We also find it fascinating to think of the incredible and daunting vastness of the universe in such mundane terms - there’s something eerily soothing about this hop-hop-there-it-is approach to the celestial expanse. People ask why I haven’t marked ‘You Are Here’ on the map – but I think it’s more humbling to realize that we aren’t the center of the universe.” ~ Samuel Arbesman Samuel Arbesman, a Harvard postdoctoral fellow in computational sociology, has created The Milky Way Transit Authority - a brilliantly simplified map of the Milky Way displaying the complex interconnections of our galaxy in a digestible way.īeyond the clever visualization concept, we love the fusion of science and philosophy in Arbesman approach: Now, one scientist has done just that - sort of.
MILKY WAY TRANSIT AUTHORITYĪ dreadfully long subway commute can often send you scrambling for ways to bend the space-time continuum. Here are five such tube-map-inspired gems. And as any meme, it has spawned a number of creative derivatives. By 1960, the Tube Map had evolved into the icon of minimalist modern design that we know and love today - a meme, even. In 1931, Harry Beck designed the first diagramatic map of the London Underground.
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