On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:08:02 -0700, Gordon wrote:

Dutton wrote:
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:26:00 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

Can you navigate (lat and long) at night with a sextant and a compass, but
without a nautical almanac, sight reduction tables, the time of day, and
without knowing the names of the stars? The sextant has an error, but you
don't know what it is, just that it's off. You can keep your modern watch,
but you just replaced the battery and the time is wrong.



Why do you need all that stuff? The south pacific islander types
followed the appropriate star in the appropriate constellation and got
along just fine!
Gordon


Well, possible. Of course those times it didn't quite work we didn't
hear about it...

Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:08:02 -0700, Gordon wrote:

Dutton wrote:
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:26:00 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

Can you navigate (lat and long) at night with a sextant and a compass, but
without a nautical almanac, sight reduction tables, the time of day, and
without knowing the names of the stars? The sextant has an error, but you
don't know what it is, just that it's off. You can keep your modern watch,
but you just replaced the battery and the time is wrong.

Why do you need all that stuff? The south pacific islander types
followed the appropriate star in the appropriate constellation and got
along just fine!
Gordon


Well, possible. Of course those times it didn't quite work we didn't
hear about it...

Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)

Thats how they discovered new islands! They were knowm as the Fugawis!
Like. "Where the Fugawi?"
Gordon