@Kurtbelgard@VoteMeHarder@AtomsNotBits@DIU_x Most of it would have to be re-implemented and trained up on, a big expense. Or we could just develop more backups like this quantum navigation stuff
Plus radionav can also be jammed or messed with. The goal here obviously being something that there's basically no way to fuck up
@jhouse678@AtomsNotBits@DIU_x This is the very first trial of the quantum nav technology. An aircraft flying at the literal edge of space could only achieve 100m accuracy, this will very quickly dwarf that and will work in conditions besides flying at the literal edge of space.
@jhouse678@AtomsNotBits@DIU_x Celestial nav was never that accurate, unless you have a computer doing it in space. Small perturbations and errors in measurement can move a fix quite a lot.
@VoteMeHarder@AtomsNotBits@DIU_x Yes but there were still a ton of inaccuracies before we got GPS, and the 20th century prior to GPS utilized extensive Radio Navigation infrastructure we simply don't have anymore, mostly because it wasn't needed. Inertial is our current main fallback, but it drifts (like DR)
@Oakmanbearcow@xwanyex You mean letting her go free? Yeah, no. Not okay. In a just world she'd be executed, but we'll have to settle for locking her up instead of a a few years of "treatment"
@Oakmanbearcow@xwanyex The Clancy trial response isn't some thought out ideological play based on principles. The trial touches on very sore points to the progressive female mind, and the female mind in general. Thus their importance to the coalition meant it got pushed to the front of discourse.
@TheFatAmerican Worked in nautical navigation not too long ago and Mercator is still an essential projection for navigating in any given area. You're not gonna need Great Circles for dicking around offshore, putting around the med, or steaming around a bay.
@ItIsHoeMath Before mass media there was little need to control the masses, with what little ability residing almost entirely in very localized power. Hard for your enemies to psyop your people if they have no way to reach them.
China new this heading into the 21st century.