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Re: The flat earth notion
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2003 Nov 5, 11:11 -0400
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2003 Nov 5, 11:11 -0400
Does anyone know how the navigators of the Nautilus made their way underwater through the North Pole in 1958? They used an untried "Inertial Navigation System". Did they simply set their heading to True North and sail on that heading? There is a hint here, where the author says, "Have we found some new and reliable method of navigating under the North Pole, where all the lines of Longitude converge making Arctic navigation just about impossible? Not that we know of!": http://www.nautilus571.com/book_excerpt.htm Mercator would have loved to have seen this chart image: http://www.nautilus571.com/arctic-route.htm. Jim Thompson jim2@jimthompson.net www.jimthompson.net Outgoing mail scanned by Norton Antivirus ----------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: Navigation Mailing List > [mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM]On Behalf Of Walter Guinon > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:24 AM > > I believe that infinite time would be required to reach the pole while > traveling along a loxodrome at finite speed. > The heading angle after passing through the pole after the expiration of > infinte time is a question for the theologians. > > > On a spheroidal earth, if you proceed on a rhumb line with > constant speed, > you will arrive at a pole after a finite time.
