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Originally Posted by Icelander
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I presume that they have an ex-military pilot trained in celestial navigation well enough to determine whether the island is on a planet orbiting the Sun and whether it is in contemporary time. Or I suppose that Shackleford ought to be able to do it — seafaring officers were still taught taught celestial navigation in his pre-satnav days, because LORAN-C equipment was expensive.