"SaPeIsMa" wrote in
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"Gray Guest" wrote in message
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Thomas Heger wrote in news:9g1pg5FcguU1
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Well, I would agree to 'just math and knowing where things are'.

But that 'just math' is quite challenging, if you have only a
handcranked 'computer' with a few k Ram.

And knowing where everything is is difficult, too. Today they have
GPS, that would help a lot - if installed at the moon.

But without radar and satellite navigation things are VERY di

Are you a complete and utter moron?

How do you think people navigated across open oceans or seas before all
that crap was invented?

How do you think navigators, navigated?

You will deny every aspect of reality to feed your delusions.


I'll also point out that in the 60s there were no handheld calculators
that did various algebraic and trigonometrical functions.
You had slide rules for 3 meaningful digits and log tables for more
meaningful digits.
And computers were mainframes that had very few real-time applications
where you could dynamically change the data set on the fly, and
immediately recalculate. Not to mention that their processing speed was
slower than a cheap $5 calculator you pick up at Walgreens or Wal-Mart.





How does he think ballistic calculations were done back then? American
warships were getting first shot hits on a moving target form a moving gun
platform in WWII! The moment guns could fire other than direct fire
ballistics became an issue and ballistic tables were generated - by hand.

Lordy, what has the world come to?

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