[extropy-chat] Mappa Mundi

[Alfio Puglisi]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Anders Sandberg wrote:

>http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0309415
>[astro-ph/0310571] A Map of the Universe by J. Richard Gott III, Mario
>Juric, David Schlegel, Fiona Hoyle, Michael Vogeley, Max Tegmark, Neta
>Bahcall and Jon Brinkmann. Extra material at
>http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~mjuric/universe/.
>
>A map showing a geocentric perspective of the entire universe. The trick
>is to make one direction logarithmic, which makes it possible to depict
>everything (more or less) from the Earth's core out to the Big Bang. The
>other direction represents declination, making this a slice across the
>universe along the ecliptic.

Now what's needed is some artist to replace the circles with actual
planet photos, the triangles with galaxy photos, put a blue/black
background, paste in some aircraft and space probes at the right scale,
and you've got something that can be distributed widely :)

ALfio