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.

I've seen one video about no man's sky by Internet Historian

Lol

They'll have two planets pretty much right next to each other and completely ignore the roche limit

oh and asteroid fields are everywhere, not orbiting anything in particular, just floating there

@Revaeroski Rouche limit is when the gravity tidal forces break up shit... layman term definition 😛

right, and there's a distance where that comes into play between two massive bodies, correct?

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@Revaeroski Yeah I get what you're saying. Basically, the 2 bodies should either be merging as one, or the dominant body should be breaking up the inferior mass into a ring.

yes, they completely ignore that in no man's sky

for cool looking shots

but its still weird

That gets on your nerves? Heh, lots of ignored physics gets on my nerves, especially in movies...

and black holes have an animation where you can see stuff within the event horizon

I'll forgive that they use them as worm holes in the game, but the fact that you see anything crossing the event horizon bothers me

https://tenor.com/view/wait-that-thats-is-illegal-gif-18393263

Take the movie Gravity for example. 1: All the space craft are going East to West instead of West to East ( irl )

Elite Dangerous, even though most of it is procedurally generated, at least still follows the laws of physics, or at least attempts to

planets orbiting stars, stars sometimes orbiting other more massive stars, etc...

In Total Recal remake, the gravity elevator is messed up on so many levels it's pathetic. All the movie folk had to do was call a physicist. Irl if such an elevator existed, they'd be weightless the ENTIRE TRIP. and 2nd: You hear a lady on the PA saying " ETA 3 hours " and some change , when the actual trip irl would be 43 minutes.

I love watching Elite Dangerous YT vids 😄

I can get these games, but I just have no room on my computer. I need to buy another hard drive. My free space is maxxed out atm.

elite dangerous was quite fun with VR, but I stopped since they aren't going to support it going forward