However this slight hiccup in the social life of the base did not prevent all and sundry from drinking the bar dry - an emergency dash was made to the mainland for urgent medicinal supplies, ie. Last issue explored the methods of navigation employed by the animals. Now the early methods of man are under scrutiny. We navigate every day, to work, home, a shop, etc. We remember a network of landmarks, providing us with a human sense of direction.
Curiosity provokes exploration and new references extend the landmarks.
We create a mind map, and someone started drawing these maps on paper to share and record the information. This allows us to pick any direction if we know the time, with some accuracy. Unfortunately the sun s direction at dawn and dusk changes with the seasons, more northerly in the summer, and southerly in the winter, so we need to know the time of year as well. The sun s movement has been studied, well considered, for five thousands of years. At this time the Chinese and Egyptians counted a 365 and 365 and a quarter days per year respectively.