"Tube Map" Created For the Milky Way 142
astroengine writes "Assuming you had an interstellar spaceship, how would you navigate around the galaxy? For starters, you'd probably need a map. But there's billions of stars out there — how complex would that map need to be? Actually, Samuel Arbesman, a research fellow from Harvard, has come up with a fun solution. He created the 'Milky Way Transit Authority (MWTA),' a simple transit system in the style of the iconic London Underground 'Tube Map.' (Travel Tip: Don't spend too much time loitering around the station at Carina, there's some demolition work underway.)"
Don't forget to... (Score:5, Funny)
And remember... (Score:5, Funny)
First class gets extra inertial damping. It costs more but it's soooo worth it.
Well (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't forget to... (Score:3, Funny)
The galaxy is a series of Tubes .... (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, the interstellar transport system is like a box of chocolates ... you never know where you're going to end up. It was prototyped from an airport luggage handling system - more specifically, Denver.
Nobody's ever complained. Then again, nobody's ever come back.
Oh great... (Score:4, Funny)
...we ended up on a fucking spur line. Why is it I always have to transfer every time I want to go somewhere cool!
Re:So let me get this straight... (Score:3, Funny)
Planning commission biased as always (Score:5, Funny)
How did Sol rate even a minor station. A crummy little G2 minor league star.
I suspect undue influence at the planning commission or city council for this station to even exist.
Re:Don't forget to... (Score:5, Funny)
Even on that scale, I think it's still Detroit.
Re:Planning commission biased as always (Score:5, Funny)
Mind the gap, please! (Score:2, Funny)
Ah, Asteroids - the icebergs of the sky (Score:2, Funny)
Re:And remember... (Score:5, Funny)
To be goo, or not to be goo. That is the question.
This map is completely unreliable (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This map is completely unreliable (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Planning commission biased as always (Score:5, Funny)
How does that even work, when the universe's population is zero?
Universe
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Population:
None. Although you might see people from time to time, they are most likely products of your imagination. Simple mathematics tells us that the population of the Universe must be zero. Why? Well given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is zero, therefore the average population of the Universe is zero, and so the total population must be zero.