Hatchlings follow lights to streets and hotels instead of using the moon and stars to navigate back into the ocean as nature intended.
Even with the advent of modern compasses and Global Positioning System devices, many cultures--including those in Fiji, Tunisia, and East Africa, which Holbrook has observed directly--still choose traditional navigation methods, using the moon, stars, and planets to determine their place in the world and to get to where they're going.
Tiny Marina di Pisciotta is famous for keeping centuries-old fishing techniques alive, using the moon and the stars to determine where the anchovies will surface.
Future manned missions to the moon will require the ability to build structures using the moon's natural resources.
The practice of using the moon and equinox as a dating system actually has ties to pagan practices, though.
"At first we were shocked and worried that our previous experiments using the moon were wrong.
So Hubble will watch the June 5-6 Venus transit by using the moon as a mirror.
Of course, I noticed the date because I wanted to use the moon's energy to boost my energy and creativity.
The observatory will use the moon's gravity to propel it toward its final destination, a point one million miles from Earth, on the side of the Earth opposite the sun.
