11-02-2015, 06:36 PM
We need a database of absolutely precise measurements for the positional location, in galactic coordinates, of all bright pulsars. You can use pulsars to precisely navigate within the galaxy, no different than the way a GPS uses satellites, but you have to know their exact relative positions.
We also need galactic coordinates (not right ascension and declination) and spectral signatures of stars hosting earthlike planets, and the parameters of the candidate planets themselves. This is TMTs job. A functional warp drive is not that far from being invented and people are going to be blind sided by this achievement. A manned starship to an exo-planet system within the lifetimes of people now living is a high probability if we do not destroy ourselves. No one will live to see its return centuries later, but that is how relativistic travel is. At this point we must acquire and tabulate sufficient precise data for interstellar navigation to earth-like exoplanets. For the northern hemisphere the only option is TMT. This is big for the human species, it is not some back-water political issue.
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You can't fix Samsara.
We also need galactic coordinates (not right ascension and declination) and spectral signatures of stars hosting earthlike planets, and the parameters of the candidate planets themselves. This is TMTs job. A functional warp drive is not that far from being invented and people are going to be blind sided by this achievement. A manned starship to an exo-planet system within the lifetimes of people now living is a high probability if we do not destroy ourselves. No one will live to see its return centuries later, but that is how relativistic travel is. At this point we must acquire and tabulate sufficient precise data for interstellar navigation to earth-like exoplanets. For the northern hemisphere the only option is TMT. This is big for the human species, it is not some back-water political issue.
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You can't fix Samsara.
