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welterde on Feb 2, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: What If GPS Stood for “Galactic Positioning System...

There probably would be no need to build anything, since we already can use pulsars for that (XNAV; what this article is about) and the achievable resolution should be more than good enough to be able to use it for navigation inside our solar system (couple km iirc).

viach on Feb 2, 2018 [–]

My point was not that we need to build something, but that if we would need to build it , we build it in the same locations.

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