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[-] NotJustForMe@lemmy.ml 43 points 10 months ago

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. ;)

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 27 points 10 months ago

GPS can be jammed, try jamming stars.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

Who would win:

  • A billion, billion unfathomably massive fusion reactions
  • Some steamy bois ☁️🌥
[-] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

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

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 18 points 10 months ago

Land navies hate this.

[-] wafflez@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Light polution, checkmate astronomer

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Amazon and Musk are working on it.

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

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

[-] oce@jlai.lu 6 points 10 months ago

Starlink: hold my Xitter handle

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

"That's no moon."

[-] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] prayer@lemmy.world 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.

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