A shared reference. Distinct local worlds.
From a place on Earth to the solar system and its Galactic setting. Explore the geometry, inspect the clock, and keep the evidence attached.
Direction is a relation
Position directions, velocity directions and coordinate poles remain different quantities. Gaze is never added to a velocity.
| Reference | Kind | Bearing | Elevation | From gaze | Speed / meaning |
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Local orientation uses a declared approximate Earth-rotation model; it is not a precision pointing solution. Never use the display to aim at or observe the Sun.
Location is omitted by default, together with derived local directions that could reveal it. Images show the visible scene. Files are not encrypted.
Local, Global, System, Galactic, Universal, Multiversal and Infinite are the project’s reflective vocabulary. The last three are not additional measured coordinate frames. Notes do not change astronomical calculations.
Same coordinate event / explicit conventions
USST is a proposed presentation and interchange profile over established time scales. It adds a declared epoch and a traceable record—not a new universal clock or a new law of physics.
L_B = 1.550519768 × 10⁻⁸T₀ = 2443144.5003725TDB₀ = −0.0000655 s
IAU 2006 Resolution B3 defines the TDB–TCB relation. The chosen USST epoch is JD 2451545.0 in TCB; the same Julian-date number in UTC, TT or TDB names a different instant.
Coordinate label ≠ local clock
Its proper time depends on motion and gravitational potential. This atlas does not integrate a spacecraft’s proper clock or realize an operational time service.
Ephemeris positions retain TDB compatibility even when the display shows a TCB label. A consistent TCB-compatible spatial realization would require the corresponding scaling and reference treatment.
The displayed decimals report arithmetic, not calibrated physical timing accuracy. UTC conversion depends on the retained leap-second record; Earth rotation depends on UT1 and orientation data.
Calculators / idealized models
Circular test-particle orbit around an isolated Sun.
Period is not clock rate, orbital speed is not a time zone, and this is not a mission trajectory.
Weak field of a spherical, nonrotating, isolated Sun.
Deficit per 86,400 seconds of this isolated model’s Sun-rest coordinate time, normalized at infinity. Not a TCB or Earth-clock prediction.
An exact definition of length, with rounded display arithmetic.
Simultaneous distance/c is not moving-target signal travel time. No light-time or Shapiro-delay solver is implemented here.
A technical vocabulary with declared status
Machine-readable JSON includes the selected data solution and checksum, epoch, compatible spatial quantities, displayed transform, model status, and unavailable conversions.
Earth for life / space for heavy lifting 2.0
Off-world production is a research and infrastructure direction. A net benefit to Earth must be demonstrated per product, destination and lifecycle boundary. Moving a burden does not by itself remove it.
ISS manufacturing and Mars oxygen production establish particular capabilities. They do not establish a self-sufficient space industry or wholesale displacement of terrestrial production.
Include equipment, power, heat rejection, launch, maintenance, loss, return, retirement and environmental effects. Compare against the best feasible terrestrial alternative for the same service.
Prioritize infrastructure that serves actual space demand and can be tested incrementally. An Earth elevator and broad industrial relocation remain long-range proposals, with unresolved feasibility and governance.
Illustrative system sizing / not a design
S₀ = 1361 W/m² nominal reference, normal incidence; effective efficiency is a user assumption. Radiating area counts emitting faces, not footprint. Deep-space sink assumed; eclipse, view factors, absorbed sunlight, redundancy, storage, degradation, mass and array thermal rejection are excluded.
Mass closure / hypothetical scenario
Same destination and equivalent qualified product assumed. Excludes launch capacity, energy-system mass, transport between sites, cost, replacement timing and environmental impact. A mass crossing is neither economic nor ecological break-even.
The technical statement
Read the full 2.0 statement: evidence, functional units, launch and reentry externalities, ISRU, in-space manufacturing, energy, radiators, tethers, decision gates, and accountable governance.
Read Earth for Life 2.0 ↗ Download source textDefine a service and destination; measure the best terrestrial and launched alternatives.
Test yield, power, wear, contamination, quality, failure modes and repair in the relevant environment.
Publish telemetry, externalities and independent verification before increasing capacity.
Require demonstrated benefits, safe retirement and enforceable responsibility. Preserve essential services during transition.
Data custody / reproducible science
The ephemeris is a calculated physical model constrained by observations; the frame is a convention; the interpolation is numerical; USST is a proposed label. None inherits authority merely from appearing in the same interface.
The atlas makes no automatic data-service request. An explicit hosted update reads this deployment’s own data/latest.json. Upstream JPL requests belong in the sequential, cached preparation pipeline.
Outside a real pack’s coverage, the interface explicitly changes to the lower-accuracy JPL element guide. The guide uses the Earth–Moon barycenter and does not invent Earth-center, Moon or barycentric-Sun data.
Held-out ephemeris samples test interpolation at specified epochs. They are not global error bounds or estimates of the underlying ephemeris’s physical uncertainty.
| Target | Source solution / identity | Samples | Held-out position discrepancy |
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The hosted folder is static and portable. It can later move to systemstate.us without changing its internal paths. No Google AI key, account, paid service or Cloudflare Worker is required for this release.
A data publisher can prepare a new verified pack offline, then publish it to the same static path. An AI may explain evidence; it should not manufacture ephemerides, silently rewrite source values or certify its own output.
No analytics or persistent browser storage is built in. Location and sensors require explicit actions. Your hosting site and browser/OS services may have separate policies.
Continuity without erasure
The new shared workspace brings the principal views together. These preserved standalone editions keep their additional workflows, tutorials, exports and reflective sessions. Their original scientific limitations remain visible; they do not silently inherit the new ephemeris.
Source-aware planar maps, prior trajectories, solardian representation, TDB/TCB labels, imported ephemerides, and complete project/state/SVG/CSV export.
Open original atlas ↗Globe, solar and Galactic views, local gaze, phone calibration, posture, swap hands and guided orientation. Earth is approximated by the EMB in this edition.
Open With Earth ↗North-up or bearing-up dial, sky sphere, posture, seven-scope notes, privacy-aware exports, and the three- or six-minute reflective journey.
Open the compass ↗The founding article defines the ambition and proposed vocabulary while separating physical models from reference conventions and local expression.
The atlas’s JSON records expose meanings, source IDs and assumptions. No new Carrier concepts are silently admitted or promoted by this deployment. A later USL expression can pin reviewed definitions and reference this profile explicitly.