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Re:The B-52 was designed in a hotel room over one weekend by throw0101c on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @10:43AM (#32837953)
> Another HN commenter mentioned GPS being designed over a holiday. But we spent years and years in the military debugging GPS and making it functional.

GPS/Navstar also wasn't the first system:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_(satellite)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Pred...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_navigation#History

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