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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?
I heard that next time they are going to release the last decimal of pi.
class he-man extends man!
the restaurant at the end of the universe!
So this map must be a fake!
Proud owner of a Mensa membership card.
You should have returned it to its owner.
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.
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!
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
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
Yes, except someone got a decimal point wrong. Slashdot readers still have their souls, but no lives.
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Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
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.
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.
Obligatory reference to centerfolds and geeks.
Carry on.