On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:14:32 -0400, Stubby
wrote:
Any Earth-based coordinate system is bound to be out of date soon.
We'll be navigating to the moon and other planets and the concept of
"North" won't be relevant. So, we need to figure how navigation will
work in the Solar system and embed Earth navigation in that system. My
guess is that a system similar to GPS but with stations on the other
planets will work until we venture out of our Solar system.

I seem to remember some talk awhile back about each star having it's
own electomagnetic signature and the attempt to base a navigational
system upon this... Awh, 'ell, this is probably classified, so just
forget that I said anything... grin

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