http://www.govexec.com/defense/2015/10/navy-reinstating-ancient-art-celesti=
al-navigation/122833/
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John Gardner <goflo3@gmail.com> wrote:
>...500 years ago it was well known that the Earth was not flat...
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>Certainly well-known to navigators...  I suppose GPS, etc, has
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>rendered such practical knowledge nugatory -  I'm told the US
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>Naval Academy no longer teaches Celestial Navigation.
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>Perhaps our cousins in the RN are a bit more stuck in the mud...
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