...and the world IS flat.

It's not been a good week for yours truly. My dog ran away, my girlfriend dumped me, the doctor says it might be malignant. Now, if I didn't have enough troubles, some scientist with more money and brains than I'll ever have just announces that the galaxy is not a spiral. It is in fact a barred spiral. WTF.

This is a big deal. This means that all of my maps of the Milky Way are wrong. And what about the people on Star Trek? You would expect that if anyone had accurate maps of the galaxy it would be them. But all of their maps show a very spiral Milky Way. Who does this 20th century scientist think he is going up against the likes of that? I don't see you gallivanting around the universe at Warp 9. No sir.

What impact is this going to have on daily life? Will this change your horoscope? Will civilization crumble over the fallacy that is the "Spiral Home Galaxy Theory." I would get some water and canned meat just to be sure.

So how's everyone else's day going in the barred spiral that we call home?