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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2009 Aug 10, 13:07 -0400
Peter, you wrote:
I think we all agree that this is not the best way of getting a celestial fix, Jeremy himself said so. For me this was a valuable learning experience and I thank Jeremy for sharing his measurements with us. Many discussions on this list
pertain to what to do when a better method is not available for some reason. Recently I was explaining the merits of CelNav to some family members, and their reaction was: "Why don't you just use GPS?" :-)
I just got the same response when demonstrating a boxwood sector to one of the staff engineers here. He is a relatively recent graduate, but quite talented. When I explained that the sector can be used to multiply
numbers and do trigonometric functions, he responded “Why don’t you just use a calculator?”
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