Flying Squid to Showerthoughts • 2 months agoThe 1920s was "a long time ago" and the Andromeda galaxy is "a galaxy far, far away." Maybe the original trilogy took place 100 years ago in the next galaxy over.message-square47arrow-up1128arrow-down120
arrow-up1108arrow-down1message-squareThe 1920s was "a long time ago" and the Andromeda galaxy is "a galaxy far, far away." Maybe the original trilogy took place 100 years ago in the next galaxy over.Flying Squid to Showerthoughts • 2 months agomessage-square47
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoWhat will really bake your noodle is that it takes time for light to reach us. We are seeing light that anywhere from a few minutes to a few billion years old.
minus-squareFlying SquidOPlink5•2 months agoAnd when the light from Andromeda reaches us in 2.5 million years, you’ll all see my shower thought was right.
minus-square@WrenFeatherslink4•2 months agoAnd in 2.5 million years when the light from your thought reaches the folks in Andromeda, they’ll be like… “Woah! Star Wars happened right here!”
What will really bake your noodle is that it takes time for light to reach us. We are seeing light that anywhere from a few minutes to a few billion years old.
And when the light from Andromeda reaches us in 2.5 million years, you’ll all see my shower thought was right.
And in 2.5 million years when the light from your thought reaches the folks in Andromeda, they’ll be like…
“Woah! Star Wars happened right here!”