Next message: Doug Barnard: "TWL: RE: Time to Go!"
In a message dated 11/1/03 12:04:44 AM,
writes:
<< To me, reliability is tied directly to the probability of
failure. If the fellow quoted above lost his electrical system at sea,
or something happened to render his GPS units inoperable or unreliable,
he would have hauled that sextant out from under his bunk in a big
hurry. >>
Yeah, but if the sextant hadn't been used for years, its adjustments probably
would have been off, the mirrors might have needed resilvering, and he
wouldn't have the 20 lbs. of current tables necessary to navigate. In addition, the
sky would have been overcast and his chronometer might have stopped.
Larry Z
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