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Re: Still on LOPs
From: Rodney Myrvaagnes
Date: 2002 Apr 22, 12:33 -0500
From: Rodney Myrvaagnes
Date: 2002 Apr 22, 12:33 -0500
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 06:19:34 +1000, Peter Fogg wrote: > >What they were good at to a degree it is difficult to comprehend was observe >and take note of the myriad tiny natural signs which added up to a intuitive, >and useful, whole. Other people did the same, for example: Australian >aborigines could track some animal across a stony desert where a white >companion could see no track at all. Along the way he would learn not only We have no way of knowing what the success rate was for any of these unquantified methods. That doesn't mean they didn't work. OTOH, a well known near analog is the ability of experienced birders to make positive identifications of familiar species beyond their own eyesight resolution. Viking navigation is easier to explain. Mirages and Polaris. Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a "Curse thee, thou quadrant. No longer will I guide my earthly way by thee." Capt. Ahab