golyoscsapagy wrote...
Slayer299 wrote...
golyoscsapagy wrote...
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.
You're wrong here, grandpa isn't generalizing to find out "why" the boy wants to go into space. If he was able to travel already why say then that "each world *could*", not does. If you want to ask a young child a 'why' question, you ask them "why do you......?" If it was a ongoing task why so evasive instead of saying "when you're a grown-up/adult" you can goto the stars."
Somedays, maybe's and could are generalities that you use to avoid telling a child something.
Because they are not finished with mapping the universe. Each star could contain a world - which is true according to our current knowledge - because by no means you can assume that EVERY star has a world attached. Same with the life stuff. It doesn't mean anything related to actual space travel. It means that they have a lack of knowledge about the universe because they didn't map the whole thing yet.
Even if they aren't done mapping the universe (and they haven't even done that in 2185, only 1%) you aren't going to say "could" be life, could be be worlds. If they have space travel why is it a theory even if they haven't met any Asari, Krogan, Turians or whatever since they aren't the only forms of life in the galaxy, just the higher developed. Humans know today that life exists out in the Milky Way, we just haven't found it yet because of limitations on space flight.
Yes, because usually when you say to a kid that 'when you grow up' it ends up with around 56 more questions about exact dates, the difference between tomorrow and next year, about education and whatnot. Just try talking to a kid sometime, it's tiresome. It's much easier to deflect the question. It's especially true for questions before bedtime when suddenly everything is terribly important to a kid except going to bed so they ask and ask and ask. Which is the exact situation in this case, so it's easier to deflect and get the little bastard into bed.
I don't have to try, I have two. So, I pretty much know how having kids and their endless (at times) questions go. But deflecting problems really just leads to having the same one and several more now that they've had time to think about it crop up and when it is most inconvenient.
And when its bedtime you say, no more tonight its bedtime, we can talk about it more tomorrow and that works. Kids want to know "when", not just later.
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