Re: Pulsar Nav accuracy

Indy schrieb:
> True. But it should not be difficult at all to determine 
> this quite precisely. We already know to 1/10 ly or better the 
> distances to nearby stars. Once we actually *travel* to them, 
> all we have to do is turn a sensitive receiver back toward 
> Earth and pick up signals. From this we can 
> determine *extremely* well the distance (you know when a 
> given signal was transmitted - such as, oh, a Weather Channel show 
> which carries the timestamp in the program - and with calibrated time 
 
> instruments you can determine to with lightseconds or tighter 
accuracy how  
> long it took the signal to reach your location, and from that, derive 
the  
> distance to some small number).

You have all this worked out have you ?
:-)

> > I certainly see an use for the GZG Clarke class survey 
> > ships. 
> 
> More than K'V target practice, that is.  ;-)

Like the days when the Royal Navy mapped the seas.

Might make for a scenario: UN survey ship in uncharted space with a 
light escort boldly going where no man hos gone before...OOPS, wrong 
show. 

Greetings