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Re: The Future of Celestial Navigation: A British Viewpoint
From: Hanno Ix
Date: 2013 Sep 2, 17:51 -0700
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From: Hanno Ix
Date: 2013 Sep 2, 17:51 -0700
May I chime in - even though I am not an active CelNav guy?
I cannot imagine there beeing still a technical reason for using CelNav.
No serious modern seafarer or pilot would use it to travel the Earth -
except in exotic circumstances, for instance as a back-up when you want to
deliver a single-engine airplane to some remote place across the sea
CelNav is an avocation, a hobby if you will. It could also be a sport with
competitions just like sailing. But a practical navigation tool? Not more so
than using wind jammers to transport oil!
And actually, that adds to its beauty. It is an elegant entry to astronomy,
it allows virtually anyone to fathom his location in the Universe, it introduces
you to the strange world of Non-Euklidean Geometry, it will demonstrate
the fantastic concepts of planetary movements, it allows you to
retrace the journeys of the great explorers.... I could find many more
reasons why people still do CelNav - no, why they are still
deeply fascinated by it.
This will not change in future centuris - CelNav touches the soul of
man.
h
From: Frank Reed <FrankReed@HistoricalAtlas.com>
To: hannoix@att.net
Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 3:19 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: The Future of Celestial Navigation: A British Viewpoint
To: hannoix@att.net
Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 3:19 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: The Future of Celestial Navigation: A British Viewpoint
Wolfgang, you wrote:
"regarding "PowerPoint is evil" I can only remember someone giving a - pretty interesting, by the way - PowerPoint presentation on the use of lunar distances..."
"regarding "PowerPoint is evil" I can only remember someone giving a - pretty interesting, by the way - PowerPoint presentation on the use of lunar distances..."
Ahh, Wolfgang. I'm afraid you don't really understand what people are saying when they talk about the PowerPoint problem and its "cognitive style". You should do some reading on it. The links I provided in my last post should get you started. Those two presentations of mine at Greenwich were NOT PowerPoint presentations in the narrow sense, and they were not PowerPoint-like in style. In fact, the slides that I created were very INTENTIONALLY not PowerPoint in style. I chatted with someone
after the first talk who specifically inquired about the style of the presentation slides and how much he liked them. Many of my slides were pure visuals --photos of logbook pages, for example. Others had a single image and only three or four words of text. They were TOOLS of the presentation rather than a slavish PP-style outline with a bullet for every point.
And you added:
"But what I really admire is the ease with which you utter scathing judgements about institutions and people you hardly know anything about."
"But what I really admire is the ease with which you utter scathing judgements about institutions and people you hardly know anything about."
Oh wow, Wolfgang... it's been a while since I've seen this sort of thing from you. But oh yes, it's still familiar. I am so sorry that you saw my comments as "scathing judgements". If you disagree with anything I said, I would be happy to discuss it with you --if you can be specific. As for any chance that I may have offended the hard-working staff of HMNAO, I am sure that they are well aware of the very limited
relevance of their work in the year 2013 and the resulting precarious nature of their employment status. This does not in any way reflect on their characters, and like everyone in the world (EVERYONE), I am sure they look after the apparent importance of their positions in the eyes of their employers.
-FER
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