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[–] hamsamrich@lemmy.world 178 points 1 day ago (43 children)

“Quantum sensors can sense the tiniest of changes in the gravity or magnetic field and use a previously prepared map of these properties to determine their location. Since a quantum sensor does not need to receive or send a signal to an external device, it cannot be hacked or be spoofed by a fake incoming signal either. “ Very cool!

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day ago (14 children)

*Cant be Non-magnetically hacked

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Cue magnetic mines, but where are you getting the gravitic mines from?

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

They just trigger degauss on 10,000 CRT monitors simultaneously.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If it works off tiny changes in gravity, a really big rock would work.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Our mission is to sneak this Ayers rock under the boat without being detected. In and out. 45 minutes tops.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

And that rock? The moon.

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Most people probably don’t know but we call it Uluru these days as that’s what the local Aboriginal people named it. Ayers Rock is the old coloniser name, and pretty out of fashion.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I know and I am sorry, but the joke would have gone over the head for most of the people if I had said Uluru.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 day ago

I was going to say something about the scale of gravity changes needed, but your take is way better. Cheers.

[–] SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Well, to be fair, a big rock would also work on a GPS device, if applied directly to it.

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 3 points 21 hours ago

Might as well just hit the ship with a really big rock at that rate

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago

It's a bit obvious that isn't it. Hey captain there appears to be a ship with a giant boulder on board and it's following us around, do you think that might be relevant?

[–] masta_chief@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

Ah time to make use of my massive tungsten cube

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