Re: A new Uprising

[Joe Hooper <hooper@analog.org>]

> > Can a galaxy be divided into north, east, south and west? In Star Trek (is
> > this my only knowledge source?) they divide it into sectors alpha, beta,
> > gamma and delta.
>
> Certainly.  It's a spiral galaxy, so it's mostly a disc shape with a big round
> hub in the center.  So there's N, S, E, and W, no problem.  The only real
> trick is figuring out which way is North.

It appears now that most galaxies also have a large-scale (but small)
magnetic field across most of their span, so it's reasonable that one
could assign meaningful directions to magnetic north, south, etc on a
galactic scale.

-Joe Hooper
 hooper@analog.org