[karajorma]

Originally posted by Liberator


Uhm, the last I heard the galactic diameter is about 100,000 light years.  You're off just a bit there.

No I`m not. Go check how THICK the galactic disk is in the Z direction rather than how wide it is in x or y.

[Liberator]

True, but as width is generally accepted to be the larger measure when compared you should have been more clear in the original post.

[Sesquipedalian]

Actually, no, "width" doesn't mean anything in particular beyond "distance across some arbitrary dimension."  It is for that reason that it is obscure in meaning in karajorma's earlier post, and not for any other.  A bit better intuitive clarity might have been achieved by the word "thick" instead of "wide," but even that would conceivably be open to misinterpretation.

[karajorma]

Yeah. Thick would have been a little clearer but it still wouldn`t prevent some people from getting it wrong

[Cannikin]

Oops...

[Petrarch of the VBB]

The upshot of all this is that Shivan space could be closer to Sol than we ever thought possible.