[extropy-chat] Mappa Mundi

[Alfio Puglisi]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Adrian Tymes wrote:

>--- Alfio Puglisi <puglisi at arcetri.astro.it> wrote:
>> 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 :)
>
>Nice idea, but the right scale would render the
>aircraft
>and space probes as way less than a single pixel on
>most
>displays.

Of course, some artistic license (like a 10000x magnification of such
man-made parts) is in order :)

Alfio