It does, but you gotta think of it as an engineer and not a scientist. Engineers are all about taking the easy way out. And frankly, there's just no need to design a system that accurate. Once you're within a km of something, you're probably already using detection devices, like old-fashioned cameras, to do your navigating. And we've only produced one object that has left the solar system. It will be hundreds, if not thousands of years before that kind of system needs to be implemented. Right now, we just don't have the need or technology to implement a dynamic system.

Well, no I got that, I pretty much cotton'd on to it once you pointed out they had just gone ahead and scraped by, then I put it together with the five klick maximum deviation that they had just settled for something workable in a first generation system.
But wonderful clarification anyways. It's kind of easy to forget we haven't really gotten much under our belt in the way of even system-wide travel, y'know? I'm just worried that my grandchildren's grandchildren's etc might end up in some gas giant from using bootleg 21st century positioning algorithms.

Nope, they just found pulsars that are moving so slow, they can be approximated as static. You gotta remember, they're so far away, we can barely perceive their movement. It won't affect a triangulation system at all.

I feel like that puts an operational limit on range, lifetime and accuracy and in no way recognize the validity of settling for a design that merely works "pretty damn well all things considered" in favor of "provably accurate to the nearest planck length."
Go figure. Lazy goddamn astrophysicists.

It does, but you gotta think of it as an engineer and not a scientist. Engineers are all about taking the easy way out. And frankly, there's just no need to design a system that accurate. Once you're within a km of something, you're probably already using detection devices, like old-fashioned cameras, to do your navigating. And we've only produced one object that has left the solar system. It will be hundreds, if not thousands of years before that kind of system needs to be implemented. Right now, we just don't have the need or technology to implement a dynamic system.

Well, no I got that, I pretty much cotton'd on to it once you pointed out they had just gone ahead and scraped by, then I put it together with the five klick maximum deviation that they had just settled for something workable in a first generation system.
But wonderful clarification anyways. It's kind of easy to forget we haven't really gotten much under our belt in the way of even system-wide travel, y'know? I'm just worried that my grandchildren's grandchildren's etc might end up in some gas giant from using bootleg 21st century positioning algorithms.

lol i know right