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GPS is obsolete - navigate by cosmic ray device!

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Created by berowne > 9 months ago, 28 Jun 2023
berowne
NSW, 1383 posts
28 Jun 2023 11:54AM
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New navigation system works even when GPS fails (freethink.com)
www.freethink.com/hard-tech/navigation-system

Cosmic navigation: Researchers at the University of Tokyo have now developed a new type of navigation system in which receivers detect muons - subatomic particles created by collisions between cosmic rays and particles in Earth's atmosphere - rather than satellite signals. "Cosmic-ray muons fall equally across the Earth and always travel at the same speed regardless of what matter they traverse, penetrating even kilometers of rock," said researcher Hiroyuki Tanaka.

remery
WA, 3158 posts
28 Jun 2023 4:39PM
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We can go speed sailing in caves.

jn1
SA, 2477 posts
28 Jun 2023 7:57PM
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Great discovery !. Although, the article mentioned GPS's vulnerability of being s****ed - sort of implying this new system can't. If so, then I disagree with that implication.

aeroegnr
1644 posts
28 Jun 2023 7:32PM
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Just imagine the arguments about gps vs muon and device accuracy for who has the new best PB/alpha by .001 kts.

sailquik
VIC, 6141 posts
29 Jun 2023 12:15PM
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Interesting future tech.

I can imagine Muon augmented GPS location possibly being a thing at some distant future time.

But we dont use Locational data for our most accurate consumer device speed calculations now, and they are not claiming very accurate locational fixes just yet, or predicting it for quite some time yet, so I can't see this taking over from Doppler GPS speed for quite a while.

Ben1973
988 posts
19 Jul 2023 9:56AM
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remery said..
We can go speed sailing in caves.


No wind in caves

decrepit
WA, 12315 posts
19 Jul 2023 2:21PM
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Ben1973 said..
No wind in caves


What about blow holes?



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"GPS is obsolete - navigate by cosmic ray device!" started by berowne