Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for May 01, 2013

Too late for you, Columbus.

That would be a bad move. If you give him the directions to India, he will never find the new world!

So that’s why he bumped into that REALLY BIG island called the Americas…

We wish you a merry isthmus, we wish you a merry isthmus…..

did you notice what Brewster did there? he actually did something intelligent!

If Columbus hadn’t found the New World, his descendants would be making their delicious Columbus® Italian deli meats in India…and we’d be eating our coppa on na’an.

Columbus supposedly kept two logs — one in which he kept track of the actual distance, and one in which he fudged it so that the crew wouldn’t realize how far out they were. And the false log turned out to be closer to the truth...So, you tell me how good a mariner Columbus was. He was wrong about the distance to India, but if something hadn’t been in the way, the crew wouldn’t have survived the trip.

Brewster’s refering to his Galactic Positioning System.

I didn’t think guys were able to take directions.

Another historical-figure-disappearance result is that Roth’s book is now called, “Goodbye, Brewster”

I think what Columbus needed more was a moral compass.

Brewster is doing the smart thing: He’s trying to prevent any historical figures from using devices (that are to them)haven’t been invented yet.

Sorry, but it’s a Magellan.

Wouldn’t do him any good back in 1492. No GPW satellites. The blinky lights and disembodied voice would be most impressive, though, until the battery ran down.

@exoticdoc2The ‘G’ stands for Galactic.

And an extremely brave one. Only the guys with the get-out-of-jail-free-card-if-you-go were willing to sail without landmarks over totally open waters.

BREW nuts to call a GPS trusty. There are no fixed points. Everything is in motion. If that thing loses track of 3 known moving objects over curves in space…This isn’t a rXtXd equation..Hitting the moons trajectory from the earth’s orbit, inside a gravity slingshot, over three days was done constantly sighting Arcturus. How did they ever do it with slide rule and primitive computer?

Space flight direct result of Columbus. The instruments had to improve, the maps had to improve, the ships had to improve, the sailors had to relearn everything..Franklin his self measured temperature to id the Humboldt current. Bowditch got the navigation out of the error ridden books and up into the heavens…anyway one step after another to get to the new world pushed things past rockets and semiconductors.

Graham Kerr – now there was a great marinater

Columbus sailed west to introduce Europe to the Wonders of India, and instead Europe discovered the Wonders of syphilis.

Good call, Brewster, Moese needs it more. 40 years? Common it is only a few miles….

Yeah, maps that were supposedly used by Marco Polo. He was going the wrong way too. :-)