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navigate by stars and moon and position of the sun vs chronometers vs gps?
by rficcaglia 8y ago
navigate by stars and moon and position of the sun vs chronometers vs gps?
- dahfizz 8y agoYes, the practical skill of navigating by stars is not practiced by most people because we have better navigation methods. But the knowledge of how to navigate by stars was not erased by the invention of the gps. That's still part of humanity's body of knowledge.
- jdbernard 8y agoMaybe, but if you're talking about recorded knowledge I'd argue we're still losing a bulk of it. Recorded knowledge fails to capture all the layers of depth that lived experience contains. Hopefully the recorded knowledge is enough to jump-start a new learner if no masters remain, but even that is not guaranteed.