[time-nuts] Pulsars make a GPS for the cosmos

Sanjeev Gupta ghane0 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 26 04:48:14 EDT 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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