gene, you still don't understand what a reference point is. if I am 270 to The
Statue of Liberty and and 000 to the Fireboat House in Battery Park, I
definitely know I am.
On the other hand, if I am 270 from some unknown statue and 000 to some unknown
house, then I don't know where I am.
reference points are known, that is why they are reference points. if you
don't know where they are then they are not reference points, but rather merely
features on the seascape.
big difference. At least when trying to navigate around rocks in a fog.
gene, a reference point is a known quantity. that is the very definition of
the word "reference". if you don't know where it is it isn't a reference
point. and if you have reference points you are not DRing.
Jax, you are such a numbskull..... of course a reference point is a
known quantity. I am 280 degrees and 4 nautical miles from Rock "A,"
123 degrees from Rock "B," and 42 degrees from Rock "C."
I have three known quantities and still don't have enough information
to tell where in the state, hemisphere, or globe that I am.
The point that your stupid statement, " If you can see outside
reference points, then you KNOW where you are..." is patently false by
your later admission. The fact that I can "see outside" and locate
points "A," :B," and "C" says NOTHING about where I am in a meaningful
context.
You don't seem to understand that a vessel, unsure of its location, is
seeking reference points in accordance with its OWN location. If it
knew where the hell it was,it wouldn't need to be relying solely on
triangulating a fix. The conundrum, here, is correctly relating the
observed points with *actual* points... an error that has cost
countless lives in land, sea, and air navigation.... probably by
people that had nothing other than a laboratory understanding of the
earth... such as you....
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