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To: Red Badger
I thought the Earth's magnetic North is migrating yearly, and that we're overdue for a magnetic "flip" of the poles?

Before my day in the Air Force, and way before GPS, B-52 bombers and ICBM missiles were equipped with Startrackers that could lock onto and track a star, even in daytime. The obvious problem, however, is cloud cover...

17 posted on 08/07/2020 8:07:33 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

The BUFF Astro Tracker was very difficult to maintain. Tube, mechanical computers and lost of components in the wheel well that were sprayed with the elements.


35 posted on 08/07/2020 8:39:39 AM PDT by Arones (When Leftists are in a minority, then they look for other ways to win.)
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To: Yo-Yo; Kaslin; Ernest_at_the_Beach

Yes, the north magnetic is crossing the line between the geographic north pole and the international date line this summer. Weakening also. The south magnetic pole? Little change!


74 posted on 08/07/2020 12:19:39 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE ( I can only donate monthly, but the radical ABCNNBCBS does it every hour on their news.)
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