Just remembered a funny little exchange we had with our son on our way up to Tahoe last weekend.
We’re driving along, with our GPS turned on for directions. A female voice keeps telling us where to turn and how far it is till the next whatever….. All of a sudden our son starts asking about how the GPS works. We’ve had the thing for almost a year now, not sure why he felt like he needed to know this stuff now. I’m driving, so my wife tries explaining. She goes on with quite an elaborate explanation about how there is a satellite in outer space that sends coordinates to our little GPS unit, and that the unit then translates those coordinates and shows them to us on a map, etc, etc.
We could hear cogs turning in his head at this point, and after a moment of silence, he finally asks:
– So, Is there a lady up there in space, in that satellite, talking to us?