{"id":3669,"date":"2010-02-01T10:14:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2010-02-01T10:14:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:14:31","slug":"mind-the-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3669","title":{"rendered":"Mind the Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MWTA-300x201.png\" alt=\"MWTA\" title=\"MWTA\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3712\" srcset=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MWTA-300x201.png 300w, http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MWTA-150x100.png 150w, http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MWTA.png 679w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Samuel Arbesman was recently re-reading Carl Sagan&#8217;s novel <i>Contact<\/i>, in which Sagan alludes to &#8220;some sort of cosmic Grand Central Station.&#8221;  That inspired him to create the Milky Way Transit Authority map, laying out the arms of our galaxy in the format of a transit map.  It&#8217;s just lovely, and so elegant in its simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>You can view a larger version and download a PDF of the map at Arbesman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/arbesman.net\/milkyway\/\">site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com\/\">TYWKIWDBI<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Arbesman was recently re-reading Carl Sagan&#8217;s novel Contact, in which Sagan alludes to &#8220;some sort of cosmic Grand Central Station.&#8221; That inspired him to create the Milky Way Transit Authority map, laying out the arms of our galaxy in the format of a transit map. It&#8217;s just lovely, and so elegant in its simplicity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3715,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions\/3715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}