Re: GPS vs. the noble sextant

2000-07-12 Thread Roger Bailey
At 11:54 AM 7/12/00 -0400, J.Tallman wrote: >I heard a story on the radio this morning about the proposed US missile >defense system, and the official reaction of China to such a system. Not that >I am paranoid at all, but they were quoted as saying, among other scary >things, that they would at

GPS vs. the noble sextant

2000-07-12 Thread J.Tallman
Hello All,   Claude wrote:   "The advent of satellite technology has made all this very much ahistorical question.  Is it true that US Naval midshipmen no longerstudy use of the sextant?  You can only hope that the GPS or radio inyour lifeboat has good batteries."   I certainly hope that this