Well, the other shoe has dropped, and the consequence is an addition to my signature block.

The US Navy is bringing back celestial navigation which they dropped from the curriculum for Academy and ROTC midshipmen years ago when GPS became the major method of navigating naval equipment.  It turns out there's a teeny problem with GPS systems and that is that enemy forces could conceivably interfere in the usual "computational" ways and completely mess up where the Navy's trying go.  There's no such problem with a sextant!

Just a bit of geographic trivia in today's news.

virginia
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Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California
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"There is always hope."
My fave:  http://www.washington.edu/cambots/camera1_l.jpg
There's no place like:  34N 8' 25.40", 117W 58' 5.36"
if you can't be at:  48N 7' 4.54" 122W 45' 50.95"
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