What will really bake your noodle is that it takes time for light to reach us. We are seeing light that anywhere from a few minutes to a few billion years old.
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And when the light from Andromeda reaches us in 2.5 million years, you'll all see my shower thought was right.
And in 2.5 million years when the light from your thought reaches the folks in Andromeda, they’ll be like…
“Woah! Star Wars happened right here!”
In the lead up to the release of Episode 1, the Sci-Fi channel ran some bumpers of fans waiting in line arguing with each other. One of them said something to the effect of, "Given that this is a prequel, and that we know the universe is expanding, shouldn't the crawler read, 'A slightly less long time ago in a Galaxy slight less far away...'" 25 years later and that still pops into my head sometimes.
Wouldn't it be slightly further away?
Slightly further away in the sequel trilogies, but slightly closer because it was a prequel.
Oh shoot, right. I was thinking real life time not story time.
That is a good point.
Now this is a genuine shower thought
The nearest galaxy is still crazy fuckin far.
Over 2.5 million light years away assuming 3x the speed of light would still be over 800,000 years of flight time.
That really depends on what you count as a Galaxy. If any cluster of stars that is gravitationally bound together counts, then there is a tiny (10,000 stars) galaxy that is orbiting The Milky Way that's only about 10,000 light years away from us, which happens to be closer than the center of our own galaxy.
Yeah, but if you're on a ship that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs...
It's just a faster route to get through a hyperspace dead zone it's a retcon but at least a somewhat logical one if you ignore the sapient hyperspeed space whales.
You also have to ignore the whole 'falcons exist a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away' thing.
Me, I go with 'George didn't know what a parsec was. The ship goes super fast.' I mean he's not a scientist.
He didn't, he admits it.
Yeah, and I'm fine with that. I don't need a "plausible" explanation for everything. Same with Star Trek. In Voyager, Tom Paris goes faster than warp 10, which is infinitely fast. And he doesn't travel infinitely far. Or all that far at all. How is that possible? The writers said so. Why did he turn into a salamander afterward? Because that's what happens when you go faster than warp 10. Whatever, as long as I'm enjoying it.
Edit: also, as far as I know, the TV show with the most people with advanced degrees who have worked on it is Futurama and they never let science get in the way of a good joke.
Warp 10 is infinitely fast, then how come the upgraded Enterprise D can go warp 13!?!?!
edit: I don't know how to make this a link...
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/All_Good_Things..._(episode)#Continuity
#it'sJustAShowIShouldReallyJustRelax
Tos speeds and afterwards are different.
Don't they keep redefining exactly how fast warp 10 is? I seem to recall that it keeps getting faster over the years
The Enterprise D Technical Manual that Sternbach and Okuda released, which was supposed to be about as canon as it gets, says warp 10 is infinite speed. Go figure.
Maybe it's Warp 9.9 that is ever increasing. I don't really remember, but I distinctly remember reading two different tech manuals describing the "fastest possible speed of any federation vessel" as two entirely different multiples of C, and Warp 10 being defined as the fastest possible speed.
This is probably the stupidest thing I have ever read. How is any of it related to itself or even a thought?
My grandma was born in 1917. I think of that sometimes to remember just how far back my connections go.
My grandma once told me how she chopped a burglar's hand off in 1918.
She lived till 2010.
Oh
Mine was born in 1906! She remembered London being bombed in WWI. How weird is it that I actually talked to someone who remembered that?
Mine told me that she was a child in her father's Model T and that lightning struck and exploded a tree right behind them as they were driving. I always loved that story.
Ww1? Dang that is crazy
Yep! And even crazier- they bombed with zeppelins!
I've always wanted to ride on a zeppelin. I hear they are working on hybrid blimps but we will have to wait and see.
I think it would be really cool to be able to have dinner on a blimp. Right now I think the focus is on cargo.
That's what I was thinking! Pretty crazy.
I have something similar but from ww2
The story I was told:
My grandmother and two of her brothers decided to emigrate to Canada when their neighbor found an unexploded bomb in the chimney.
The nightly bombings kinda scarred her for life
My dad was a kid in London in WWII. I'm only in my late 40s, but he was in his 40s when I was born, so it's a long chain.
And we have a related WW2 story. My grandfather was an air raid warden, meaning he was out in the streets when the bombs were dropping to get people to safety (I wish I had an ounce of that sort of bravery). He told me once he was inspecting a house and the floor gave way and he literally landed on top of an unexploded bomb!
They also lost four houses in the bombings. My dad had all kinds of crazy stories like sleeping on the Underground platform during a raid and getting woken up by commuters stumbling over him on the way to work the next morning.
So I guess we're lucky our ancestors made it out of there alive.
My grandma was born in 1920. She died last year at 103.
I know she couldn't live forever, but she was the best person ever. Is it so wrong to want her to live to be 200 years old?
No, I feel that some people should be allowed immorality.
Well this planet is definitely a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
USE THE FORCE, SEE? nyah
A long long time ago, in a galaxy far away
Naboo was under an attack
And I thought me and Qui-Gon Jinn
Could talk the federation in
To maybe cutting them a little slack
I agree, Star Wars is real and Chewbacca is Bigfoot
Chewbacca is Bigfoot
There was an out-of-continuity comic where Han Solo crashed the Falcon on Earth; Chewbacca survives and becomes the basis for the Bigfoot legend.
Never seen this before but 11/10