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Posted by timothy on Monday January 12, 2004 @10:41PM from the human-chauvinist dept.

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."

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I'm here.. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 22:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Great.. but where the hell are the restrooms?
complete, sure by lemody · 2004-01-12 22:51 · Score: 5, Funny

I heard that next time they are going to release the last decimal of pi.

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1. Re:complete, sure by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 23:21 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I shouldn't say this publicly, since I signed an NDA, but rumour has it that the last two digits are 42.
Hmm... I did not find by tsager · 2004-01-12 23:06 · Score: 5, Funny

the restaurant at the end of the universe!
So this map must be a fake!
Re:Bad joke. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 23:17 · Score: 5, Funny

Proud owner of a Mensa membership card.

You should have returned it to its owner.
Re:Sloan Great Wall? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 23:26 · Score: 5, Funny

I've heard it's so big, you can see it from China.
Re:Bad joke. by Lijemo · 2004-01-12 23:38 · Score: 5, Funny

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!
Mostly harmless by TTL0 · 2004-01-13 00:09 · Score: 5, Funny

" Its view begins with the Earth at the bottom "
"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.

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Re:Bad joke. by fuzzybunny · 2004-01-13 00:26 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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