Ragdoll Posted February 3, 2010 Report Share Posted February 3, 2010 Thought some of the Star Hero folks would like this. It's a star map made out like the london tube transit system. Snazzy. http://a.fsdn.com/sd/firehose/009/255/192-1.png that's the picture http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/1647245/Tube-Map-Created-For-the-Milky-Way and there's the article. Enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 3, 2010 Report Share Posted February 3, 2010 Re: Awesome new star map. If only interstellar travel were that easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 3, 2010 Report Share Posted February 3, 2010 Re: Awesome new star map. Mind you, that branch out to M13 ought to be sticking out of the page.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted February 3, 2010 Report Share Posted February 3, 2010 Re: Awesome new star map. Mind you' date=' that branch out to M13 ought to be sticking out of the page....[/quote'] Not really no - tube maps aren't to scale, they're symbolic. This map does provide a good basis for a hierarchy of smaller maps though - I wonder if you could create a fractal algorythm to generate progressively more detailed tube maps as you zoom in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted February 3, 2010 Report Share Posted February 3, 2010 Re: Awesome new star map. Looks good 'till you realise that you have to walk five blocks to get to the Earth station, wait 10 minutes at the plaftorm on Alpha Centauri to change trains, another ten minutes at Fomaulhaut, another 10 at Gamma Draconis.... Sure, you can get to M13, but you'd better off driving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 3, 2010 Report Share Posted February 3, 2010 Re: Awesome new star map. And that's different from real life tubes how? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 3, 2010 Report Share Posted February 3, 2010 Re: Awesome new star map. I'm more interested in going to omega Cen anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 Re: Awesome new star map. compare and contrast... [ATTACH=CONFIG]34831[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egyptoid Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 Re: Awesome new star map. someone explain the joke to me: Hamptons? I know its a suburb on long island, but why in the starmap? the google, it does nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 Re: Awesome new star map. I love it. The Milky Way done as a London Tube map! Brilliant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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