Timeline for Do pilots need to know how to use a sextant?
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| Jul 14, 2016 at 8:22 | comment | added | Oscar Bravo | @Simon He was going to write the proof in the margin, but there wasn't enough room... | |
| Jul 14, 2016 at 6:00 | comment | added | Simon | Errr, no it's not. A sextant measures angles. It is not used, and cannot be used to measure the distance of celestial objects. . You have made a bizarre (and easily disproved) claim with no attribution. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. | |
| Jul 27, 2015 at 23:50 | comment | added | NormLDude | Funny you mention 3,000 miles, that's the exact distance that a sextant will give for the distance of the sun from the earth... but there is most certainly some kind of 'rational/scientific reasoning/mathmatical explanation' for that . (*Of wich, I, personally cannot provide at this point in time). | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 7:50 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 24, 2015 at 7:47 | history | answered | Oscar Bravo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |