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Old 05-02-07, 04:17 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by anthrax
The "Postion Keeper" constantly calculates the position of the target in relation to the submarine. So in effect, it was definately was capable "knowing where the own ship location was.
I don't quite understand. The Position Keeper is only as accurate as the information fed into it, so it should go to pieces if the target changes course while nobody's looking. How does that make it know where it is (the GIGO principle comes to mind; even a modern computer doesn't have that ability unless data is updated constantly from a GPS system).
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