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Interplanetary Superhighway

Posted by michael on from the asteroid-named-rest-stop dept.

rotenberry writes "The current issue of Caltech's Engineering and Science magizine contains the article "Next Exit 0.5 Million Kilometers - A Caltech/JPL collaboration explores the 'Interplanetary Superhighway.'" which describes "...the Interplanetary Superhighway - 'a vast network of winding tunnels in space' that connects the sun, the planets, their moons, and a host of other destinations as well. But unlike the wormholes beloved of science-fiction writers, these things are real. In fact, they are already being used." However, it takes a very long time to get there."

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  1. Any distributed computing people listening? by asparagus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Here is a project I would love to support.

    Massive amounts of numbers to be crunched, tons of routes to be discovered, and all by lowly computers with nothing better to do.

    Proving that some ungodly number of ProcHours can figure out a RC-72 bit key is meaningless to me.

    This is the sort of science humanity is interested in. Onward to Mars!

    -Brett

  2. Hmm.. who wants to start a project on sourceforge? by bigattichouse · · Score: 5, Interesting

    All the math makes me brain spin, but it would be seriously cool to have a linux-based "navigator".. give it the current date and your position and find the nearest routes to Jupiter.

    You know I wonder if this idea opens the thoughts for an interplantary positioning system (IPS)... in order to know where you get off, you'd have to know where you are.

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    meh