban areas with huge light pollution: "and I took that personally"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Land navies hate this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Light polution, checkmate astronomer

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Amazon and Musk are working on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Now I wonder if we could launch satellites as artificial stars for celestial navigation. Basically optical GPS.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Starlink: hold my Xitter handle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Actually, don't. The pollution would kill us all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

"That's no moon."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tbh that sounds like a fun project for an app or something, as a backup to gps in case it's jammed. Just lay your phone on the ground, take a long exposure picture and then use the phones time to calculate where you are. Might need to take the accelerometer into account if the ground isn't flat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Fighter jets have automatic star navigation to augment their GPS navigation features. It's more than a fun project, it's military technology.