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a great ship on the high seas, when the sextant is telling you you're going the wrong way but you keep going regardless until you slam into a sandbank and sink
It's 2023, there's no such thing as a sextant on board. It has GPS, satellite-aided early warning devices, 14-day weather forecasts, echo sounding systems and IR and UV cameras seeing through fog, and they STILL plug their ears and close their eyes and keep going through the incessant beeping and droning and wailing and blaring and flashing of a thousand red alerts
Remember that US destroyer which had all this shit, military grade, and still managed to ram civilian ship in Malacca Strait and kill some of its own crew in the process?
Tell me more, please
USS John McCain i kid you not
Seems strangely appropriate
"boldly going forward cos we cant find reverse"