Let the Record show that Gray Guest on or
about Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:05:53 +0000 (UTC) did write, type or
otherwise cause to appear in talk.politics.guns the following:

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.

Hand cranked calculators. Dr Feynman wrote about them at the Los
Alamos labs - having a room full of people on calculators, grinding
out the numbers. "Programming" the work flow was one of those marvels
of "modern science".
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pyotr filipivich
"If Eric Holder gets indicted in Operation Fast & Furious,
should he get a civilian trial?" The Iowahawk