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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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