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The professional who knew where you were before satellites snitched on everyone.
means A person who plans and directs the course of a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle, especially using maps, instruments, and the stars.
from From Latin navigare, 'to sail,' itself a marriage of navis 'ship' and agere 'to drive' — so a navigator is literally a ship-driver. The same navis sails through 'navy,' 'naval,' and even 'nave,' the long ship-shaped body of a church. English picked up 'navigator' in the late 16th century, the great age of charts and dead reckoning, when knowing your position was a matter of survival rather than a phone notification.
- old salary
- Skilled navigators earned more than ship captains historically
- sky math
- Used sextant and stars to fix position at sea
- dead reckoning
- Guessed position from speed, time, and heading alone
- web ghost
- Netscape Navigator basically invented the modern browser
- polynesian
- Crossed the Pacific using wave patterns and birds
christopher columbus — italian explorer who sailed for spain in 1492, reaching the caribbean
zheng he — chinese admiral who led seven major voyages across the indian ocean from 1405-1433
vasco da gama — portuguese explorer who reached india by sea in 1498, rounding cape of good hope
ernest shackleton — irish-british explorer who led antarctic expeditions, surviving the endurance shipwreck in 1914