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xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings (imgs.xkcd.com)
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xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings

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If you don't know where you are on Earth, the angle of satellite dishes can help constrain your latitude. If some of them are pointing straight up, you're probably near the Equator, right under the ring.

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If you don't know where you are on Earth, the angle of satellite dishes can help constrain your latitude. If some of them are pointing straight up, you're probably near the Equator, right under the ring.
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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Go near the equator and look at where satellite dishes are pointed. They're not typically straight up, they tend to be pointed pretty far east/west depending on where you are exactly.

Most countries don't have their own satellites specifically in line with them, they're often all using the same ones.

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