pursue*

and... misspelling, not misspell

The question still stands! 😛

My hobbies change frequently, but recently I've been playing with the stock market

I'm ok at grammar but will always suck at spelling. I've learned to accept this.

Long ago, a made a deal with the devil to trade all off my brain cells that worked out spelling to be used for mathematics 😛

Hence my request for Revaeroski to scold me properly if he ever spotted me making a mathematical error.

So you like math, do ya?

Especially trigonometry

how much money have hedge funders lost on the GME short selling?

I don't dabble in the stock market

but it's a lot of fun if you like math

I use mathematics with astronomy.

True, but that doesn't mean I use it for anything you yourself would use it for.

You're conflating a general use for a specified use.

use it a bit in aviation as well

That's nice.

especially if you're navigating with dead reckoning with a compass and stop watch only

That's pretty much how it was done before the 1990s 😛

Nah, before that even

" before that even " ... You're not making sense now.

VOR to VOR was before GPS and that's pretty old

VOR? I've never heard of that.

VHF Omindirectional Radio

Ok I see how that can be a thing.

Radio light houses

Instead of visible light, you ping with lower frequency

Sort of, it emits a radio frequency and you tune your receiver to it and can intercept the signal or go directly towards it (or away from it) and use it along with another VOR station to triangulate your position

That would only work on " short " range though

VHF is very high frequency

Could it bounce off the ionisphere like HAM signals?

Lower frequencies travel further but VHF can be picked up hundreds of nautical miles away depending on how it's setup and the surrounding terrain

ok then the answer would be yes. I get it.

I never knew about VOR.

but back to dead reckoning with a compass and stop watch, you'd need to calculate how far you're doing that for, the speed you're going, the speed and direction of the wind, the correction to your heading to offset that wind, etc..

But still tbh, I'm so ol school, I'd preffer the watch and the telescope.

or sextant, w/e you want to refer it as.

they didn't use a sextet for that in aviation, they used an e6b

it's a slide ruler

My BAC is on the rise lol

well, check it out, like I said, lots of math involved. Although with the fancy (and very expensive) glass cockpit setup with GPS and what not, it's all automatically done for you and not as fun