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Celestial Navigation (instruction video)

NathanielsCAD · 2 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months

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Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2021–2025).

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There are too few matching tutorial videos tagged Ships, submarines & maritime for a stable peer comparison. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders across 3 recommendation months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.

50% of its 6 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2021–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 45 minutes 54 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2016-03-11.

Channel / speaker
NathanielsCAD
Verified runtime
45m 54s
YouTube upload date
2016-03-11
Hacker News mention years
2021–2025

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VideoHN recommendersRecommendation monthsPositive label shareShared recommendersRuntimeUpload date
Celestial Navigation (instruction video)Current video2350%—45m 54s2016-03-11

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6 mentions

Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.

strong rec2025-09Original HN comment ↗

The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “The World War Two bomber that cost more than the atomic bomb”. Its short rationale: Really good military training film on celestial navigation.

reference2025-01Original HN comment ↗

The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Ships must practice celestial navigation”. Its short rationale: US military video on the theory of celestial navigation.

reference2025-01Original HN comment ↗

The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Ships must practice celestial navigation”. Its short rationale: Old USAF video on the theory of celestial navigation.