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Enterprise

1. Interstellar Travel*

Can We reach the Stars? (Click here)
  • Getting there in a reasonable time
  • overcoming the limitations of rockets
  • it would still require a lot of energy

Are we alone, or is there life elsewhere in the universe? (Click here)
  • Is There anybody out there?
  • Is there any intelligent species creating interstellar empires?
  • Is Life unique to Earth?

Where to go?

Extrasolar Planets are discovered at an increasing pace. Look at:

*Exoplanets from Eric Mamajek

*Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia

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2. VRML Starmaps

VRML What is VRML? Click here for VRML viewing tips

Example VRMLs (created with Star3, se below)*

NOTE: VRMLs and Images will appear in a new browser window

*All stars within 20 Light Years from Sun

*Star Colonization Routes
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3. DownLoad*

Size: 280k Date: 2000-NOV-15 Platform: Win
Star3 A small Windows utility which will read in the Version 3 Gliese data, accept user input for various filter criteria and outputs a VRML file with the results. It will also allow you to set the origin to something other than the sun. It can display lines between stars, based on different criterias.
Size: 724k Date: 2002-MAY-31 Platform: Win
Stellar Stellar is a Windows Graphical application for viewing stars and create routes. Includes a OpenGL 3D view and VRML export.
Add, edit and delete stars and star systems, create colonization routes manualy or rule based and view in 3D.
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4. Links

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* 3D StarMap -- http://www.projectrho.com/starmap.html
  Winchell Chung's excellent 3D Starmap site.
  A very good site for more information about 3D starmaps in general,including plenty of useful do-3D-starmaps-yourself advice and links to many other 3D starmaps.
  This is also the place where You can find other software and Gliese star Catalog.

* Cortona -- http://www.parallelgraphics.com/products/cortona/
  Free VRML97 Viever. I Used this one to verify my VRML97 output.

* http://www2.iicm.edu/vrweb
  Free VRML1 Viever.

* Other Worlds, Distant Suns.   Extrasolar data, Astronomical VRMLs, Star Maps.

* The Kepler Mission. NASA page. The scientific goal of the Kepler Mission is to explore the structure and diversity of planetary systems.

 

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Created 2000-11-15. Last modified 2003-05-21

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