<![CDATA[How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar]]> @Daveinva: Good answer.

This is some seriously forward thinking. It will be quite a while (to say the least) before we really need to do any extra-solar navigating. We need to see some serious advances in technology before we can even think about going to Alpha Centauri, let alone cruise the galaxy.

Brock

]]> <![CDATA[How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar]]> So this means the Jupiter II didn't have to be lost! Oh wait, their telescope got busted. Lost again. And when you think about it, it makes so much sense. Of course this is no help to a humans without complex instruments

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar]]> @CargoCult: Hearing that, I suddenly wonder if that was such a idea. Unless it too crashes into the USS Shitship.

@DocGratis: I find your logic impeccable and flawless.

Git Em SteveDave has a new Lego set

]]> <![CDATA[How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar]]> "do these guys ever think about anything other than war?"

No, thank goodness. It's their job to think about war, so other folks can buy lattes and read sci-fi.

Daveinva

]]> <![CDATA[How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar]]> Cool - we're back to sextants.

Thrubeingcool

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The Pioneer plaque has a map to Earth, with distances to and periods of pulsars noted...

CargoCult

]]> <![CDATA[How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar]]> That's a cool illustration, Michael.

Grey_Area

]]> <![CDATA[How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar]]> Pulsars for navigation? Well duh, they seem like ready-made lighthouses.
.@sir_eccles: As to von Daniken [yeesh] he came up with a pantload of dopey ideas after skimming over a few facts and ignoring what real researchers could say on a subject.
Kinda like me.



Grey_Area

]]> <![CDATA[How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar]]> I just look for the Astronomicon that is fueled by the psychic energies of the Emperor of Man. What other good would sacrificing 1000 psykers a day do?

Log1c

]]> <![CDATA[How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar]]> @Garrison Dean, King Awesome: maybe more effective... but better?

nothing is better that sweaty lust painting...

DocGratis

]]> <![CDATA[How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar]]> Somebody want to let Starbuck and the crew of the USS Shitship know? This may work better than sweaty lust painting.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

]]> <![CDATA[How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar]]> Wasn't it someone like Erich von Daniken who original postulated that pulsars were actually created by aliens as a form of navigation?

sir_eccles

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