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Keep it up Frank. You are rarely wrong! Glad to hear you are human.
We are in survival mode. You are the best. Just keep going.
I've been teaching my kids and grandchildren CN and they love it, but they 
would never join Navlist. (Old man's club for them).
They do love face book , twitter etc but would never admit to their interest 
in CN to their peers. How uncool and dinosaur is that!
I'm amazed at the volume of traffic we still get.
I guess astronomy is the nearest successful example. Still going strong after 
thousands of years, with lots of youngsters pointing their cheep and fairly 
good telescopes at Jupiter moons etc.
I did a longitude from Jupiter with  a 14 year old recently. Not very 
accurate, (30 miles out)but you should have seen the light in his eyes! His 
IPad does not do this for him. Hope yet!
I think astronomy is the model. Kids love it.
Best wishes.
Francis 


-----Original Message-----
From: NavList@fer3.com [mailto:NavList@fer3.com] On Behalf Of Frank Reed
Sent: 20 September 2018 19:16
To: francisupchurch@gmail.com
Subject: [NavList] Re: Is Celestial Navigation really a backup to GPS Navigation?

Tom Sult, you wrote:
"I think this is worthy of a pause. Frank Reed was wrong?!  Not that he would 
not (and obviously did) recognize it. It is just that in the 10 years or so 
of being on this forum (not calling it “the list”, Frank) I have NEVER seen 
any evidence of Frank being wrong. He is mortal. And the world is right 
again."
Mortal? Bah! I'm an Olympian sort of immortal --we make mistakes but learn 
from them! Ha ha ha (I made the world wrong again).
Alas, we are all mortal, including corporate entities like NavList itself. I 
gave up last year on persuading everyone to stop referring to this 
"community" as a mailing list (as "the list"). Can't teach old dogs new 
tricks and all that, but more importantly, **there are no new dogs** and the 
old dogs are running out of new topics to discuss. The way things are going 
right now, NavList message traffic by the end of 2018 will probably be lower 
than it has been since 2003, fifteen long years ago and dating back to before 
I was even a member of the group. I encourage any and all of you to continue 
spreading the word about the NavList community since it remains the 
definitive, world's best online community for celestial navigation 
discussions. Let's breathe some life into it.
Frank Reed

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