The neighbourhood is bigger than we thought!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090106/ap_on_sc/sci_milky_way_7

"Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore."

LJ laid off a chunk of their US staff so everyone is scrambling to back up their blogs etc.

One though on this I had is maybe they are consolidating there tech support in Russia where the bulk of LJ's are.

Non-Russian LJ's are small in number compared to the Cyrillic ones.

Thoughts anyone?