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| GPS Not Working? Try Using Lightning to Find Your Way |
| 2014-07-30 |
| Geez. For personal reasons, I hope DARPA never deigns it important to develop a better idiot. When I was in the army we had these things called "maps" that were broken down into "grids." We would occasionally find our way with something called a "compass." I suspect that the word comes from the Latin "compos," as in "non compos mentis," but I'm probably wrong. |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #8 Watching husband/wife trailer-backing festivities was always a great source of entertainment on family camping vacations. We used tents. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-07-30 23:31 |
| #7 Yes the Nagivator does all that, including forced air con directly in the face..... But you should watch all the gesticulating whilst trying to direct the backing of a trailer.....huge amounts of hilarity for all (especially bystanders)but Mr. Goodwrench...... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2014-07-30 23:27 |
| #6 Does your Navigator also automatically adjust the vents, radio settings, etc.? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-07-30 17:06 |
| #5 Whenever I am in unfamiliar country and driving, I can always count on my Nagivator to inform me of my missed turn, excessive speed, too hot/cold, excessive speed, wrong turn..... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2014-07-30 15:41 |
| #4 AlanC: When you are directed to the Michale Peck page, scroll down. The story will be there. Btw, only Philistines read "maps." Navigators use charts! ;) |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-07-30 12:01 |
| #3 Wondered the same thing PK2. Does the army still use FM 3.25-26 (FM 21-26) map reading & navigation? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-07-30 10:44 |
| #2 We would occasionally find our way with something called a "compass." And sometimes we'd find our way by reading terrain that was displayed on said "maps" with various standardized symbology. Our brethren in the Navy had something call a sextant, which along with something called the Naval Observatory Almanac, they could employ to determine their location any place at sea (which tended to lack terrain indicators). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-07-30 09:00 |
| #1 Link don't work for me. All I get is "Michael Peck Jul 29" The comments are funny but I don't get the context 8^( |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-07-30 08:16 |