NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Paul Jackson
Date: 2010 Feb 15, 16:27 +1300
Im a Chef & love celestial nav for the simple interaction it
provides me with our world around us. Some of the mathematical aspects are
great too even if they are a bit above my head but I am working on that.
Paul W Jackson
From:
navlist-bounce@fer3.com [mailto:navlist-bounce@fer3.com] On Behalf
Of Frank Reed
Sent: Monday, 15 February 2010 4:09 PM
To: NavList@fer3.com
Subject: [NavList] Physics degrees and navigation
I'm taking a poll:
How many NavList members have degrees in physics or astrophysics?
I think it's a significant fraction of our active members. There's me, of
course. Also, I believe that the following people have all said that they have
physics degrees of one sort or another: George Huxtable, John Karl, John Huth,
Peter Hakel, Geoffrey Kolbe. How many others? I'm just curious --you won't be
put on any list ;-). I suspect that people who have studied physics are a sort
of "natural audience" for the mathematical aspects of celestial
navigation and positional astronomy.
While I'm thinking demographics, I remember Luis Soltero during his
presentation at Mystic Seaport back in 2006 mentioned that he had the strange
feeling that a lot of his customers for his celestial navigation software were
dentists (!). Do we have any dentists on NavList??
-FER
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