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  • Naval Academy Reinstates Celestial Navigation: “After All, You Can’t Hack a Sextant”

    10/14/2015 1:30:23 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 72 replies
    crytpogon.com ^ | October 14th, 2015 | Capital Gazette
    With regard to the statement below, about shutting down GPS during a national emergency: The U.S. can Via: Capital Gazette:Officials reinstated brief lessons in celestial navigation this year, nearly two decades after the full class was determined outdated and cut from the curriculum.That decision, in the late 1990s, made national news and caused a stir among the old guard of navigators.Maritime nostalgia, however, isn’t behind the return.Rather, it’s the escalating threat of cyber attacks that has led the Navy to dust off its tools to measure the angles of stars.After all, you can’t hack a sextant.
  • Vanity Post - What is this thing?

    05/14/2002 9:37:45 PM PDT · by chaosagent · 14 replies · 12+ views
    I bought this item this evening in a gift shop. I thought it was called an astrolabe. But when I looked up astrolabe on Google it didn't look anything like those. The globe rotates around the arrow shaft. Any one have any ideas?