Re: The Stars Our Destination
Relating to the space is really big item, I find that most authors have a problem visualizing the volume within a star system. For example, the volume of space within 40 AU of the Sun is around nine hundred thousand trillion trillion (9×10^29) cubic kilometers. That is enough volume to contain over 800 billion Suns or 800 quadrillion Earths.
Why is this important? There is very little in the way of anything if it is coming in on an oblique angle. While a civilization might have a few polar orbit observational stations orbiting its primary for research and military purposes, that is it except in an unusual star system. Of course the angle of the ecliptic is different for each star system, so what is oblique for one star system might be on the ecliptic of another.
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