Comments on: Encyclopedia Galactica

By: Gary Walker

Gary Walker — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 17:53:32 +0000

Presumably this also marks one more nail in the coffin of young-earth creationism (not that they’ll notice) as Gaia will measure parallax distances accurately out to around 30k LY.

By: Andrew Jaremko

Andrew Jaremko — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 23:55:57 +0000

Thanks Brian! This data should also enable higher precision testing of Mike McCulloch’s MiHsC (quantsed inertia) model. ( physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.ca/ ). I’ve read his book and follow his blog posts as well as yours. I think his ideas are worth experimentally testing, and he has made quite a few predictions that.are testable

By: Brian Koberlein

Brian Koberlein — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:43:48 +0000

We don’t know the exact number, of course, but reasonable estimates put it at 100-400 billion, probably on the lower side.

By: doug bennion

doug bennion — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:27:55 +0000

I’m really picking at nits here, but I thought the Milky Way contains close to one trillion stars, so this mapping is closer to 0.1% than to 1%.

By: Esteban LV (@es7ebanlv)

Esteban LV (@es7ebanlv) — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 01:26:24 +0000

From the Encyclopedia Galactica, 1st Edition, Encyclopedia Galactica Publishing Company, Terminus, 1020 FE.

By: jpatrick

jpatrick — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:38:24 +0000

If I’d had a chance to name the spacecraft, instead of Gaia I likely would have gone with [Hari] Seldon.