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Old 12-20-2017, 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by tbzep
You are kidding, right? Blackshire was just having fun introducing the article about Korean astronomers finding a near twin to our own galaxy.
Yep--that's all I was doing. To us (if not to galaxies, in comparison with their diameters), 180 light-years is indeed "far, far away." Ditto for "A long time ago"; if that was the galaxy, and we could "hear" radio evidence of that cinematic conflict today, that would mean that those events occurred 180 million years ago, about three times farther back in time than the demise of the dinosaurs here on Earth. Some quasars (what were, as we see them today as they were then, very bright, young galaxies) are *billions* ("sagans" :-) ) of light years away... Also:

Actually, George Lucas was wise to ^not^ be specific about *which* galaxy or era (as referenced to Earth) the events of the movies occurred in, just in case, say, that galaxy was later found to be hostile to life because of higher radiation there. The star orbited by Vulcan in the "Star Trek" series and movies was identified as 40 Eridani (it's actually a triple star system), but so far, no habitable exoplanets have been found there (see: http://www.space.com/33653-is-plane...-trek-real.html )--they should have maintained Gene Roddenberry's silence regarding which stars are the home suns of which races.
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