I've been there. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Ya just gotta take a gander at it from a distance.
Half a million light years should do it.
A Galactic combover....Cool!
Would not an expanding arm or spiral be sucked up and/or distorted by all the billion other galaxies?
Caused by global warming or George Bush?
It looks like its going clockwise. If we go below the equator will it look like its going counter-clockwise?
“Arms Around The Galaxy”
Sounds like an interstellar Fundraiser...
(or a Weapons-dealer Convention ;-)
this is nothing science.
“arms” is total visual interpretation term, not anything else.
What language was this originally written in?
It doesn’t seem like the author was particularly familiar with astronomy....chemistry...physics.
The ancients, sitting in the pasture minding the sheep, had a very hard time understanding the geometry and motions of the cosmos. Most of it, they got wrong. Today, we have a very good understanding of the Solar System witnessed by our ability to sling machines that land, orbit, or pass by planets with great precision.
Our understanding of the galaxy has not reached that level. Check back in a few decades, you will be amazed.
And when we smash into the Andromeda Galaxy, none of it will make a difference.
I plan to watch that from someplace. :)
Sorry. Just can’t get my arms around this theory.
So the arm serves as a sort of cape, to keep the intergalactic cold out. :-)
I've been there. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.