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re: Ever wonder about how a missile knows where it is?
Posted on 6/17/21 at 9:36 am to ManBearTiger
Posted on 6/17/21 at 9:36 am to ManBearTiger
Sounds like a Douglas Adams character monologue from the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy.
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Posted on 6/17/21 at 10:01 am to ManBearTiger
My Dad wrote flight control software for missiles, rockets (including Apollo-Saturn), and satellites and this is how I remember him trying to explain it to me - lots of math involved.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 10:37 am to ManBearTiger
The inventor of the fire hydrant is not known because the patent documents were destroyed in a fire.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 9:53 pm to GumboPot
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What compelled you to quote me here:
It just cracked me up- I think a thread about Tom Hanks being a pedo
Posted on 6/17/21 at 9:57 pm to roadkill
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y Dad wrote flight control software for missiles, rockets (including Apollo-Saturn), and satellites and this is how I remember him trying to explain it to me - lots of math involved.
He could have made it short and sweet like one of my instructors did: It knows where it is because it knows where it isn't. It was all Greek after that.
This post was edited on 6/17/21 at 9:59 pm
Posted on 6/17/21 at 9:59 pm to ManBearTiger
Same way a thermos knows to keep hot stuff hot and cold stuff cold.
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