"Steve Dufour" <stevejdufour@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:744cc401.0404051109.7589d3f3@posting.google.com...

What if you put a powerful laser somewhere on the Earth's equator
pointing up?  Wouldn't it have the effect of sweeping the Galactic
Plane that the article mentioned?

'Lo Steve -- 

Are you certain that Earth's equatorial plane is the same as the galactic
plane?  I think i read somewhere that both the equatorial plane and the
ecliptic are quite a few degrees *off* the galactic plane.

I suppose all one has to do is to compare the Milky Way with the
equatorial plane?

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Sittin' on the porch stair holdin' your love,
A wonderin' how lucky you are,
A huggin' anda kissin' anda lookin' up above-- 
There went a Shootin' Star!

Indelibly yours,
    Painius