This paper was a truly a group effort, and the author list includes only some of the many people who have contributed to it. The entire project was inspired by a question: “Is Nessie parallel to the Galactic Plane?,” asked by Andi Burkert at the 2012 “Early Phases of Star Formation” (EPoS) meeting at the Ringberg Castle in Bavaria. Two EPoS attendees beyond the author list contributed significant ideas and data to this work, most notably Steven Longmore and Eli Bressert. We are grateful to Cormac Purcell for giving us advance online access to the HOPS data, and to Mark Reid for generously sharing his expertise on Galactic structure. The text here was largely written by Alyssa Goodman; the theoretical ideas come primarily from Andi Burkert; and much of the geometrical analysis was carried out by Christopher Beaumont, Bob Benjamin, and Tom Robitaille. Tom Dame and Bob Benjamin provided expertise on Galactic structure, and the Dame provided the CO maps in Figure xx. xxMore on contributions will go here!xx
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