"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
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"Martin Baxter" wrote in message
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Bob Crantz wrote:

Joe,


However, there are piles of dead birds to be found at the poles. Birds,
and
other animals, have small bits of paramagnetic material in their skulls
that
help with direction finding. Once they get near the poles they try to
fly
straight up and eventually fall to the ground from exhaustion.

You have a wonderfully inventive imagination!

An even bigger problem is GPS navigation near the true poles. To a GPS
unit
all direction is lost at the pole.

Why would this be? I don't see why the location algorithym should become
invalid at these locations.

Ooops!

It's the singularity for inertial navigational platforms, not GPS. The GPS
reference are satellites. The inertial system includes the rotation of the
earth. At the pole, there is no rotation.

I almost burned in hell for that one!

Were your cerebral algorithms scrambled slightly?

Max