Longitude

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Title text: Found while reading Augustus de Morgan's narcotic 'Budget of Paradoxes' Volume 1.

Votey

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1999

By measuring the time between the sound and the flash, you can calculate the distance to a given station and figure out where you are.

These were never built.

Boom!

There was nearly a timeline where blackbeard the pirate coexisted with gigantic explosion-based lighthouses in the middle of the sea.

Instead, decades later, a guy named harrison invented a clock that was a really good clock.

300m

Woo.

Wont to enighiidace you

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Ignorance isn't bliss, but it beats the shit out of knowing stuff.

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