Slayer299 wrote...
GnusmasTHX wrote...
We don't. In fact we're told the opposite. The gramps seems to think the kid can visit space within his lifetime.
No, gramps is just saying what every *other* grandparent/parent/etc says to a child when they're putting off answering a question they don't want to right then. "one day, my sweet", does not mean when the child grows up, especially not when you listen to the rest of the conversation where he tells the kid that every planet 'could have different forms of life', emphasis on *could*, not does. That says that humanity does not go off-planet, has not gone off-planet and it is only a far off idea, not a present or near reality.
I think you are trying to imply something which wasn't said per se. The dialog as follows:
'When can I go to the stars?'
'One day my sweet'
'What will be there?'
'Anything you can imagine, our galaxy has billions of stars. Each of those stars could have many worlds. Every world could be home to a different form of life.'
Nothing here implies that space travel is a long way away. If anything the question of
When from the child implies that space travel is a possibility (note, (s)he would ask 'can I go to the stars?' if the only thing (s)he ever heard was a fable about shepard). Stargazes scrip can be interpreted if the stargazer himself is a space farer. If anyone he know how freaking huge our universe is and how long would it take to map all of it. That's why he generalizes to the kid because that's the most correct picture about how huge the task is and WHY do you want to explore the galaxy.
FatalX7.0 wrote...
Prior to the events of Arrival, however, Dr. Amanda Kenson
and her research team calculated that if a large enough mass impacts a
relay with enough force, the relay should not be able to withstand it.
The consequences of destroying a mass relay are immense: as a huge mass
effect engine manipulating massive quantities of energy, a relay could
produce an explosion of supernova proportions.
@first bold
Simply means that a Relay can physically break if a large enough object hits it.
@second bold
Should be obvious. It's Eezo core, it's Mass Effect engine is massive, when that energy is released, in any manner, boom, whole system dead.
Wrong. The only data you can gather from arrival is that if you smash a mass relay with a high-speed asteroid, it goes off uncontrollably.
For a really easy analogy from real life. What do you think would happen if you take an fission bomb, slap a brick of c4 on it and blow it up? Chances are high nothing (well, of course you would have a small explosion from the initial c4 and the charges in the bomb, but fission wouldn't happen).
So, for mass relays there is certanly a way to blow it up as a supernova (via Arrival method) but it doesn't imply it cannot be destroyed with less destructible means (like a fission bomb).
I'm good though. I'm good.
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