Talk:Compass

History of the compass

Wouldn't a "history of the compass" section be great and fascinating? Anyone have that info. or a resource?

Lee R. Berger 14:45, 12 September 2007 (CDT)

Intro

Doesn't a human "take a bearing" on a compass, rather than the compass itself? Should it be that a compass "displays a bearing"? --Robert W King 16:12, 12 September 2007 (CDT)

hmmm - not sure - "is a bearing taken when there's no one there to read it?" - deep philosophy - we should ask Larry.

Lee R. Berger 00:03, 13 September 2007 (CDT)

Why does no one get my joke? "Does a tree that falls in the wood and no one hears...." Or am I just not funny? (P.S. my grandmother did in fact tell me never to ask a question I did not want to hear an answer to.....)

Lee R. Berger 14:00, 18 September 2007 (CDT)

As God said in the answering limerick: "I am always about in the Quad...." Hayford Peirce 14:11, 18 September 2007 (CDT)