HemlockGrey wrote:I always thought humans evolved seperately in the Star Wars galaxy...I mean, there are billions of galaxies, right? And billions of planets in those galaxies? It could happen...
No, the probability is so low it could never happen in a single universe. I lack the expertise to plot this out mathematically, but you probably can, and such a thing arising twice in the same universe by per chance is so low as to be completely impossible.
Just think, in order for humans to evolve exactly as they are, all the other predecessors would have to in the same sequence as well, driven by unique environmental pressures caused by biosphere niches and climate and geography which simply will not be duplicated.
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hmmmm... there are probably billions of stars that are all the same... same size same color same nucleus... why not people... there are only so many things that organics can be made from... I know that mathmatics tend to disprove these kinds of thoughts (BAD ME!!), but there is a lot math cannot explain at the same time.
havokeff wrote:hmmmm... there are probably billions of stars that are all the same... same size same color same nucleus... why not people... there are only so many things that organics can be made from... I know that mathmatics tend to disprove these kinds of thoughts (BAD ME!!), but there is a lot math cannot explain at the same time.
How do you figure that there are stars out there that are exactly the same? Stars are massively huge and complex formations, it would simpler to say that there are certainly snowflakes out there that are exactly... wait, scratch that.
IP is right, some way, somehow, SW humans have to be related to Terrans.
It's the Hyperspace Aliens theory that's been mentioned several times in the thread. It's past 3 AM here, so it's a bit too late to sit down and type it all out right now.
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DoctorPhanan wrote:Actually, I read somewhere pretty recently that time travel was possible(in theory), and I'm also pretty sure that it was related to realativity. I'll see if I can dig up the link.
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I have never been a number head, I do okay conceptually but I dont generally figure alot of these physics things out. This was not the website I was talking about earlier, but would you mind proofing it. I think that it reads okay, but alot of this stuff is over my head, so a little help here?
I really don´t care to go over this thread one more time, so I´ll just assume this hasn´t been said before:
What if the GFFA is the Milky Way in the distant future and the opening line in all the films is made by an alien storyteller in another galaxy further into the future?
That´s all I´ll ever care to say on this particular subject.
VT-16 wrote:I really don´t care to go over this thread one more time, so I´ll just assume this hasn´t been said before:
What if the GFFA is the Milky Way in the distant future and the opening line in all the films is made by an alien storyteller in another galaxy further into the future?
That´s all I´ll ever care to say on this particular subject.
Given how some people consider 5 years ago to be "A Long Time Ago" could it be that the storyteller in our times is just extremely shallow.
VT-16 wrote:What if the GFFA is the Milky Way in the distant future and the opening line in all the films is made by an alien storyteller in another galaxy further into the future?
1) The Star Wars galaxy is a different shape from the Milky Way.
2) It has two satellite dwarf galaxies.
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You're right, apparently it is still up in the air whether or not the Killiks actually constructed Centerpoint. They never said anything about building the Maw; that was a misunderstanding on my part.
Here's the passage from The Joiner King in question, courtesy of KenKenobi at TFN:
It's on pages 132-133. UnuThul begins talking about the Killik Twilight with Leia and the gang.
Raynar nodded. "It shows an arm of the Lost Nest." He still did not look away. "We remember it well."
"The Lost Nest?" Luke asked.
"Remember it?" Han gasped. "It's ancient!"
Raynar finally tore his gaze from the moss-painting.
"We remember the nest." He fixed his eyes on Leia. "When humans came to Alderaan, they called it the Castle Lands. But we knew the nest as Oroboro. Our Home."
Han shook his head in disbelief. He liked to say that all bugs were alike, but not even he had assumed that the Kind and the Killiks were actually the same. Sure, they shared the same general body shape and had the same number of limbs, but beyond that, the Kind looked like the Killiks in the painting about as much as humans looked like Aqualish. The towers, on the other hand, were another matter. In both the painting and the Yoggoy nest, they were crooked cones with distinctly banded exteriors.
Leia did not sound surprised at all. "So the Killiks didn't go extinct, as everyone supposed. They simply left Alderaan thousands of years ago."
"You seem less surprised at that than Lizil was to see a painting of Oroboro," Raynar said.
"I've had my suspicions since we arrived at Yoggoy," Leia replied smoothly. She turned back to the painting. "Archaeologists have dated the oldest of those spires to twenty-five thousand standard years."
"Correct," Raynar said. "The Celestials emptied Oroboro ten thousand generations ago-- that would be twenty thousand years, as humans measure time."
Han wanted to ask who the Celestials were-- and what Raynar meant by emptied. He also wanted to ask if a Killik generation really passed at the rate of one every two years. But he could see by the set of his wife's jaw that she was pursuing her own line of questioning.
[skip forward to after Leia is done with "her own line of questioning" and Han chimes in]
"...Why don't you tell us about these Celestials on the way out?"
"If you like." Raynar allowed himself to [be] guided into the corridor. "It was after we built Qolaraloq-- you Others call it Centerpoint Station. The Celestials were angry--"
Saba stumbled into Han's back as he stopped dumbfounded in the corridor.
"You're saying Centerpoint was built by Killiks?" Leia gasped. Finally, she sounded like something had surprised her.
Instead of answering, Raynar abruptly stopped.
Then they trail off because of Juun and Tarfang's little predicament with the Noghri.
