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Jordan's claim that by using cellular triangulation they could find Olivia's 'exact location', literally made me laugh out loud. Cellular triangulation (the technical term to describe the process that Jordan described to use cell phones towers to pinpoint's someone's location) is absurdly inaccurate, the location it gives could be off by as much as 100 miles. The problem is that cellular towers are generally not very close together, to really pinpoint the exact location of the person using a phone would require that the towers be very close to each other. But if the two people conversing are close enough, then they could even be using the same tower, which means that cellular triangulation becomes virtually useless.

Cellular triangulation was used back in the 1980's, before there was such a thing as GPS, it is almost never used today, because GPS is so much more accurate, GPS can get you within 500 meters of your desired location, cellular triangulation can only pinpoint a very broad area, you could be off by as much as 100 miles.

Trying to locate Olivia's location by cellular location is a complete joke.

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I was more impressed when Spinelli's hacked the clouds to part so the moon could shine on fair Samantha, maiden of the sea.

And then Spinelli said 'Let there be light', and there was light. And he said 'let be there Sonny', at which point, we all teamed up to draw and quarter him and feed his genitals to a pack of wild dogs.

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