RE: starship-design: Suspended animation.

["N. Lindberg" <nlindber@u.washington.edu>]

In English, "galaxy" means a large gravitationaly bound collection of
stars, such as our own milky way, M31, etc. 


On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Zenon Kulpa wrote:

> > From owner-starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu Sat Jan  8 00:20:54 2000
> > From: "L. Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net>
> [...]
> > 
> > It has aroused the interest of space scientists investigating 
> > the possibility of interstellar travel, allowing human exploration 
> > of galaxies many light years away.
> > 
> Is it true that in common parlance in English "galaxy"
> means already simply a "star/planetary system"?
> 
> -- Zenon Kulpa
>