Fun fact, Snakes on a Place is an example of a "escalator pitch". As in, if you were going down an escalator and a director was going up another, the pitch is just long enough to catch the Directors attention before they pass by. lol
Stephen is wrong about GPS. Your GPS unit doesn't send out any signal at all. It receives the synchronized and exceedingly accurate clock signals from several satellites and uses the difference between them (caused by the different distances to each satellite) to triangulate itself.
Fun fact, Snakes on a Place is an example of a "escalator pitch". As in, if you were going down an escalator and a director was going up another, the pitch is just long enough to catch the Directors attention before they pass by. lol
I adore David Mitchell. I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Stephen is wrong about GPS. Your GPS unit doesn't send out any signal at all. It receives the synchronized and exceedingly accurate clock signals from several satellites and uses the difference between them (caused by the different distances to each satellite) to triangulate itself.
one of our small aircraft crashed today......rip to all
Fry is immensely intelligent, cultured, and informed. Unfortunately his attitude is frequently terribly pompous and patronizing.
Also part of his charm