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In article , Gds wrote:
For your consideration: http://galacticdrifter.0nyx.com/ Nice picture of a barred spiral, but apart from that, what's the point you're trying to make? Are you proposing a probe to be launched to travel around the galaxy in the opposite direction to the solar system, so as to complete a survey of the galaxy in half the time that it could otherwise be done? That would be around 100 million years. But if a million years from now Earth started to launch "generation ship" type exploration efforts that travelled at an average of 0.01c (3000 km/s) then in a further 100,000/0.01= 10 million years the generation ships would be on the far side of the galaxy and the "Galactic Drifter" probe would be 11/100th of the way around the perimeter. [Note to moderator : cross posted to one of the SF groups, since it's much more in that inclination.] -- Aidan Karley, FGS Aberdeen, Scotland Written at Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:02 +0100, but posted later. |
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