At last, a headline I like

majorbabs · **Posted:** Thu May 20, 2004 10:16 am

KUDOs to whoever came up with the headline in the Omaha World-Herald for a Washington Post story about the separation of galaxies:"100 Billion Years From Solitude"Good to know there's another Garcia Marquez reader out there somewhere. But who else got it?

Gatekeeper · **Posted:** Fri May 21, 2004 12:56 pm

Hmm. Is the headline a reference to how long it's projected to take for our universe to "run out of steam," so to speak?Gatekeeper-30-

majorbabs · **Posted:** Fri May 21, 2004 2:24 pm

No, it's a reference to how far apart the galaxies are. They're very lonely galaxies, ergo the solitude remark.

JPSheehan · **Posted:** Fri May 21, 2004 3:32 pm

Wouldn't it read better, then (as well as closer to the Marquez title), as "One Hundred Billion Years of Solitude"? (I also assumed it was an expansion of cosmos thing.)

majorbabs · **Posted:** Mon May 24, 2004 10:48 am

Yes, Inner Baltimore, that would have been a better headline, but we're grateful for what we get here in the Midwest. Please tell me my favorite restaurant, Bandaloop's, is still alive and well in Federal Hill?

ADKbrown · **Posted:** Mon May 24, 2004 11:53 am

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by JPSheehan:
Wouldn't it read better, then (as well as closer to the Marquez title), as "One Hundred Billion Years [b]of Solitude"? (I also assumed it was an expansion of cosmos thing.)[/b]<hr></blockquote>I think that would depend on what the original hed meant. I am confusd by it. Last I checked, the universe was only 16 billion years old, so the galaxies could not have endured 100 billion years of solitude. Did the hed mean the galaxies are 100 billion light-years apart? But if the universe is 16 billion years old, how can any two objects be more than 32 billion light-years apart?

JPSheehan · **Posted:** Mon May 24, 2004 1:29 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by ADKbrown:
But if the universe is 16 billion years old, how can any two objects be more than 32 billion light-years apart?<hr></blockquote>I was taking it to mean that due to the apparently unending expansion of the universe, we're in for 100 billion years (and more) of solitude . 100 billion is a figure of appropriate poetic license and conveniently enormous scale, I guess. And to majorbabs, yes, I think Bandaloops is still around, but I've only been there once, about 100 billion years ago.

ramblerdan · **Posted:** Tue May 25, 2004 3:22 pm

Blanp, I applaud your restraint.

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