"Icebound" wrote in message
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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They navigated with a compass and a sextant, which for us GPS addicts
is almost as astonishing as flying 19 hours over-water in a 1919
(well: pseudo 1919) open cockpit biplane.

One of the by-products of the modern world is that it has reduced the
opportunities for the great masses to get their hands dirty, become
inquisitive, and learn things.

And people now can't do even basic arithmetic without an electronic
calculator :~(