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Navy Sequence:
"… I look in various directions because I’m interested in big patterns is one reason why my intuition solves some big patterns… And my Navy experience brought me into celestial navigation. Goodness gracious! My navy experience brought me into…logistics, ballistics, controlling the trajectory of missiles. This brought me into the realization of variables where I realized I had never heard anybody say this, they didn’t say this in the Naval Academy, the flight-- shooting from a fixed position to another fixed position is not in the same category as flying from a moving ship on a heaving sea against another moving ship on a heaving sea. And not on a planar base either but on a spherical base. It turns out that all the variables in the Universe in a spherical planet are in the latter base and not a fixed one. I find that really so much of man’s thinking is on the fixed-position-to-fixed-position.
“So I then got into the concept of what I call the Theory of the Navy, the theory of ships, of designing the ship itself, what its particular function was, then designing the blast furnace to make the steel… all of this just to get that platform out there and taking you 25 years before you get all the things done… and then the forward supply bases;”
