A postdoctural fellow at Harvard has come up with a fascinating vision of the Milky Way -- he's turned it into a map not unlike the DC Metro or the London Underground.
Kinda neat.
Kinda neat.
The Milky Way as a subway map...
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Not sure I understand it. Basically the shape of this map is of the barred spiral galaxy that makes up the Milky Way galaxy, with corresponding spiral arms. But I don't get why omicron 2 centauri is where it is, or how distances are plotted.
The connections between the "stations" themselves seem rather arbitrary.
Not a bad idea actually, because if you look closely at the map you'll clearly notice Earth will have to be demolished to make way for a hyper-spacial sub-way bypass...
I think I'll grab my Sub-Etha Sense-O-Matic Thumb and join you...
Neat stuff! 
But think of the financial hit on my Oyster card...
And is the Crab Nebula station closed on Sundays?
And should Seven Sisters station be renamed Pleiades?
Personally I'm making a cross-universe connection to M87 Temple Meads from Mornington Cygnus ("mind the gap"... and when I say "gap", I mean "Cygnus X-1") next week - it's a sleeper service, calling at Intergalactic Expanse Lime Street, Deep Space Charing Cross, and Intergalactic Expanse Waverley. Is there any industrial action or problems with neutrinos on the line?
But think of the financial hit on my Oyster card...
And is the Crab Nebula station closed on Sundays?
And should Seven Sisters station be renamed Pleiades?
Personally I'm making a cross-universe connection to M87 Temple Meads from Mornington Cygnus ("mind the gap"... and when I say "gap", I mean "Cygnus X-1") next week - it's a sleeper service, calling at Intergalactic Expanse Lime Street, Deep Space Charing Cross, and Intergalactic Expanse Waverley. Is there any industrial action or problems with neutrinos on the line?
Mornington Crescent! 
God help us if Mayor BoJo ends up running the Galaxy... 
Levittown and The Hamptons.
*snerf*
*snerf*
At least he'd still be quotable.God help us if Mayor BoJo ends up running the Galaxy...
I’m going to print it on a sheet of sticker paper and put it up a Minneapolis Light Rail hub just for fun.
Absolutely. The Andromedans would just look at him and laugh themselves to death.At least he'd still be quotable.God help us if Mayor BoJo ends up running the Galaxy...
Mornington Crescent!
*applause*
That's really neat.
That's the thing about a schematic-style map. It's less about representing true geography, and more about relative geography, which makes it more usable for transit riders.
Considering that it would take about 30,000years to get to just the nearest star, all I can say it "hope they didn't spend any taxpayer money on that."
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