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Subject: [ISN] Seeing stars, again: Naval Academy reinstates celestial navigation
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2015-10-15 7:24:51
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http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/naval_academy/ph-ac-cn-celestial-navigation-1014-20151009-story.html
By Tim Prudente
capitalgazette.com
October 12, 2015
The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led
Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when
the Apollo 12 was disabled by lightning, the techniques of celestial
navigation.
A glimmer of the old lore has returned to the Naval Academy.
Officials reinstated brief lessons in celestial navigation this year,
nearly two decades after the full class was determined outdated and cut
from the curriculum.
That decision, in the late 1990s, made national news and caused a stir
among the old guard of navigators.
Maritime nostalgia, however, isn't behind the return.
Rather, it's the escalating threat of cyber attacks that has led the Navy
to dust off its tools to measure the angles of stars.
After all, you can't hack a sextant.
[...]
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