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The Missile Knows Where It Is...
Jeff7181
A short clip of the famous Hitchhiker-style circular narration of a missile guidance system explaining how it knows where it is by knowing where it isn't. It is a deadpan bit of technical-sounding absurdity about subtraction and navigation.
HN commenters post it as an obligatory joke reply whenever threads touch on missiles, GPS, or circular reasoning.
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