Message from @Revaeroski
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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
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
guys I have a hot take
I have a decent sized telescope with a motorized EQ mount. I couldn't afford a computerized mount so I have to manually polar align. It's a laborous job to do without a computer.
cheese is sometimes much better than chocolate
It's very important I get these measurments correct in order to get decent long exposure pics.
On top of that... My Right Ascension Axis is warped 😐 After about 20 seconds of exposure, star streaks will become very defined... it sux
You ever play No Man's Sky? @kyzercube
Does it drive you nuts how they just throw physics completely out the window?
I know of the game. I have never played it though.