So let's say you've got this pulp science Space setting where rockets go "Whoooosh!" but "Computer" is a job for math-savvy human being and not a machine. Besides vintage science fiction the IW line of Lucifer-5 would qualify.
So how do you navigate and how long does it take and how difficult is it with nothing but mechanical calculating machines?
I have some idea of "How?" ( three dimensional triangulation based on stellar observations as just one possibility) but I'd be totally guessing about how difficult and how long the calculations took.
I can vaguely remember mechanical adding machines from when I was small but that's not much help. They only did simple math for one thing.
Ideas about e complexi9ty of the navigational math would be at least as much help as details about mechanical calculators.
so, anybody know anything?
So how do you navigate and how long does it take and how difficult is it with nothing but mechanical calculating machines?
I have some idea of "How?" ( three dimensional triangulation based on stellar observations as just one possibility) but I'd be totally guessing about how difficult and how long the calculations took.
I can vaguely remember mechanical adding machines from when I was small but that's not much help. They only did simple math for one thing.
Ideas about e complexi9ty of the navigational math would be at least as much help as details about mechanical calculators.
so, anybody know anything?
Computer-less Space Navigation
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