Trying to Connect Some Dots Across the Galaxy...

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...and I could use some help in figuring out some possible implications and whatnot. So could james_nicoll, I suspect, for reasons I'll explain momentarily.

In my last posting on a favourite book mapping out our home galaxy, I noted the announcement of a discovery of a giant "plume" extending out of the galactic plane as posted to spaceref.com in this press release. The original announcement site, at the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory's web service, is here.

Then I stumble onto three posts on related matters here and here at James' LJ, and another one at one of his acquaintances here.

So, now I'm trying to figure out how some or all of this fits together...and what questions I should be asking next.

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In which case, such species as may be arising in the real universe are pretty much doomed to become anything from ashes to fossils-to-be. Which would seem to remove the most exciting possibilities from most space adventure fiction, as near as I can tell at the moment.