RE: What're we gonna call it when space travel becomes routine? Universe-ography?
well, space travel is routine-- we just don't notice, because we are traveling on a planet, and moving very slowly..
but i don't think it Universe-ography or even Universography-- since that is the wrong scale
we start with earth (geography, and yes, it comes from geo (a word for for earth) and graphy (write/writing).)
Next scale up is our planetary system.. which we at least know and can more or less map--problem is, while thing change on earth (plate techtonics, and politacaly), the movement is slower.. once you get to a plantetary system, everything is moving all the time..
moving to the next scale would be our galaxy-- the Milky Way galaxy (redundant, since the word Galaxy is from the greek for Milk!--Gala--> lac )
Next scale up is the local cluster-- our galaxy is in the same neighborhood as 3 other galaxies-- (ok, i forgot the cluster name..)
Next scale is the universe-- all the known galaxies, nebuals, dark matter, black holes, pulsars, and other stuff.. some of which can only be seen with radio telescopes.. and is, it seems still expanding..
by the time you've left the Milky Way Galaxy, and move to our local cluster, the study is cosmolology. studying the cosmos.. (greek again--for order , universe)
the current show at the Planetarium has just this theme...and i have seen it once or twice...
