Swampboy posted:About 35 years ago I had a job on a ship that placed the buoys that mark ship channels. This was before GPS and before satellite navigation. The most accurate means of positioning available to us was observing horizontal sextant angles from known charted objects on shore like smoke stacks and radio antennas and occasionally a lighthouse.
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From time to time, the objects we wanted to use for our positioning would be obscured by haze or background lights, and we'd have to find other suitable objects ashore to use as our reference points.
Once in a while, if there was nothing suitable available we'd joke around and say things like, "I've got 35 degrees, 14. 2 minutes from the large fluffy cloud to the seagull on the end of the refinery pier."
It was funny because we all knew that a precise measurement to an imprecise object was meaningless.
Not sure everyone on this board would get that joke.
Swamp - This was funny...especially the part about now we have GPS and can find spots the size of a dot anywhere on the planet....except in the Strike Zone...or at least so it seems. The Burmuda Triangle of Sports!