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October 21, 2015 by Marc Handelman in Navigation, All is Information, Mathematics

Andrea Peterson, writing at The Washington Post, reports on the increased education and utility of celestial navigation (as opposed to Computational and GPS navigation). Fascinating.

Steering a ship by the stars fell out of favor with the rise of radio wave and GPS navigation. In fact, the U.S. Naval Academy stopped teaching the skill nearly 20 years ago. But now this ancient navigation is making a comeback at the Annapolis school, thanks to cybersecurity fears, according to the Capital Gazette.

"We went away from celestial navigation because computers are great," Lt. Cmdr. Ryan Rogers, the deputy chairman of the academy's Department of Seamanship and Navigation, told the Gazette. "The problem is, there's no backup." - via Andrea Peterson reporting at The Washington Post

October 21, 2015 /Marc Handelman
Navigation, All is Information, Mathematics
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