Ah! Spoilsport! 
Please dont let facts get in the way of a good joke! 
And besides what about our Lacuna friends and others…
Always wondered where Nicolas S got the inspiration for LoRa from …cold war radar implementations indeed!
Also could be gw seperation is 5m one way and 40074995m the otherway with the likely error/uncertainty values for the basic timestamp (ok yes I know EM travels in straight lines…) taking circumference as ~40075km 