The old name used by some was definitely not politically correct.Since much of Iowa has mixed glacial debris, I would expect some variation in the exa...

I was bothered by the 14.0 dimension, which is inconsistent with the other values if taken as 14.000, but I calculate sqrt(26.5^2-1^2)-12.5 = 13.981 s...

They started out checking for things on the coastal charts that had changed. They got into finding NGS marks from there, and the river squadrons foll...

Bureaucrats overstepping their charter. If it doesn't create an ambiguity as to what property is being evaluated, they should have no business questi...

I've seen some very good and some unbelievable reports by the Power Squadron. The other problem was that there appeared to be no encouragement to add...

Theatrical people solved that centuries ago: House Left is Stage Right and vice versa. You don't just say left or right, you attach the other word.

Truest North"Auto" sound like they are delegating it to the UNKNOWN and UNDESCRIBED software somebody put in a GPS unit.But for their purposes, I thin...

I edited the Wikipedia True North page to distinguish astronomical vs geodetic north, which they had apparently considered identical.Let me know if yo...

Is there any reason this would not be geodetic north? Doesn't the FCC record location by lat-lon, thus making geodetic an appropriate interpretation?...

If the target and prism are tilted up (say) to look directly at the gun that is higher, then the increased distance of the prism relative to the targe...

I'd think tops of rods 1 ft down would be reasonably safe from farming operations.

Wish I'd known that when we visited relatives there. The Lilly Library was showing an exhibit of medieval manuscripts at that time, which was interes...

If you sweat a lot, you lose sodium and (I think) potassium. Taking an excess of salts probably has the effect you describe, but failing to replenish...

The GPS manufacturers designed according to the regulatory environment as it existed. The frequency band that LS wants to use was designated for sate...

I've seen no evidence that the US military is disinterested in GPS or have a replacement for it.Their secure access modes (look up SAASM and M-code) h...

>dipped further into "their" spectrum That's a misleading way to word it.The GPS frequencies are published. There's a chart in this link from a re...