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0 pointsMengerSponge3mo ago0 comments

And you've defined a harder problem! Once you've found it once it's much easier to find in the future: it can only go so fast, and it's constrained to stay in relatively deep water.

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NooneAtAll33mo ago· 2 in thread

to be fair "relatively deep water" is 99% of seas and oceans...

bigfatkitten3mo ago

And “only so fast” can be north of 30 knots. The vessel could today be 1000km in any direction from where it was when you found it yesterday.

gorbachev3mo ago

Yes, but if you know the general direction of where it's going that reduces the search area quite a bit.

In this case, for example, the French Government publicly announced where it's going.

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