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1 posted on 11/12/2018 4:19:29 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Cruise missiles and drones could use this.


2 posted on 11/12/2018 4:23:40 AM PST by for-q-clinton (This article needs a fact checked)
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It sounded interesting, but I was thinking it would have been through quantum entanglement. Then I thought about the measurement paradox and realized I am not a quantum physicist.

Accelerometer navigation would be next to worthless without major computational power, and the device is hardly portable, so this seems to be a solution that is as complicated and fallible as the GPS system it is intended to replace.


4 posted on 11/12/2018 4:33:03 AM PST by antidisestablishment ( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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To: BenLurkin

Lots of application.

The first model has just been demonstrated in the lab.

It will likely shrink down, but it does require high power.

Minature accelerometers have been used for decades already.

They fill in the gaps from GPS for smart weapons.

This one is so potentially accurate and reliable, it would not need the GPS.


6 posted on 11/12/2018 4:36:55 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: BenLurkin

Inertial navigation was used long before GPS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system


8 posted on 11/12/2018 4:45:11 AM PST by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: BenLurkin

Trains?


9 posted on 11/12/2018 5:19:42 AM PST by T. P. Pole
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To: BenLurkin

BTTT


11 posted on 11/12/2018 5:27:27 AM PST by RedEyeJack (What was the basis for the restriction?)
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Sounds like a Inertial Navigation System. I use to work on the old version of a INS back in the 80s. This would be a Quantum Inertial Navigation system.

Before GPS, a lot of Aircraft systems used INS for navigation.


17 posted on 11/12/2018 5:45:45 AM PST by DEPcom
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Scientists have demonstrated a "commercially viable"

I smile every time I read one of these kind of articles. Scientists never demonstrate any commercially viable anything. Scientists demonstrate a scientific concept ONCE and then turn it over to engineers, where the hard work begins. It is not as easy as scientists (physicists in particular) think it is to get something from concept to production. Doing it once is not the same as making it a million times, cost effectively.

22 posted on 11/12/2018 5:56:02 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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Isn’t this what Leonard, Sheldon, and Howard were working on?

Sure sounds like it.

Maybe this is what happened to it when the military took it over.


26 posted on 11/12/2018 6:34:31 AM PST by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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Submarines would love this, since they can’t get GPS signal while submerged.


35 posted on 11/12/2018 9:12:17 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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