• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      2 days ago

      I doubt it’ll ever be used on commercial aircraft, since they do have GPS and all the other things there isn’t really any point adding a yet another system. Especially because it requires cooling, if it gets too warm it stops working, and buy too warm I mean the temperature of interplanetary space is too warm. Basically has to be absolute zero or bust.

      • turmacar@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

        Who knows.

        Special relativity was a niche branch of interest until we needed to correct for time signal differences between moving satellites. Quantum mechanical understanding of electrons was a weird quirk of math until they used electron buckets to make SSDs.

        Publically funded general research leads to unexpected uses.