Every time you open Google Maps, you’re relying on 31 satellites, atomic clocks accurate to one second every 300 million years, and a relativistic correction Albert Einstein made possible in 1915.

Most people use GPS dozens of times a day and have no idea how it actually works. In this episode of The Static Frontier, we break down the real mechanism — from satellites and signal timing to why the word “triangulation” is wrong, and why GPS would be 6 miles off within a day if we didn’t correct for Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

🔍 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
• How GPS calculates your position using signal travel time — not angles
• Why trilateration is different from triangulation (and why it matters)
• How atomic clocks work and why they’re accurate to 1 second per 300 million years
• Why Einstein’s relativity theories are baked into every GPS calculation
• How your phone blends satellites, cell towers, and Wi-Fi to track you indoors
• Why a GPS outage would crash financial markets, power grids, and air traffic control

🎙️ ABOUT THE STATIC FRONTIER:
Science and technology explained like you’re hearing it for the first time. New episode every week, 20–30 minutes. Also on Spotify and Apple Podcasts — search “The Static Frontier.”

Most people have heard of the dark web. Almost nobody actually understands it.

In our very first episode, Alex and Morgan pull back the curtain on the 96% of the internet your browser never shows you. It’s not what true crime documentaries made you think — and the real story is far stranger and more fascinating than the myth.

Here’s what we get into:
•The difference between the Surface Web, the Deep Web, and the Dark Web — and why most people get this completely wrong

•How the dark web was actually invented by the United States Navy in the 1990s — not by criminals

•What “onion routing” is and how it makes anonymity structural, not just a setting you toggle

•What’s legitimately on the dark web right now — including why The New York Times and ProPublica both have addresses there

•Why this matters in 2026 more than ever — AI, billion-record data breaches, and what law enforcement has figured out

•Three things you can do today to find out if your data is already out there — and what to do if it is
No PhD required. Just curiosity.