獅子耳

スクスト＋ポプスト用アカウントです。隊長歴 2015/7/4〜2025/9/29。 #オブリ図鑑 完結しました。 #スクストマイアレ部 活動中。推し：茜さん／雨森このえ

[獅子耳 @CaptainCat_SGS]

コレが札幌飛行場だ！😶
晴れた日にまた来よう…

[獅子耳 @CaptainCat_SGS]

#スクコラ

[獅子耳 @CaptainCat_SGS]

相変わらず凄い店。
読書に特化してるなあ🙄

[獅子耳 @CaptainCat_SGS]

ゴーゴーカレーの辛口って辛いんだ…凄え辛いんだ…🥵

[獅子耳 @CaptainCat_SGS]

凄い商標地雷があるな…

[元所長 @moto_shotyou]

そうなんだ

[りうじぇん @ta_ri_2]

灰島 華賀利×乗り物に乗る×風景メイン
🚲
#skst_1h_drawing +30min

[りうじぇん @ta_ri_2]

桃川 紗々×横顔
👓
#skst_1h_drawing

[りうじぇん @ta_ri_2]

緋ノ宮 二穂×水に濡れる×驚き顔
#skst_1h_drawing +10min

[りうじぇん @ta_ri_2]

栗本 遥×楽器🥁
#skst_1h_drawing

[獅子耳 @CaptainCat_SGS]

ついーか

[獅子耳 @CaptainCat_SGS]

#スクコラ
Xもブルスカみたいな画像スライド式になったのか。

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

For over a thousand years, historians thought the Viking "sunstone" was nothing more than a myth, until the ocean gave up its secret...

The Norse sagas repeatedly referenced a mysterious object called a "sólarsteinn" or sunstone, a navigational tool so powerful that Viking sailors could locate the exact position of the sun even on the most overcast and cloudy days. For centuries, scholars debated whether this was real technology or simply folklore embellished over generations of retelling. Most assumed it was legend. They were wrong.

In 2013, marine archaeologists excavating a British warship that sank near the Channel Islands in 1592 made a stunning discovery buried among the wreckage. Alongside navigational instruments including a pair of dividers and a slate, they found a rectangular chunk of translucent crystal. Testing confirmed it was Iceland spar, a remarkably pure form of calcite with extraordinary optical properties. The fact that it was found stored alongside other precision navigation tools was not a coincidence.

Iceland spar possesses a property called birefringence, meaning it splits a single beam of light entering the crystal into two separate beams. When you hold the crystal up toward the sky and slowly rotate it, the two beams will vary in brightness independently until, at one specific angle of rotation, they become perfectly equal in intensity. That precise angle points directly toward the sun, regardless of whether the sun is visible to the naked eye. Cloud cover, fog, and even twilight conditions cannot defeat it.

Researchers from the University of Rennes in France conducted extensive testing and published their findings in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A. Their experiments demonstrated that Iceland spar could locate the sun's position with an accuracy of within one degree, even under completely overcast skies. For Viking navigators crossing the North Atlantic toward Iceland, Greenland, and eventually North America, this accuracy would have meant the difference between a successful voyage and sailing hopelessly off course into open ocean.

The Viking Age spanned roughly 793 to 1066 AD, and during this period Norse sailors were completing oceanic crossings that would not be replicated by other European cultures for another 400 years. Historians had long puzzled over how they achieved such consistent navigational precision without magnetic compasses, which did not reach Europe until the 12th century. The sunstone appears to be a significant part of that answer.

What makes the Channel Islands find especially compelling is that the 1592 shipwreck is far outside the traditional Viking era, suggesting that knowledge of this navigational technique survived and was still being used by European sailors centuries after the Viking Age officially ended. The crystal was not a relic or a curiosity on that ship. It was working equipment.

The sagas specifically describe King Olaf consulting a sunstone on a cloudy day to verify the position of the sun, with a separate observation then confirming the stone's accuracy. For generations this was dismissed as poetic invention. Science has now confirmed that every element of that description is physically possible and practically achievable with a simple piece of Icelandic calcite.

The Vikings were not lucky explorers stumbling across new lands by accident. They were sophisticated navigators armed with technology so elegant and effective that it required no moving parts, no maintenance, and no power source beyond the sky itself.

📷 : the original calcite crystal alongside Elizabethan navigation dividers next to a cannon

Alderney Museum

#archaeohistories

[獅子耳 @CaptainCat_SGS]

#スクコラ
また緑が切れたので一週間くらい休んで草を貯めます

[りうじぇん @ta_ri_2]

夜木沼 伊緒（と菜森）でミルモパロ🧚‍♀️
#skst_1h_drawing +20min

[獅子耳 @CaptainCat_SGS]

#スクコラ

[獅子耳 @CaptainCat_SGS]

やっと人里。デミタスが美味いぜ🥹

[獅子耳 @CaptainCat_SGS]

雨の日こそ山で背景を撮る！✊
…と意気込んでいたんだが階段を登りきると普通に街並みが広がっていて。しかも木々に囲まれて閉じた界隈で、静かで、人もあんまり歩いてなくて、なんかゲームに出そうな所。
…桃仙郷？😐
まあ、地図を見て行けっていうか、いい経験ではあった…。

[獅子耳 @CaptainCat_SGS]

#スクコラ