Dead Reckoning

A reference to an historical navigation method.  Starting from a place of certainty by calculating a previously determined position and then advancing that position with the use of instruments and analysis. The process of dead reckoning allows the navigator to know where they are in a featureless ocean.  However, sometimes ships are knocked off course by un-foreseen natural events and are lost.

Richard Paton Artist

Richard Paton Artist

steel balloon held mid air by a magnetic field – think about the physics of that

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Richard Paton Artist
soft cushioning breaks the fall after the magnetic field breaks a suspended bond