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| − | Taking wrong directions would obviously have dire consequences when flying supersonic in a combat jet, therefore the Royal Air Force teaches their pilots the “real thing”. From the [https://books.google.com/books?id=SwqhI5Txi70C&lpg=PA543&ots=jV1Un13cR5&pg=PA543#v=onepage&q&f=false Aug 16, 1979 issue of New Scientist] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20190716212737/https://books.google.com/books?id=SwqhI5Txi70C&lpg=PA543&ots=jV1Un13cR5&pg=PA543#v=onepage&q&f=false Archive]) we read on p.543:
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| − | {{cite| Andrew Hill ("Darwin rules—OK?, 12 July p. 127) says "...even in the ''Spectator'', we rarely find serious assertions that the Sun goes around the Earth".
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| − | One can of course believe anything one likes as long as the consequences of that belief are trivial, but when survival depends on belief, then it matters that beliefs correspond to manifest reality. We therefore teach navigators that the stars are fixed to the celestial sphere, which is centered on a fixed earth and around which it rotates in accordance with laws clearly deducible from common sense observation. The Sun and the moon move across the inner surface of this sphere and hence perforce go around the earth. This means, that students of navigation must unlearn a lot of the confused dogma they learned in school. Most of them find this remarkably easy, because Dogma is as it may be, but the real world is as we perceive it to be.
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| − | If Andrew Hill will look in the ''Journal of Navigation'' he will find that the Earth-centred Universe is alive and well, whatever his readings of the ''Spectator'' may suggest.}}
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| − | —Darcy Pettyhoff, Royal Air Force College
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