Comments on: Flippin’ Fields . . . https://habitablezone.com/2014/07/18/flippin-fields/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2014/07/18/flippin-fields/#comment-31344 ER Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:24:57 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=46349#comment-31344 https://www.starpath.com/catalog/accessories/HP2.htm You aim it like a rifle, and its damped with oil so you can shoot even from a rolling deck. Waterproof and shockproof, dead accurate and readable in complete darkness. Chris Columbus would have given his left nut for one of these. The Vikings would have given both. https://www.starpath.com/catalog/accessories/HP2.htm

You aim it like a rifle, and its damped with oil so you can shoot even from a rolling deck. Waterproof and shockproof, dead accurate and readable in complete darkness. Chris Columbus would have given his left nut for one of these. The Vikings would have given both.

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2014/07/18/flippin-fields/#comment-31343 DanS Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:36:11 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=46349#comment-31343 T’was a mere witticism, born of mine own night forays through Panamanian wildernesses, with naught but my trusty compasses and local charts to shepherd me and my crew, ER. Blazing under a double canopy, star-ranging required numerous slipping climbs to great, unsteady heights. Better, safer to remain earthbound. Ah, for my blessed lensatic, divided 360 times (degrees), and my amazing M2, sliced 6400 ways (mils), my radioactive companions, which saw us through so much... T’was a mere witticism, born of mine own night forays through Panamanian wildernesses, with naught but my trusty compasses and local charts to shepherd me and my crew, ER. Blazing under a double canopy, star-ranging required numerous slipping climbs to great, unsteady heights. Better, safer to remain earthbound.

Ah, for my blessed lensatic, divided 360 times (degrees), and my amazing M2, sliced 6400 ways (mils), my radioactive companions, which saw us through so much…

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2014/07/18/flippin-fields/#comment-31334 ER Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:58:49 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=46349#comment-31334 In fact, whatever amount it does finally settle down on will only be after a long period of variations and oscillations, and it will vary depending on where on earth you are. Also, the time scale over which this happens may be thousands of years, or will be interrupted by long periods of change and alternate behavior. And will it all begin (and end) suddenly, or gradually? We may just have to learn the stars, and pray for clear weather. In fact, whatever amount it does finally settle down on will only be after a long period of variations and oscillations, and it will vary depending on where on earth you are. Also, the time scale over which this happens may be thousands of years, or will be interrupted by long periods of change and alternate behavior. And will it all begin (and end) suddenly, or gradually?

We may just have to learn the stars, and pray for clear weather.

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2014/07/18/flippin-fields/#comment-31333 DanS Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:26:34 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=46349#comment-31333 Turn the bezel 180 degrees? (n/t) Turn the bezel 180 degrees? (n/t)

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2014/07/18/flippin-fields/#comment-31329 ER Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:06:05 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=46349#comment-31329 One of the few pieces of technology I feel comfortable with, have mastered completely and am capable of exploiting fully, is the magnetic compass. And now you're telling me it might just soon become obsolete? <img src="http://www.schoolofsailing.net/Images/compassrose.jpg" alt="." /> One of the few pieces of technology I feel comfortable with, have mastered completely and am capable of exploiting fully, is the magnetic compass. And now you’re telling me it might just soon become obsolete?

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