Re: Navigation by the stars and the Perseids

Jack Linthicum <jacklinthicum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I recently had a long exchange on another newsgroup with someone who
believes that all sailors up to whenever, only sailed from one coastal
point to another in daylight. More recently, I have been informed that
the island of Crete was colonized from Anatolia about 7,000 years ago,
with cattle, sheep, pigs etc. Any boat or ship trip at that time would
have, out of necessity, been beyond daylight. The "boat" was probably
several logs tied together and paddled.

Why? The biggest channel between mainland Turkey and Crete, via
Rhodes and Karpathos is about 30 nautical miles IIRC. Even a bad team
of paddlers could do that in a good summers day at just over 2 knots
average speed.

There is an argument that Stonehenge was built to predict meteor
showers, those being the hardest things in the sky to anticipate and
explain. A real heavy burst could create a religion.

There are many arguments, none of which really stands up to any good
scrutiny. England is littered with henges - why need them all when
you already have one that does the astronomical task successfully? I
prefer Ruggles' contention that any cosmological alignment a henge may
have is probably pure chance.

Eugene L Griessel

Give a woman an inch - and she will try to park a car in it.
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