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by wolfgke 2504 days ago
> Speaking of GPS, I've always wondered what their explanation is for how GPS works if there's no globe to speak of.

The common explanation seems to be that GPS is in reality some ground-based system (think some kind of a modernized LORAN):

Sources:

https://www.quora.com/How-do-the-flat-Earth-theory-believers...

https://www.quora.com/How-do-the-flat-Earth-theory-believers...

https://www.quora.com/How-do-the-flat-Earth-theory-believers...

According to the first link, there also exists a minority opinion among Flat Earthers that satellites might exist: "being swept along by whatever “cosmological current” it is that moves the sun and moon around in the complicated spirals needed to precisely reproduce the effect that’s so simple if the Earth is round. They won’t be able to explain why those currents do what they do - or why they move some satellites in one way and some in another…but that rather weak argument seems to suffice for their own benefit.".