GPS System Could Fail Next Year

[MikeBjerum]

Ranger up and award it to him yourself........Damn fine post, Peg, Damn fine post.

I think we accomplished what we wanted to through paging you multiple times.

[twyacht]

Ranger up and award it to him yourself........Damn fine post, Peg, Damn fine post.

No doubt.

There are a FEW, and I mean a FEW, that continue the age old, tried and true method of celestial navigation, kinda like a compass and Boy Scouts, but far more accurate.

Sailors, scouts, mountain men, Indians, Marines, Seals, etc,... (lowly Florida boys, who were taught by old men), can take a watch, compass, and a clear view of the sky and literally find a COG (course over ground), about as good as a GPS.

It saved my butt in the Everglades after breaking down in a 16' Jon Boat and finally getting it running after filtering fuel with a T-shirt. Point being it was after dark, and flat, no landmarks, and turned around six ways from Sunday. The constellation Orion is in direct line with the Little Dipper, which rises in the South in Florida Summer's.

Damn that Farmer's Almanac, and Navy Veteran Grandfather's. God Bless Em' Both.

I've installed too many Nav systems on boats and asked Captain's what would you do if this and your redundant failed?

Too many times I've heard called the Coast Guard.

That is an option for those who haven't studied enough.

[Timothy]

It takes three pencils or straight sticks and a few rubber bands and you have one fine sextant if you know how to use it!

Amazing what we think we need in the "New Age of Enlightenment".....

[tombogan03884]

Magellan got around the world with an astrolabe and a compass, while the genius sheeple need satellite communications to get around town. These A holes really are pathetic.

[Timothy]

In New England, we navigate based on the location of the next Dunkin Donuts!!!


 

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[tombogan03884]

In New England, we navigate based on the location of the next Dunkin Donuts!!!


 

ABSOLUTELY 

[Ping]

Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks anymore.  Tried teaching my boys about astronomy. Went over like a turd in a punch bowl. They just weren't interested. Video games have killed any chance of having and utilizing their imagination. They can shoot their ass off and fish with the best of them but are brain dead when it comes to common sense, lol. 

[tombogan03884]

Sorry Ping but I HATE Starbucks, every year my sister sends me a pound of their coffee, the first year I tried drank, every year since I have rewrapped it and given it to someone else as it tastes like crap, and if you remember the "Coffee" thread I'm not that fussy about my brew.
As for astronomy , I was never real interested in it, I just learned a couple for navigation.

[Ping]

Trust me Tom, I am not into Starbucks Corporate Coffee either. Just seems like there is a Starbucks on every corner anymore. Can't see how people pay such a high price for "sissified" coffee. 

Astronomy rocks. Love the clear nights where most of the sky can be observed. 

[graywolf]

How in the daylights am I going to get from Point A to Point B without my Garmin?  Seriously, let's cut some funding for the study of the amount of whale droppings in the Pacific Ocean and use it to upgrade and fix the system.  Our national security depends on it.