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This comment got me wondering how important it is for navigation to take into account relativistic time dilation in GPS. Apparently: very. Turns out that ignoring it would cause a drift in position of about 10km/day. http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps....


nice dig!




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