Timeline for Logistics of civilization with point-to-point superluminal travel calculating a pseudo-current map of the galaxy's navigational hazards
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| Oct 17, 2016 at 13:06 | comment | added | Anonymous | Thank you. I have adjusted my question to be less... whatever it was? | |
| Oct 15, 2016 at 6:26 | comment | added | JDługosz | I think the question is not stating what Anonymous is really wanting to ask, as he seems to be answering his own question in these comments. | |
| Oct 15, 2016 at 3:35 | comment | added | Anonymous | @MichaelS: in this scenario the ships don't have the luxury to survey every system. They need to travel hundreds of light years into a system they never visited before and make sure they don't arrive inside a planet or something. They need to do this many times in quick succession. | |
| Oct 15, 2016 at 2:33 | comment | added | MichaelS | @Anonymous: How is manual exploration too slow? As long as the maps are made within a short range of the jump point (say, hundreds to thousands of light years), it should be easy to mathematically calculate the current and future positions of everything in the night sky. And if there are people in that part of the galaxy to need the maps, then at least some of them can keep the maps up-to-date. You wouldn't want to jump into a system that wasn't normally mapped without checking it out first, but each ship could do that on its own. | |
| Oct 15, 2016 at 2:15 | comment | added | Anonymous | Manual exploration is far too slow. I mean take a snapshot of the night sky and calculate the current position of every single object in the galaxy that could present a navigational hazard using computers without ever visiting the space in question. | |
| Oct 15, 2016 at 1:50 | history | answered | JDługosz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |