Dragaera

Orb to navigate

Thu Aug 28 13:56:24 PDT 2003

> From: Philip Hart [mailto:philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU] 

> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Iain E. Davis wrote:
> >
> > How do orca (from that universe) navigate?  For that matter, how do 
> > orca from our universe navigate?
> 
> Triangulation, of course.  A shark has an extremely acute 
> sense of smell and can calculate the distance to landmarks 
> (e.g., the site where something died) and common ocean 
> currents or where rivers run into the sea.  Recently there 
> are of course ocean-floor cables to follow but those haven't 
> made it to Dragaera yet.

Very cool.  I learned something today!  The day is not a total loss. ;)

I wonder if Orca have that sense of smell, or some other sense useful for
navigation.