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[Fromyou]

 Why is it that everything that the reapers do is only in the Milky Way galaxy when there are millions more out there 

[DarthCaine]

What makes you think they don't do it in other galaxies as well?

Or perhaps they can't travel between galaxies

Or maybe what Harbinger meant by "Salvation through destruction" is that they are protecting us from the other galaxies

Modifié par DarthCaine, 21 mars 2010 - 06:34 .

[McBeath]

Prehaps they move around from galaxy to galaxy, taking life. Fifty thousand years is a long time, I'd imagine they'd harvest different galaxies at different times, all spaced out evenly.

[ItsFreakinJesus]

Maybe it's because they originated within the Milky Way galaxy and all of the other galaxies are ****ing far away.

[Dethateer]

McBeath wrote...

Prehaps they move around from galaxy to galaxy, taking life. Fifty thousand years is a long time, I'd imagine they'd harvest different galaxies at different times, all spaced out evenly.

Except that you actually see them waking up from hybernation. Not to mention that it would take a f**kload longer than 50.000 years to reach the nearest galaxy, even at lightspeed.

[InvaderErl]

Fromyou wrote...

 Why is it that everything that the reapers do is only in the Milky Way galaxy when there are millions more out there 

The distances between galaxies are far greater than you think. Even the Reapers may not be capable of reaching them.

[Dethateer]

InvaderErl wrote...

Fromyou wrote...

 Why is it that everything that the reapers do is only in the Milky Way galaxy when there are millions more out there 

The distances between galaxies are far greater than you think. Even the Reapers may not be capable of reaching them.

You don't even see the galaxies themselves, you see the nearest one, Andromeda, where it was 2.500.000 years ago. For all we know, it might not even exist anymore.
You could say you're looking at the past.

Modifié par Dethateer, 21 mars 2010 - 06:41 .

[BP20125810]

That could be a spoiler. i mean the reapers gota come from somewhere. Dark space is WAY to general.

[InvaderErl]

Dethateer wrote...

InvaderErl wrote...

Fromyou wrote...

 Why is it that everything that the reapers do is only in the Milky Way galaxy when there are millions more out there 

The distances between galaxies are far greater than you think. Even the Reapers may not be capable of reaching them.

You don't even see the galaxies themselves, you see the nearest one, Andromeda, where it was 2.500.000 years ago. For all we know, it might not even exist anymore.

True, space boggles the mind.

[thegreateski]

They don't have the tech to reach them obviously.

[Dethateer]

BP20125810 wrote...

That could be a spoiler. i mean the reapers gota come from somewhere. Dark space is WAY to general.

Are you people forgetting that the Reapers need Mass Relays to reach a galaxy they're barely outside of? There's no way in hell of them coming from another one, they obviously originate from the Milky Way.

[SuperMedbh]

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


Here's a more prosaic way of getting perspective on the distances in space (from a lecture by Dr. Blair of John Hopkins):

Imagine that the distance from the earth to the sun (93 million miles, or about 8 light minutes) is
compressed to the thickness of a typical sheet of paper. On this scale, the nearest star (4.3 light years) is at a distance of 71 feet. The diameter of the Milky Way (100,000 light years) would require a 310 mile high stack of paper, while the distance to the Andromeda galaxy (at 2 million light years one of the most distant objects visible to the naked eye) would require a stack of paper more than 6000 miles high! On this
scale, the "edge" of the Universe, defined as the most distance known quasars some 10 billion light years hence, is not reached until the stack of paper is 31 million miles high--a third of the way to the sun on the real scale of things!

Modifié par SuperMedbh, 21 mars 2010 - 06:52 .

[Dethateer]

SuperMedbh wrote...

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-
bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the
road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

A certain pot of petunias and a sperm whale could not care less how big space is.

[InvaderErl]

Dethateer wrote...

SuperMedbh wrote...

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-
bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the
road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

A certain pot of petunias and a sperm whale could not care less how big space is.

"Oh no, not again!"

[Dethateer]

What as that guy's name, again? The bat thing that kept getting killed, I mean.

[binaryemperor]

The milky way galaxy is 100,000 lightyears across. With mass relay technology you can make it through from one end to the other very quickly, the only limitation is that you have to take multiple relays. I think said limitation is only due to obstructions blocking the linear Relay paths rather than the capacity of the Relays themselves.



I think it would be possible to have a single Relay launch you through darkspace to the andromeda galaxy, which is 2 million lightyears away... the only problem is building a receiving Relay on the other side, because I believe the larger ones require a receiver... But yes, I believe the Reapers could easily figure out a way to bridge the gap between galaxies...

[binaryemperor]

Dethateer wrote...

What as that guy's name, again? The bat thing that kept getting killed, I mean.

Agrajag 

[mjboldy]

Dethateer wrote...

InvaderErl wrote...

Fromyou wrote...

 Why is it that everything that the reapers do is only in the Milky Way galaxy when there are millions more out there 

The distances between galaxies are far greater than you think. Even the Reapers may not be capable of reaching them.

You don't even see the galaxies themselves, you see the nearest one, Andromeda, where it was 2.500.000 years ago. For all we know, it might not even exist anymore.
You could say you're looking at the past.

This. The nearest galaxy to ours (the Andromeda Galaxy) is 2,500,000  light years away. Although Deathateer, I'm pretty sure the death of an  entire galaxy is quite an impossibility. Galaxies are made up of a large clusters of stars (with a massive black hole in the middle). Although  stars do die, stars are also born so it's not like a galaxy can just go  caput one day. The only thing I can imagine would be when the Andromeda Galaxy is forecasted to collide with the Milky Way in 2.5 billion years.

You can read up on this article (very interesting) about finding life beyond our planet. Such as:

[Rasmus Bjork] found, however, that even if the alien ships could hurtle through
space at a tenth of the speed of light, or 30,000km a second, - NASA's
current Cassini mission to Saturn is gliding along at 32km a second - it
would take 10 billion years, roughly half the age of the universe, to
explore a mere four percent of the galaxy.

http://www.dailygala...earth-week.html

Modifié par mjboldy, 21 mars 2010 - 06:56 .

[mjboldy]

Sorry accidental double post.

Modifié par mjboldy, 21 mars 2010 - 06:51 .

[thegreateski]

mjboldy wrote...

Dethateer wrote...

InvaderErl wrote...

Fromyou wrote...

 Why is it that everything that the reapers do is only in the Milky Way galaxy when there are millions more out there 

The distances between galaxies are far greater than you think. Even the Reapers may not be capable of reaching them.

You don't even see the galaxies themselves, you see the nearest one, Andromeda, where it was 2.500.000 years ago. For all we know, it might not even exist anymore.
You could say you're looking at the past.

This. The nearest galaxy to ours (the Andromeda Galaxy) is 2,500,000 light years away. Although Deathateer, I'm pretty sure the death of an entire galaxy is quite an impossibility. Galaxies are made up of a large clusters of stars (with a massive black hole in the middle). Although stars do die, stars are also born so it's not like a galaxy can just go caput one day. The only thing I can imagine would be when the Andromeda Galaxy is forecasted to collide with the Milky Way in 2.5 billion years.

That'll be fun.

[Dethateer]

binaryemperor wrote...

The milky way galaxy is 100,000 lightyears across. With mass relay technology you can make it through from one end to the other very quickly, the only limitation is that you have to take multiple relays. I think said limitation is only due to obstructions blocking the linear Relay paths rather than the capacity of the Relays themselves.

I think it would be possible to have a single Relay launch you through darkspace to the andromeda galaxy, which is 2 million lightyears away... the only problem is building a receiving Relay on the other side, because I believe the larger ones require a receiver... But yes, I believe the Reapers could easily figure out a way to bridge the gap between galaxies...

They all require a receiver, not only to stop the travelling object, but also to restore its mass. But the thing is that you can't really compensate for 2.5 million years of galactic drift (what TIM's team did is so ridiculous it doesn't even count), because you can't know if the galaxy will still be there by the time you reach it, and you can't exactly make course corrections.

[Dethateer]

mjboldy wrote...

This. The nearest galaxy to ours (the Andromeda Galaxy) is 2,500,000 light years away. Although Deathateer, I'm pretty sure the death of an entire galaxy is quite an impossibility. Galaxies are made up of a large clusters of stars (with a massive black hole in the middle). Although stars do die, stars are also born so it's not like a galaxy can just go caput one day. The only thing I can imagine would be when the Andromeda Galaxy is forecasted to collide with the Milky Way in 2.5 billion years.

Of course it can't simply stop existing. But you can't precisely predict where the galaxy will be if you're going by 2.5 million year-old data.

[thegreateski]

Dethateer wrote...

binaryemperor wrote...

The milky way galaxy is 100,000 lightyears across. With mass relay technology you can make it through from one end to the other very quickly, the only limitation is that you have to take multiple relays. I think said limitation is only due to obstructions blocking the linear Relay paths rather than the capacity of the Relays themselves.

I think it would be possible to have a single Relay launch you through darkspace to the andromeda galaxy, which is 2 million lightyears away... the only problem is building a receiving Relay on the other side, because I believe the larger ones require a receiver... But yes, I believe the Reapers could easily figure out a way to bridge the gap between galaxies...

They all require a receiver, not only to stop the travelling object, but also to restore its mass. But the thing is that you can't really compensate for 2.5 million years of galactic drift (what TIM's team did is so ridiculous it doesn't even count), because you can't know if the galaxy will still be there by the time you reach it, and you can't exactly make course corrections.

Well Cerberus did find the gun that shot the Reaper . . . if that thing is BOSS enough to take down a reaper in one hit then I imagine it knows the general direction the reaper flew off in

or it still had a targeting lock *gulp*

[Costin_Razvan]

The only thing I can imagine would be when the Andromeda Galaxy is forecasted to collide with the Milky Way in 2.5 billion years.

The only thing I can imagine is how retarded a person must be to believe scientists can predict events that will happen in hundreds of millions years.



Seriously? They can't even predict asteroid paths now, and you are talking a galaxy collision? What the hell?

[mjboldy]

Dethateer wrote...

mjboldy wrote...

This. The nearest galaxy to ours (the Andromeda Galaxy) is 2,500,000 light years away. Although Deathateer, I'm pretty sure the death of an entire galaxy is quite an impossibility. Galaxies are made up of a large clusters of stars (with a massive black hole in the middle). Although stars do die, stars are also born so it's not like a galaxy can just go caput one day. The only thing I can imagine would be when the Andromeda Galaxy is forecasted to collide with the Milky Way in 2.5 billion years.

Of course it can't simply stop existing. But you can't precisely predict where the galaxy will be if you're going by 2.5 million year-old data.

Nothing in astronomy is precise.

Costin_Razvan wrote...

The
only thing I can imagine would be when the Andromeda Galaxy is
forecasted to collide with the Milky Way in 2.5 billion years.

The
only thing I can imagine is how retarded a person must be to believe
scientists can predict events that will happen in hundreds of millions
years.

Seriously? They can't even predict asteroid paths now, and
you are talking a galaxy collision? What the hell?

Hmm thanks for being civil. <_<

It is difficult to predict the paths of asteroids because they are small in size and we are tracking a very small object's orbit path. An asteroid could be effected in so many ways by the gravity of planets, the sun larger asteroids whatever. Asteroids are effected by gravity because there are objects in space that are larger than it and have a more profound effect on it's path, so anytime it makes in orbit something could happen the next time it goes around that could very likely change it's estimated path of travel.

Andromeda on the other hand is not so easily affected by gravity because it's a freaking galaxy. Pulls of planets stars etc. are going to have an infinitely low effect on it's motion. It has already been confirmed to be heading towards the Milky Way at 100-140 km/sec. The 2.5 billion year is an estimate itself. Scientists have been studying the red shift and blue shift and have found quite a number of statistics on the galaxy including that it is heading for the Milky Way. Personally, I would trust years of science and research over someone screaming conspiracy theories any day.

Modifié par mjboldy, 21 mars 2010 - 07:10 .