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Originally Posted by Dop
My guess is they've got something more like a radio beacon which allows them to track a heading to/from that beacon, than a GPS which requires satellites.
The author just has them refer to it as a GPS as people know what that is and it saves having to explain stuff.
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Yes, the emitters are in Japan (on the ground) and not in space. Didn't he call radios "cell phones" too? It's the same thing.
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Pretty lucky that the one successful migration was the one with the audio record.
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Re: Dunbar's number. Though it's not actually named, there is a funny explanation of the concept there:
https://www.cracked.com/article_1499...keysphere.html
Shame that the formatting is broken and the monkey pictures don't display. It's an old article.