Re: http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/milkyway.html
From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How accurate is that map with regards to the naming of the arms? If I'm > looking at it correctly, the Norma arm splits out to become the Cygnus and > Perseus arms, our own Orion arm vanishes into either the Perseus or > Saggitarius arm, and the Scutum-Crux arm splits in two like Norma but the > two separate parts don't have separate names. I'd seen other articles/papers which made it clear that Orion (our home arm) is actually just a spur of the grand arms like Perseus and Sagittarius. . > Would all of these be > symptoms of what it says farther down the page, "There is very little data > available about the far side of the Galaxy..."? I'm not an astronomer (and I don't even play one on TV) but it looks like the map in the middle of the page is backed up with data and the rest is a complete (but educated) guess. > Oh, and hey Joshua, what's up? Let's see... The munchkin (Caspian) is 10 months old now. On the verge of walking. He stands like a pro and has amazing balance (like the dog can come over and lick him and he flails about to avoid her but doesn't fall), and walks when you're holding on, but hasn't yet put it together. I tried a "training wheels" approach today - just pushing him slowly forward, not letting him hold on to me - and he squealed with glee. So any day now I bet. Verbally he's a whiz with "dhat" (for "what is that thing I'm pointing at?") and "muh muh muh" (for "I'm hungry and/or I want mommy!") and he seems to consistently say "dah! dah!" when I get home. I'm a manager @ MSFT now, with two people working for me. I think I mentioned the product I'm pouring my life-blood into before, but it's actually gotten news and a real name now so someone on the list may have heard of it - Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003. (Google it if you want the poop.) It's a forms package! No, it's an XML editor! No, it's a development platform. No, wait, it's all of the above! :) No free time otherwise, due to the aforementioned munchkin. Susan was unlucky enough to be in *two* car accidents recently; the second in a rental car *at the auto body shop* while her own car was in getting fixed from the first accident. Neither her fault. She's okay but doing physical therapy for her neck/back. She's also stressing a bunch about the general insanity of the current American government and Big Brother behavior. The Propaganda Remix - http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html - sums up her feelings and paranoia pretty well. As a Canadian, I'm somewhat unempowered, and am just crossing my fingers that sanity returns to this country soon. She's working on the Kucinich campaign (realizing it's a long shot). Joshua _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
