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Re: Apollo spacecraft sextant
From: Ken James
Date: 2004 May 3, 17:00 -0500
From: Ken James
Date: 2004 May 3, 17:00 -0500
The map shows their approximate distances
from Earth. This would be good enough to find the rough position of the Earth
for some millions of years into the future.
But maybe there is a problem with that method. If
you travel fast enough, you get maybe hundreds or even thousands of light
years away, which is like going forward in time in the direction of
travel...will the pulser map still be accurate, and will the pulsers now in your
light-past still be visible?-Ken
