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Navigator's Time Pieces
From: hellos
Date: 2006 Jun 1, 17:44 -0400
From: hellos
Date: 2006 Jun 1, 17:44 -0400
Pardon me but I think you will all get a good laugh at this. Check out http://www.thinkgeek.com and look at their selection of WATCHES. There's one that's perfect for celestial nav, a replica of Stonehenge complete with a compass, so you can determine local apparent time without any newfangled chronogizmometers. And, in a more modern vein, an electric Seiko wristwatch that has a replica of the entire globe, which rotates once every 24 hours. No digits, no hands, no numbers on either. Now, if they could slave that last one to a GPS and a gyro servo, you could do away with plotting and maps as well!