"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 your towel! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I don't get the kind of people, who call sun "s (Score:1, Insightful)
Sol is the sun's official name. "The sun" is colloquial. I suspect that when we have colonists on other planets, they will probably refer to their star as "The sun" in day-to-day conversation rather than talking about "Alpha Centairi B-shine today" in the weather.
Tubes? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:This map is completely unreliable (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Well (Score:4, Insightful)
My job is located at Galaxy Center. But I live at The Hamptons. The problem is, I have to take Brown line and yellow line to reach the center,
Dude, you can warpspeed over to Outer Junction, and take just about any line from there. It's not far at all. That's the problem with these schematic maps: people don't learn the real geography.