Showerthoughts @lemmy.world Flying Squid @lemmy.world 1 mo. ago

The 1920s was "a long time ago" and the Andromeda galaxy is "a galaxy far, far away." Maybe the original trilogy took place 100 years ago in the next galaxy over.

47 comments

I agree, Star Wars is real and Chewbacca is Bigfoot
- Never seen this before but 11/10
- 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.
My grandma was born in 1917. I think of that sometimes to remember just how far back my connections go.
- 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.
- 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?
  
  Ww1? Dang that is crazy
  
  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.
- My grandma once told me how she chopped a burglar's hand off in 1918.
  She lived till 2010.
  
  Oh
  
  How about the burglar?
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.
- That is a good point.
- Wouldn't it be slightly further away?
  
  Should be "a slightly longer time ago" though I believe
  
  Slightly further away in the sequel trilogies, but slightly closer because it was a prequel.
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
Well this planet is definitely a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Now this is a genuine shower thought
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.
- 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!”
This is probably the stupidest thing I have ever read. How is any of it related to itself or even a thought?

You've viewed 47 comments.