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To: Gamecock

A cruise to Antarctica—ROTFLMAO!! To get there the ship’s navigator will use celestial navigation techniques and spherical trigonometry formulas that prove that the earth is an oblate spheroid because they work. I know because I’ve taken a number of celestial navigation courses.


18 posted on 06/19/2019 11:19:29 AM PDT by libstripper (q)
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To: libstripper

I wonder how they explain two ships at sea sailing apart suddenly can’t see each other at a fairly short distance no matter how powerful the optic they are using?


26 posted on 06/19/2019 11:33:30 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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