Entries tagged with interstellar travel

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A Self-Reminder About Human-Crewed Space Exploration

Making a note of these links about the language around space exploration that we have right now, as well as about the language we need from now on.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/09/manifest-destiny-trump-space-exploration/612439/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/11/we-need-to-change-way-we-talk-about-space-exploration-mars/

And this is just for Anglophone humans. What about the other languages we humans are speaking, or will speak?

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TREK: Calypso - An Astronomical Aside

Alcor is real. And another Trekverse species lives near there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizar_and_Alcor

http://galaxymap.org/dr2/index.html?search=Alcor&tileset=SGD&distanceEstimator=bj

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=g%20UMa

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Mizar_II

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Mizarian

And for the record: Fifteen minutes. Three actors. Only the standing sets, aside from the escape pod mockup.

Well done.

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Mapping Our Galaxy: Some More Progress

On the progress of nailing down where the exoplanets are, from 2012 and 2014, thanks to the University of Puerto Rico:

2012 - http://phl.upr.edu/library/notes/astellarsystemmapforexoplanets

2014 - http://phl.upr.edu/library/notes/themap

From Kevin Jardine's Galaxy Map Blog:

http://galaxymap.org/drupal/node/248

If you're writing for the Green Lantern books, the Legion of Super-Heroes, Star Trek, the Orville, Marvel's various space titles, the "Honorverse", or any other space-based project...I'd call these links recommended reading.

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TREK-Discovery: Pahvo System, Castor Sector

Cobbling this together from stuff written up on Facebook earlier...

Pahvo's near Castor. Seriously, check that map on co-writer Erika Lippert's Twitter account!

Doing a little more digging via Jed Whitten's StarMap website, I'm wondering about Gliese 233 A alias OU Geminorum AKA HD 45088.

For additional data: see stellar-database.com and SIMBAD.

According to Celestia, it's about 17.5 lightyears away from Castor, yet according to whitten.org, it's still in the same sector.

(Does anyone have an icon better suited to Trek trivia postings that they're willing to share?)

Update - 25 Nov 2017: Oh, and check the starmap window "behind" Adm. Terral's video-subspace window in Lorca's ready room on this page of DSC screencaps. You'll see "Risa(Epsilon Ceti)" near the top, and further "down", there's the coreward "tip" of the Briar Patch...

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The Institute for Interstellar Studies

Thanks to

centauri_dreams for the info that this is a real thing now.

Worth taking a look at, yes?

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Starmap: A Bit of Good News

For those of you who like a little interstellar cartography with your space opera and superheroics:

Jed Whitten's Starmap site is back online.

Go. Enjoy. Learn. Preferably both of the last two at the same time.

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Writer's Block: To Infinity and Beyond!

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I'd settle for getting outside the Terra-Luna system for starters, and I'd like to see interstellar flight nailed down before I finally die. We wouldn't even have to get to the whole Orion Arm, much less the whole Galaxy. Eta Cassiopeiae, Zeta Tucanae, some of those stars with only catalogue numbers for names? Those would be fine.

Anything we actually discover as a consequence would be icing on top of the cake.