Kooky as it sounds, humans will be visiting M-31 by the end of this
decade, despite our inability to travel at faster-than-light speeds.
How is this possible? Simply because the M-31 I'm referring to here
is *not* the famed galaxy in the direction of Andromeda but rather
a new hotel to be constructed in downtown San Francisco.

A brief mention is made in the latter part of the following article:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...UG54GSUD21.DTL

.... which proves that the hotel's owners are a bit confused as to M-31's
cosmic namesake:

The company [Personality Hotels of Union Square] also plans to break
ground at 80 Ellis St. by late 2007 for a new hotel called M-31, "The
name of the largest star in the galaxy,'' Lembi-Detert said. The
company will need financing for the new property, which is one of the
reasons she hired new CEO Stephen Algood this month, she said.


Notwithstanding their poor celestial classification skills, I applaud
Personality Hotels for choosing the fashionably cryptic name "M-31."
If they had instead adopted "Messier 31," potential guests might
presume mistakenly that the hotel suffers from poor maid service...


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