{"id":8775,"date":"2015-10-15T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=8775"},"modified":"2015-10-15T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T15:00:23","slug":"u-s-navy-returns-to-celestial-navigation-amid-fears-of-computer-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/15\/u-s-navy-returns-to-celestial-navigation-amid-fears-of-computer-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy Returns to Celestial Navigation Amid Fears of Computer Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not being DEPENDENT on technology is a skill-set guys; \u00a0because 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<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Albert Einstein<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For millennia, travellers used the stars to guide them on their journeys \u2013 a technique which, in recent decades, has been replaced by modern technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But now the US<\/a> navy is reinstating classes on celestial navigation<\/a> for all new recruits, teaching the use of sextants \u2013 instruments made of mirrors used to calculate angles and plot directions \u2013 because of rising concerns that computers used to chart courses could be hacked or malfunction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe went away from celestial navigation because computers are great,\u201d 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.”<\/p>\n

Read the Remainder at Telegraph<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not being DEPENDENT on technology is a skill-set guys; \u00a0because 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2122,74,883,1286,65,1898],"tags":[2545,2546,2547,2548,2549],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}