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Re: Sextant Accuracy and anomalous dip
From: Rodney Myrvaagnes
Date: 2003 Mar 21, 23:16 -0500
From: Rodney Myrvaagnes
Date: 2003 Mar 21, 23:16 -0500
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:53:37 EST, Bruce Stark wrote: >I expect he already had the longitude. It's only reasonable to suppose that, >as soon as a cable was laid, Greenwich time was telegraphed from an >observatory so observers at the new station could determine the station's >exact position. By finding the local time at the station, and applying the Reasonable if they had previously measured the propagation speed for the cable. Any records of them doing this? Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a "We have achieved the inversion of the single note." __ Peter Ustinov as Karlheinz Stockhausen
