Computational capacity and our future as a species
One of the most heroic voyages in sailing was made by Ernest Shackleton and his crew. his boat, harden, it was trapped by the ice of Antarctica, which collapsed it, leaving the sailors on top of the ice. Shackleton led his crew to uninhabited Elephant Island and he and five other sailors would make a 1600-mile journey for help. The journey lasted 16 days until reaching the whaling station on the island of South Georgia. The navigation was carried out by sextant and the bad weather conditions only allowed the Captain to make three measurements, but his precision in his calculations led him to Elephant Island. The history of seafaring is littered with stories with unequal outcomes, where miscalculation, such as the radius of the Earth, jeopardized the survival of its crew.
