Tried a flat earth simulation game last week and it actually changed my mind about something trivial

Sat down at my buddy Dave's house and played this cheap Unity thing where you navigate a flat earth model. Turns out the GPS coordinates still worked perfectly for 3 hours straight, which made me realize how little I actually know about satellite tech. Has anyone else seen a proof that backfired on their own argument?

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aaron_ellis4219d ago

Wait, hold on, the GPS actually worked for three hours straight on a flat earth model? That's crazy. I figured those games would break the second you tried to use real world data in them, not prove the whole thing works fine. That honestly makes me wonder how much of the whole "satellites are fake" argument is just people not understanding how the math works either way. It almost sounds like the simulation got coded to match real world results, not the other way around.

ericp6719d ago

Dave's got this crazy old GPS unit from like 2006 and we tested it on that flat earth game too... it locked onto satellites just fine for a whole afternoon. Made me realize I'd been parroting stuff about GPS without really knowing how it works.