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Basically the probe knows where it is because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the probe from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.

>>vntok+(OP)
Ok, what is this quote from?

>>mcguir+m8
https://web.archive.org/web/20031218192524/http://w3.uwyo.ed...

>>wizofa+n9
Wait, i don't understand. I was under the assumption that this text was a joke, but now I'm seeing it in reference to air force training materials? Is it a joke there as well or did someone actually write this text seriously, and plan for it's use as intelligible instruction?

>>wholin+Gm
There's oodles of references to this online but nothing really I've found so far explaining whether it was ever intended to be taken seriously in the first place. It's hard to imagine anyone doing so.

>>wizofa+Ko
It's apparently from the 50s, as seen here: https://archive.org/details/sim_electronics-now_1959-03_30_3...

>>wholin+Gm
Yes, it's a joke. It's not complete nonsense, though, unlike the Turboencabulator. There's a real explanation buried inside there. ("Where it isn't" is the target position, so it's looking at the deviation between where it currently is, and where it should be. The next time step, "where it wasn't" is the old target position, and so forth.)

>>mcguir+m8
David Tennant's narration of the new W1A series in which the BBC launch a syncapatasatellite?

>>vntok+(OP)
I've heard this as a sample in a song, but can't recall which.

>>wizofa+n9
That's the voice. :-D

>>opan+Im2
I believe it is a Meat Beat Manifesto track, though I'm not sure which one.