it's the difference between landing at Standstead--miles from London!  Where to stay?

and landing in a country where they know of you and welcome you; and if you arrived a hundred miles (or whatever measurement you choose)...away from where you were heading...there wasn't a problem.

So I think the problem must have been aiming at small islands.  They are the things you can miss.

If it was a problem; and if they didn't have alternative navigational methods as adjuncts to--or even alternatives to--the sky.

If you ask the following question:

"That's north, that's south, that's east, that's west" pointing, "Are we moving?  And if we are, which way are we moving?"

If they look confused, you say, "The sun rises in the east and," drawing an arc, "it sets in the west.  Which way are we moving?"

I asked a colleague today.

"Clockwise," she said.  "I suppose we're moving clockwise."

But, for an hour or so she was as fascinated as me by the basic movements of planet (spin), sun (axis), moon (moooovement), and stars (tick tock)....

What was the measure of efficiency before those huge ice-sheets melted?  Because humans have been around for long before they melted.  I'm beginning to think...hmmm...who wouldn't have been inundated?  Who would'nt have had their life revolutionised.  Maybe some people in India, in China, the himalayas must have changed; but maybe they changed, and the inhabitants could change with the himlayas, which are still growing...

Bhutan has an "Annual Happiness Index"...or somesuch.  Was it Laurent who pointed out the ridiculousness of GDP?  It's ridiculous.  An overthrow, and overhang, of Empire.  "It's over there, grab it!"

The sun is our source of life.  If we harness the sun's powers...we still live on an unstable ball of energy, with fruity effects--us!

So risk is ever present.  But now people have no sense of solar risk, or lunar risk, or stella risk.  All the risks are human-created.  War.  Famine.  Destitution.

DoDo!

You got me rambling!

Thanks for all your input.  Very much appreciated!

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.