Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Can You Find Your Way? (pictures I like)

A Micronesian navigational chart of section of the Pacific.

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  1. I'm guessing, but I'd figure the intersections are islands, and the curvy lines currents, and also if you put me in a canoe and said paddle to this other island across the ocean, I'm probably dead in an hour.

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    1. Briane: I was thinking the shells are the islands, but I've never looked it up to see.

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  2. What a beautiful piece of art that is form and function at it's best.
    I love it, beautiful.

    cheers, parsnip and thehamish

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  3. Impressive. I totally have no idea how any of it works (not that I know much about sea charts anyway) but it's really cool looking.

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  4. I'd be lying if I said I knew what any of that means. To me, it looks like the Snyders's pretzels I'm eating. That's how smart I am. However, it *is* cool to look at.

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    1. Elsie: Your pretzel comment made me lol.
      No, really, people looked.
      Okay, it was just my wife who looked, but, still...

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  5. Here's more info about these charts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands_stick_chart The Wikipedia article actually includes a picture of the chart we saw at the museum. But they had a few more of them on display. It was really neat!

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  6. I guess if that's a chart then I've got all kinds of charts all over my house--or at least I've got pile and conglomerations of stuff that one might construe as having some kind of meaning.

    Arlee Bird
    Tossing It Out

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    1. Lee: I don't think "meaning" is what that's called.

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