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[thepiebaker]

So watching Cosmos with Neil Degrasse Tyson I was reminded of the expected collision between the MW and Andromeda. While I'm aware that this event is expected in the far off future even for when ME:A is expected to take place do you think that ME:A or a future instalment may touch upon this event?

[SKAR]

I sure as hell hope not.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

I doubt it. I don't see a story they could make that revolves around it. 

[SKAR]

I doubt it. I don't see a story they could make that revolves around it.

Wait and see. They may have the reapers come back to harvest us before we die forever.

[capn233]

I don't see why they would mention it.  Hardly anybody plans 4 billion years in advance.

[ZipZap2000]

I don't see why they would mention it. Hardly anybody plans 4 billion years in advance.

Not unless they reap things. That requires a level of planning that is beyond our comprehension.

[Norhik Krios]

To be fair, when people think about colliding galaxies they think of apocalyptic events and everything going down the toilet. The worst thing that would happen, to the solar systems near the centers, are the two supermassive black holes merging into one even bigger one. That would fugg the centric systems up big time, the rest? A few systems, planets and stars would get thrown out into the void, but there's too much space between all the stuff, of course, mathematically, there will be things that will collide. Space is just too big. If earth would still exist, it's more likely to stump your toe, trip backwards out the window, get hit by a truck and get swooshed into donald trump, than earth getting hit by anything.

But I can't deny, that the event would be a sight to behold, just imagine looking into the night sky and seeing an entire galaxy filling out the sky above... excuse me for one second, my pants are wet...

Okay I'm back. To answer OP's question, I'd rather leave that whole story out, than mention it via text like "hurr durr did you know that in 4 billion years from now we could get back to earth..." yeah, no crap, just don't do it please.

[straykat]

5 Billion years. Nothing's worth that wait.

[Zazzerka]

I've already taped down my pets and moved all breakables to the bottom shelf. No galactic collision is going to make a fool out of me.

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

 

Eeeekl!

[MrBSN2017]

If you can traverse the space between galaxies, why not just go to another one? Also those science bozos are speculating beyond their capacity. I'm sure it will be viewed in a similar fashion as the flat earth theory is today.

[straykat]

If you can traverse the space between galaxies, why not just go to another one? Also those science bozos are speculating beyond their capacity. I'm sure it will be viewed in a similar fashion as the flat earth theory is today.

 

Flat earth would be considered a phenomenal perspective. Err.. or.. I'm lacking the right word. Merely looking at the obvious, from your own point of view. It was never scientific to begin with.

 

Astro physicists would be the first to say they can be wrong, but they're calculating trajectories, Newton's laws of gravity, mass, time, etc.. Not merely speculating.

[thepiebaker]

I'm aware that we're billions of years away from the technical merging even for ME:A is supposed to take place. We are however taking a leap a few centuries in the time line. Later games can take more. Later games can also cover an antagonist that for X reason tries to accelerate the "collision" and a regrouping with the MW.

If you ask me this is better conversation than can we bone an elcor, redhead, or rock and why asari now have eyebrows.

[capn233]

I don't know.  I think the Asari mysteriously having eyebrows is more important.  Guess we will see how much attention to detail the devs will have this time around.

[AngryFrozenWater]

Oh! Right! That's 4 billion years from now...

 

Then you'll excuse me. There are... preparations to make... continuity of civilizations to consider...

[Catastrophy]

No.

[Silvery]

Maybe there would be a passing reference to it, but that would be it. 

[SofaJockey]

If you ask me this is better conversation than can we bone an elcor, redhead, or rock and why asari now have eyebrows.

 

I think the word you were looking for is 'different', not 'better'... 

[thepiebaker]

I think the word you were looking for is 'different', not 'better'...

As far as repeated conversation topics go they're synonymous.

[Giantdeathrobot]

To be fair, 4 billion years is a long time.

 

Like, let's say Andromeda happens in the year 3000 (and that's being very generous with the travel time).

 

The collision happens in (about) the year 4000003000.

 

Even assuming that Mass Effect humans end up living for 200 years on average (hey, medical advances!), that's something like 20 million generations down the line. 

 

Even Batman doesn't prepare that far ahead. 

[themikefest]

I already sent out invitations for a Collision Party.

[yolobastien6412]

Nothing will actually happen apart from a beautiful night sky. 

[Snorka]

To scale it right down, if the milky way was a ball 100 meters high and Andromeda was a 220 meter high ball they would only be 2.5 km away from each other.  

[Degs29]

So watching Cosmos with Neil Degrasse Tyson I was reminded of the expected collision between the MW and Andromeda. While I'm aware that this event is expected in the far off future even for when ME:A is expected to take place....

 

Uh, yep!  By billions of years. 

[Wulfram]

Uh, yep!  By billions of years.

Unless our cunning strategy to reach Andromeda is to wait for it to come to us.