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I envision space travel as happening at speeds approaching the speed of light if not warp speeds. I would think that the movements of planets and the tracking thereof is precise enough that there really wouldn't be any corrections to speak of. It would probably depend on the precision of the...

Any artificial system would be essentially meaningless to a given species. Creatures on planets will always think in terms of days, and probably years. Unless everyone on a spaceship grew up on that ship, they would too. That would be the exception, I suppose.

There'd be a giant database dedicated to this celestial map. It would contain all map-relevant info, size, mass and movement. If you found a new planet or whatever, your on-board computer would immediately notify all other computers. Information would have to be approved before going system...

Thanks. Like I said, it would be network of computers. When I said they'd know the location of every celestial body, I meant at any point in time, which means they would have to track it's movements (i.e., the orbit or whatever). This would be child's play for any decent Cray computer. As far...

This is an interesting question. It has to go like this: First, you would have a computer network which contains the location and movement of every celestial body. Much as we do today, you set your course based on where that body will be when you "arrive" (speed x distance). (I'm pretty sure...