The missile knows where it is song

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The Missile Knows Where It Is is a copypasta based on an audio segment from a 1997 Air Force training video. Due to the lengthy and repetitive nature of the copypasta, it is popularly used in musical remixes.

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How do cruise missiles find their target?
How do missiles work?

Origin

The Missile copypasta can be found on the internet as early as 2003, according to the Wayback Machine archive for an obscure page on the University of Wyoming website, Titled "Missile Guidance for Dummies"[1].The page links to a pdf called “Association of Air Force Missileers,” with the original text for the Missile copypasta found on page 5[2]. As well as the text, the website links to an audio recording reading the specific passage.

The transcription for the audio is as follows:

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.
The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

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The Missile Meme first appeared on Youtube in 2007 in the video “The missile knows where it is (portfolio length)” by Inimicu, where a student appears to be listening to the missile meme for a school project[3]. The raw audio itself was posted to Youtube in August 11, 2012 by Jeff7181, where it has since amassed over 360,000 views[4].

The Missile copypasta was posted to Reddit’s r/copypasta subreddit in September 04, 2016[5]. Since then, various remixes have been created on 4chan, with the most well-known version using the instrumental from Dr. Dre’s “Still D.R.E.” On Youtube, one such remix was uploaded by Krasniye, where it has amassed 112,000 views since its posting in March 12, 2017[6].

Starting around early 2019, the Missile meme starting seeing a surge on Twitch via media-sharing on various people’s streams. It appeared several times in different remixes on Asmongold’s livestream in January of 2019[7].

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External References

The Missile Knows Where It Is is a meme that is based on a 1997 training video. The script of the video is very repetitive, being based on how the missile gets to its target.

Origins

As said above, it comes from a 1997 Air Force training video about missile guidance. Similar text can be found here on page 5.

This was later uploaded to youtube in 2012, but it wasn't very known until recently

Script

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or a deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.

In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.

The Missile Knows Where It Is...

The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

How do cruise missiles find their target?

Cruise Missiles. Cruise missiles are jet-propelled pilotless aircraft designed to strike distant targets with great accuracy. Traveling at hundreds of miles an hour, cruise missiles use the global positioning system, inertial guidance, optical scenery correlation, and terrain comparing radar to find their targets.

How do missiles work?

The missile is propelled either by rockets or jet engines using solid or liquid fuel. Some missiles use hybrid technology for propelling it to its intended point. The function of the guidance system is to maintain the missile in its desired flight path by using altitude control mechanism.