Timeline for How can I know where to point my spaceship?
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| Aug 6, 2018 at 14:18 | history | edited | Massimo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 5, 2018 at 16:50 | answer | added | ivanivan | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 4, 2018 at 18:03 | comment | added | Mazura | @GrandmasterB - The same thing we do every night: take over world building space questions with math. | |
| Aug 4, 2018 at 12:50 | answer | added | NeutronStar | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 4, 2018 at 6:10 | comment | added | Jim Garrison | @PaulSinclair I am always disappointed by questions that start “Assume we have FTL...”. If you have FTL you have much bigger problems in your universe than where something is, and no amount of hand waving will make it simple unless you want to completely ignore Relativity. At which point I would stop reading. | |
| Aug 4, 2018 at 2:07 | answer | added | phyrfox | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 4, 2018 at 1:44 | comment | added | Paul Sinclair | You have a very common misconception here. When you ask where the stars are "now", you are assuming a common definition of "now" between here and the stars. But it is the lack of that very concept of simultaneousness between separated events that is the basis of relativity. Without knowing how your FTL drive works, there is no way to determine when in the worldline of its destination that it will deliver its passengers. | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 23:16 | comment | added | Dragonel | You look for the FTL traces left by alien races and follow their "trail" ..... | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 23:13 | answer | added | jorfus | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 20:24 | comment | added | Tracy Cramer | The actual speed is important. Star systems in our galaxy are 'relatively' close. Jumping to another galaxy significantly changes the time frames involved (of their starlight reaching us and our time to get there.) | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 20:12 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 9 | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 18:44 | answer | added | Tyler S. Loeper | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 18:39 | answer | added | hszmv | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 18:23 | comment | added | GrandmasterB | Right now it takes years to hit the outer planets, yet we still manage to hit them with probes. How? With math. | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 18:08 | answer | added | boxcartenant | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 18:05 | comment | added | JBH | You have FTL travel. Do you have FTL communications? This is trivial with FTL-enabled GPS satellites doing most of the navigational anchoring work. | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 18:01 | answer | added | StephenG - Help Ukraine | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 17:54 | answer | added | Totillity | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 17:50 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 29 | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 17:19 | comment | added | Gryphon | Welcome to Worldbuilding, Massimo! If you have a moment, please take the tour and visit the help center to learn more about the site. You may also find Worldbuilding Meta and The Sandbox (both of which require 5 rep to post on) useful. Here is a meta post on the culture and style of Worldbuilding.SE, just to help you understand our scope and methods, and how we do things here. Have fun! | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 17:17 | answer | added | Joe Bloggs | timeline score: 14 | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 17:11 | comment | added | Mike Scott | We can generally know from the light from a star that it won’t be going nova for the next few centuries. Novas are not random, and only happen at certain stages of a star’s life-cycle. | |
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