Dead Reckoning ???

OK I'[m going to a bright star25 LY away. I it alway in my space ship's
front window.Is that all the navigating I have to do for the next 35
years? Bert

G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:
OK I'[m going to a bright star25 LY away. I it alway in my space ship's
front window.Is that all the navigating I have to do for the next 35
years? Bert


Depending on which direction the star is moving, you will find that you
will have to keep correcting your heading as you go.

What you are seeing from Earth is where the star was 25 years ago. If
you can figure from its motion where it really is now, and then figure
where it will be when you arrive, then you can head in that direction
from the start, and save lots of time and fuel. Sort of like when
you're out gunning geese in the Florida everglades: you don't shoot at
where the goose is, but where you expect it to be when the shot gets to
him.

Double-A

Double-A since I always have the star in my front widow I think that is
all that's needed Bert

"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message
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OK I'[m going to a bright star25 LY away. I it alway in my space ship's
front window.Is that all the navigating I have to do for the next 35
years? Bert


Just keep it in the cross hairs, Beeert.
BTW, since you'll be traveling at 71% of SOL, I am going to take out a life
insurance policy on you, with me as the beneficiary. If you hit even one
molecule at that speed, the resulting flash of total destruction should be
seen lightyears away ...
Sure hope they fix the Hubble, for we all would love to see a picture of
Beeeert going up in smoke.

Hagar the horrible. I'll post when I'll be at the Huntington Beach
Neptune society,and you can watch be go up in smoke. Your putting to
many E's in Beert. My space ship is safe from molecular dust,for it has
a reflector shield made of "Glazier metal" Bert

The extra E is for BEERtbrain!

Saul Levy


On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:58:27 -0400, (G=EMC^2
Glazier) wrote:

Hagar the horrible. I'll post when I'll be at the Huntington Beach
Neptune society,and you can watch be go up in smoke. Your putting to
many E's in Beert. My space ship is safe from molecular dust,for it has
a reflector shield made of "Glazier metal" Bert

To All As I posted in the past my space ship's outer surface is its
engine. Its energy moves the ship to 73% of 'c',and also acts as a
shield. Its great engineering. Bert

G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:

To All As I posted in the past my space ship's outer surface is its
engine. Its energy moves the ship to 73% of 'c',and also acts as a
shield. Its great engineering. Bert

Do you keep it under a tarp out back next to the chicken coop, Beeert?

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