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- From: jfh@cs.brown.edu (John F. Hughes)
- Newsgroups: rec.boats
- Subject: Re: Celestial vs. GPS (was Re: Bermuda Trip - 7/'93)
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 14:33:26 GMT
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
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- References: <1992Dec28.193807.6974@smartstar.com> <C01Dpo.4p3@spss.com> <MARC.92Dec30085341@marc.watson.ibm.com>
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- In article <MARC.92Dec30085341@marc.watson.ibm.com> marc@watson.ibm.com (Marc Auslander) writes:
- >The discussion has so far ignored the dominant failure mode of
- >Celestial Navigation - namely foul weather. If you can't see the sky
- >or the horizon, celestial is down! And, in the midst of the storm,
- >its awefully nice to know where the hard stuff is!
-
- It's worth noting that foul weather provides a significant failure mode
- for electronic methods as well. Lightning is tough on microelectronics,
- and rough weather is hard on all systems in general. It seems to me
- that Murphy promises that you'll have your alternator die in the middle
- of the storm, rather than at your mooring...
-
- -John
-