The uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy (Suburban Line)

by Kieran Healy on January 8, 2009

The Milky Way Transit Authority.

(Via Elaine.)

{ 10 comments }

1

Chuckchuck 01.08.09 at 6:48 pm

What? No express to the Hamptons? Forget about it.

2

Knecht Ruprecht 01.08.09 at 7:17 pm

The NIMYBY’s on Omega Centauri didn’t want a direct connection from the galactic center so that–you know, those life forms–couldn’t come out and rob their properties.

3

Jasper Milvain 01.08.09 at 8:20 pm

Gill rather than Johnston, but you can’t have everything.

4

Joshua Holmes 01.08.09 at 8:36 pm

Pffft. Another white elephant.

5

Zarquon 01.08.09 at 8:54 pm

Mornington Crescent!

6

Adam Roberts 01.08.09 at 9:59 pm

Crux-Scutum is one euphonious name for an underground train line.

7

Antti Nannimus 01.08.09 at 10:48 pm

Hi,

What time is the next train out of Sol?

Have a nice day!
Antti

8

dr ngo 01.09.09 at 12:11 am

Gill rather than Johnston, but you can’t have everything.

Another fontamentalist heard from.

9

The Raven 01.09.09 at 3:00 am

And everyone gets sucked into the black hole at the center.

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Chris E 01.09.09 at 2:42 pm

AFAICR TFL has a look and feel style copyright on images also and tend to enforce it fairly rigourously. This is why those ‘alternate tube map’ sites tended to disappear, see:

http://www.geofftech.co.uk/tube/sillymaps/

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