Not being DEPENDENT on technology is a skill-set guys; because with one EMP blast, the RESET button gets punched and we are back to the stone age. I will be posting more on this. -SF
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Albert Einstein
It was how Odysseus sailed the seas, how Columbus reached the Americas, and how Lawrence of Arabia found his way across the vast, featureless deserts of the Middle East.
For millennia, travellers used the stars to guide them on their journeys – a technique which, in recent decades, has been replaced by modern technology.
But now the US navy is reinstating classes on celestial navigation for all new recruits, teaching the use of sextants – instruments made of mirrors used to calculate angles and plot directions – because of rising concerns that computers used to chart courses could be hacked or malfunction.
“We went away from celestial navigation because computers are great,” said Lt. Cmdr. Ryan Rogers, the deputy chairman of the naval academy’s Department of Seamanship and Navigation. “The problem is there’s no backup.”
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Far too many people rely on GPS,cell-phone apps, and other electronic devices for land nav here in the U.S.
When I was working for an outfitter in Montana,most of the “flatlanders” from the east also assumed they would have cell phone access everywhere.
Maybe 1 out of 10 could find the camp on a topo map after being given very detailed directions -that was just with map spread out on table.
The FTX part was like watching a comedy movie.
Then there’s the 80% or so of them who claimed they could shoot as accurately as any sniper-this was generally disproved within their first hour at the ranch,where at 300 yds from several picnic tables re-purposed as shooting benches were 9″ paper plates-(slightly smaller than the kill zone of an elk)- with each hunters name written on them in black marker stapled to 4’x8′ sheets of plywood that had been screwed to 4″x4″ posts Quickcreted into the ground.
Never seen so many “snipers” miss 9″ targets @ 300 yds.
Celestial navigation is a skill all of us should know–or learn as soon as possible.