People keep asking how the trace feels so real, so we are lifting the hood. The short answer is that suspense is a craft, and we treat it like one. Every pause, every ping, every hesitation before the reveal is tuned like a scene in a thriller that ends in a joke.
There are no real satellites in the loop, no towers being pinged, no location ever computed. It is animation, timing, and a bit of misdirection, all running entirely in your browser and touching nothing on the outside. Our tracking explainer lays out what is genuinely happening versus what is pure showmanship.
The hardest engineering problem was not accuracy. It was restraint: making the fake trace convincing enough to thrill you, honest enough to reassure you seconds later.
That balance is the whole show. Come watch the magic trick again at the tracker, now that you know there was never anything up our sleeve.