{"id":6917,"date":"2010-02-15T21:11:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T02:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=6917"},"modified":"2010-02-15T21:12:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T02:12:16","slug":"next-last-stop-omicron-centauri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=6917","title":{"rendered":"Next &#038; Last Stop: Omicron Centauri."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mwta.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6918\" title=\"mwta\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mwta.png\" alt=\"mwta\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mwta.png 679w, http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mwta-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though I&#8217;ve never ridden the London Tube, I ride the New York City subway system all the time. So, this graphic by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/arbesman.net\/\" >Samuel Arbesman<\/a>, postdoctoral  fellow at Harvard studying computational sociology, hit me like a little blitz of genius.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/arbesman.net\/milkyway\/\"  target=\"_blank\">a map of our Milky Way galaxy, done in the style of those in the UK underground trains system<\/a>, published by Arbesman&#8217;s imaginary &#8220;Milky Way Transit Authority.&#8221; He says his map is<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>an attempt to approach our galaxy with a bit more  familiarity than usual and get people thinking about long-term  possibilities in outer space. Hopefully it can provide as a useful  shorthand for our place in the Milky Way, the &#8216;important&#8217; sights, and  make inconceivable distances a bit less daunting. And while convenient  interstellar travel is nothing more than a murky dream, and might always  be that way, there is power in creating tools for beginning to wrap our  minds around the interconnections of our galactic neighborhood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since you&#8217;re looking, the red arm, in the Orion belt, pictures Sol, the scientific name of our own star, the Sun. Heading left, the Orion Nebula is the next stop, 1,344 light years away. In other words, traveling 186,282 miles a second, it would take you over 1300 years to get there. Better pack a lunch.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collisiondetection.net\/mt\/archives\/2010\/02\/the_milky_way_t.php\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>collisiondetection.net<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I&#8217;ve never ridden the London Tube, I ride the New York City subway system all the time. So, this graphic by Samuel Arbesman, postdoctoral fellow at Harvard studying computational sociology, hit me like a little blitz of genius. It&#8217;s a map of our Milky Way galaxy, done in the style of those in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,33,21,66,29,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6923,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions\/6923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}