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Anonymous Coward writes "NY Times today has an essay about a map of the entire universe produced by two Princeton astronomers using a variety of data including the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Its view begins with the Earth at the bottom and extends back almost to the Big Bang at the top, including such objects as the Sloan Great Wall, 1.37 billion light-years long. The map can be found here."
I can see my house...
mailto:EatSpamAndDie@princeweb.com
Great.. but where the hell are the restrooms?
With 500k graphical images to download you can be sure that by the time you read this you are too late - its been slashdotted!!
Oooh, the Total Perspective Vortex!
*waits for Gargravarr to make an appearance*
Get out of my garden !!!
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
I heard that next time they are going to release the last decimal of pi.
class he-man extends man!
Investors showed their appreciation and stock prices backed all the way up to the fifth floor, when a plumber was called to alleviate the massive flooding.
signatures are for fools with hands
Pretty cool picture though; It'll look real nice alongside the Unix Family Tree on the wall. If only there was a landscape version... time for some PostScript hacking I guess.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
Nope.
Can't see SCO anywhere.
If you zoom in on the SDSS galaxies at about 1 giga-parsec, it looks like one of them's broadcasting a message... looks like... "Can you hear me now?"... that can't be right.
These sigs are more interesting tha
the restaurant at the end of the universe!
So this map must be a fake!
Ah, but is it visible from space!? (meh, sorry)
TheHustler
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The Chinese government is claiming to have property rights over all thing relating to "Great Walls" and are demanding the universe pay royalties for using this "Great Wall". In other news, the computer used to generate this map of the universe was running Linux so SCO is now claiming ownership over the entire universe. Permits to live in their universe may be purchased at any local SCO vendor for $699.
Proud owner of a Mensa membership card.
You should have returned it to its owner.
>Maybe we should suggest a Sun Base to our deer leader
George is a deer leader? That explains some things.
Do not be alarmed. This is only a test.
It's got to be somewhere on the map!
All spelling mistakes are in my mind and are faithfully reproduced by my fingers
I've heard it's so big, you can see it from China.
Now that we have a map, how long before the kids start asking "Are we there yet?"
This is clearly wrong. It doesn't look anything like the map in Frontier: Elite II.
All flat maps of the US are lies. I mean, don't these people realize that it's impossible to make an acurate flat representation of a curved surface? Rivers change course, mountains are growing and erodeing, and don't even get me started on changing town and county boundaries. Besides, some of these maps have less than 50 meter accuracy in the placement of roads. They are lying to their customers!
SCO won't be happy when they find out they're not at the center of it...
But where's Hell and that old fart on his throne?
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http://www.stanford.edu/class/engl174b/chain.ht
Obviously the Spanish Inquisition got to them first. Incidentally, the link says the Catholic Church finally agreed the Earth wasn't at the centre of the solar system in 1983!
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
did you notice the name of the primary author from the preprint on astro-ph/0310571?!
J. Richard Gott III - and guess what "Gott" means in german?
(same as english "god" of course!
Wow, so Earth really is at the center of the universe! I knew it!
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"What? Harmless? Is that all it's got to say? Harmless! One word!"
Ford shrugged.
"Well, there are a hundred billion stars in the Galaxy, and only a limited amount of space in the book's microprocessors," he said, "and no one knew much about the Earth of course."
"Well for God's sake I hope you managed to rectify that a bit."
"Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement."
"And what does it say now?" asked Arthur.
"Mostly harmless," admitted Ford with a slightly embarrassed cough.
"Mostly harmless!" shouted Arthur.
Sanity is the trademark of a weak mind. -- Mark Harrold
I had to park out near Rigel and walk in. Who wants to bet my radio will still be there when I get back? Rigel's a tough neighborhood. I walked in to a bar and ordered a shot. Everybody ducked.
All flat maps of the US are lies.
You bet they are. I've spent hours looking for the gigantic 'M' that's supposed to be near the immense yellow dotted line crossing through my town.
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
I found Waldo hidden in the Great Wall!
To-do List: Receive telemarketing call during a tornado warning. Check.
"Report from the NEA: public school officials are elated! One administrator says: 'since we eliminated tests there is no more prayer in school!'. "
Have you hugged your penguin today?
Maybe we should suggest a Sun Base to our deer leader :)
I've heard the people on the Sun have had problems with global warming and high levels of background radation. In their favour though, they do seem to have got nuclear fusion working, which we have so far failed to do here on Earth.
Special protection orders? Anyway, I'm sure some aliens will be happy to modify them and send them back to us, at which point the issue will come up as to whether the Creator is still around. Down, V'ger, that's a good boy.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
I think I see my dad.
Confirmed. Last time I took a trip around the Sun, it took me about a year to do it. And for free ! Food and accomodation at your expense, though.
Space tourism is much more affordable than some say.
In Soviet Russia, our new overlords are belong to all your base.
It's the largest wall of urinals known to mankind.
So Gallileo was wrong. The universe does revolve around the earth ;)
Obligatory reference to centerfolds and geeks.
Carry on.
It is interesting to see the Voyagers and Pioneer spacecraft on there. It is a fascinating subject for me, I believe that our technology will advance at sufficient speed that we will actually catch up with these craft with some future technology, and the issue will come up as to whether we bring them back to Earth as museum pieces or leave them on their course with special protection orders on them.
it wouldn't matter, The Klingon's would still use it for target practice
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.