[time-nuts] Pulsars make a GPS for the cosmos
Sanjeev Gupta
ghane0 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 26 08:48:14 UTC 2013
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 3:59 PM, REEVES Paul <Paul.Reeves at uk.thalesgroup.com
> wrote:
> Some of them might be....... you could certainly speculate that any
> culture that has attained sufficient technology to make interstellar travel
> possible (and need navigation beacons) would probably have sufficient power
> to 'engineer' the occasional neutron star into the correct configuration.
Question: So Pulsars would be covered by the ITU-R "Dissemination by Radio"
rules? How would you encode leap-seconds :-)
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Sanjeev Gupta
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