Since there is no up, down, right, left, east, west, north, or south, in space you wonder what kind of directions we will give when we start to routinely travel through space, amirite?

You mean to go to Pigfarts right?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, space. Mars is not the only planet out there.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was just saying that the reason we would be giving directions for space travel was so we could get to pigfarts, which does indeed happen to be on mars.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yep, the ONLY reason for giving directions for space travel is going to a fictional place on a planet that as far as we know, does not support our way of life. I just hate people thinking they're so cool because they manage to sneak a AVPM/S reference anywhere they can.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Whatever dude... Go hate on real problems, not my taking pleasure in something funny. Deal with it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Opposite direction of the sun, take a right at Mars (when it travels by), if you hit Pluto, you've definitely gone too far.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But how would you know in which direction Mars is? The opposite direction of the Sun could also be the opposite direction of mars.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Exactly.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What? Wait, was your first post sarcastic?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

haha Yeah, it was. Sorry about the confusion, if only comments could have tone as well.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Hahaha alright, my bad. Sarcasm really doesn't transfer well over text, I guess.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

x,y,z co-ordinates

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What would the axis correspond with? Where would the point of origin be? Which way would be positive and which would be negative? How would we keep track of the really big or really small numbers when we get farther from Earth?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Use our sun as 0,0,0 then choose a positive and a negative sides i guess haha?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

How would we keep track of our relative position to the sun? And how would we keep our sense of direction without magnetism or gravity?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We'll probably orient ourselves by the position of planet earth, since I assume everyone will know where it is. And there'll be landmarks in the way of stars and planets. Our maps will have to be in three dimensions instead of two, but I think we'll figure it out. It'll be kind of like in Ender's Game when he decided that the enemy's gate was down. We'll probably want to keep thinking in those terms, so we're going to have to pick a direction and call it north.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Coordinates are easier..

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Where's the fun in coordinates???

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Besides the fact that 3d space is a headache contained in a few numbers?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

How will we know where Earth is when we're at the other end of the galaxy?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But we can't orient ourselves with Earth, because Earth moves. We would have to use a star, like the Sun.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We can ask the aliens when the come again and give us the technology. http://ctrlv.in/40453

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hahahaha I thought I was the only person who noticed that he does that every time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If so, many ancient alien theorists suggest that...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

the same way that airplane coordinates work

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Airplanes are affected by gravity and magnetism.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Point in the direction and hope the other person makes it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Possible use the center of the Milky Way as the point of origin, and as the Milky Way rotates so would the grid.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We'll travel the same way they send out satellites, and they'll probably pre-determine the route before you go out so it's programmed to go a certain way.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Directions will be completely controlled by google maps. Their computers will take time and place and generate spaceviews based on where planets will be at certain times(since planetary motion is periodic). There will be no directions per se but by the power of google you will still be able to get from point a to point b.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

People won't last long enough to see the day.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Wow I never thought of this before. Wouldn't it be a shame if we developed an intergalactic space craft only to find out that we don't know how to navigate?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

First star on the right and straight on till morning!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Projection Vectors.

by Anonymous 12 years ago