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Re:Bird with GPS flies into typhoon, carried 700 miles, reac... by quickthrower2 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:24PM (#38032475)
This is probably like when you swim out at the beach, and back and find you are 20m away from where you started due to currents. But you didn’t feel it.

With dead reckoning you could probably figure out.

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Re:Bird with GPS flies into typhoon, carried 700 miles, reac... by lxgr on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:59PM (#38032730)
You can’t feel linear/unaccelerated motion, and biological organisms aren’t great at indirectly deriving it from acceleration and rotation over time the way inertial navigation systems do.
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Re:Bird with GPS flies into typhoon, carried 700 miles, reac... by stouset on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:39AM (#38034754)
Hell, even those have a hard time doing it without experiencing drift! So they periodically re-establish a baseline using something like GPS.
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