Universal Positioning System
After watching all this Doctor Who and thinking about travel through space and time and all of that, it's got me thinking about the practicality of such things. I mean, think about it. Everything in the universe is spinning and moving and expanding and all of that, and that within larger spinning objects like galaxies are smaller spinning things like solar systems. It's all quite a bit of a mess.
One of the things that you don't see really in Doctor Who is how they track where they're going, the TARDIS just kind of takes them there. But in other shows like Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica they have extremely complex maps and star charts and things like that.
How? How can you generate maps for things that are constantly shifting and spinning and not run into things like a moon or a comet or a planetary orbit at the wrong time?
This idea has probably been proposed and discussed and maybe even created somewhere, but I just thought of it myself, a Universal Positioning System. Like the Global Positioning System it can pinpoint your distance from a specific (universal center?) source and its position in a three dimensional grid, with proper reconfiguration of the stars and planets associated with the new location based on their known cycles of movement.
That would be pretty freaking cool.
Not to mention that it would take geocaching to a totally new level.
One of the things that you don't see really in Doctor Who is how they track where they're going, the TARDIS just kind of takes them there. But in other shows like Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica they have extremely complex maps and star charts and things like that.
How? How can you generate maps for things that are constantly shifting and spinning and not run into things like a moon or a comet or a planetary orbit at the wrong time?
This idea has probably been proposed and discussed and maybe even created somewhere, but I just thought of it myself, a Universal Positioning System. Like the Global Positioning System it can pinpoint your distance from a specific (universal center?) source and its position in a three dimensional grid, with proper reconfiguration of the stars and planets associated with the new location based on their known cycles of movement.
That would be pretty freaking cool.
Not to mention that it would take geocaching to a totally new level.