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Re: The "big" sextant manufactures
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2007 Nov 04, 21:53 -0500
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2007 Nov 04, 21:53 -0500
Ken Gebhart, you wrote: "I would like to state from my perspective that celestial navigation is surprising healthy today, and not as a hobby, and not as a back-up, but as a "cool" thing to do. For the same reason people want to sail (it's not quick, and it's not cheap), they seem eager to adopt celestial into their list of things they want to do and understand. " If I do something because it's "cool", isn't that a hobby? I suppose the problem is that the word "hobby" is a little down-market and trivializing. So what's a better word? Intellectual sport, maybe? By the way, I've known more than a few people who've taken up an interest in celestial navigation because they think sextants are cool. But when they discover that the sextant part is over in five minutes and the rest is boring math, they quickly realize that it's quite the opposite of "cool". :-) -FER http://www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
