It’s so mind numbingly large that light, which would encircle the equator 7 times in a second, takes 8 fucking minutes to get to us from the sun. And 4 years to get to us from the nearest star.
If we shrunk down the universe so that the sun was about the size of a grain of sand, the nearest star would be 10,000 miles away and there would be nothing but emptiness between us. A few scattered atoms floating about, so rare and distant that hitting one would be less likely than winning the lottery twice in a row while being struck by lightning.
This was the thought experiment of why ships aren’t constantly crossing paths in Star Trek. It’s not like you and 3 people running around in a Walmart parking lot. It’s you and only 3 other people driving around in the entire country.
The fact that they cross as often as they DO is insane.
In Voyager 7 finds a Star Fleet ship at something like 60,000 light years away, in an episode that would have been great if not for one unfortunate guest appearance.
It’s so mind numbingly large that light, which would encircle the equator 7 times in a second, takes 8 fucking minutes to get to us from the sun. And 4 years to get to us from the nearest star.
If we shrunk down the universe so that the sun was about the size of a grain of sand, the nearest star would be 10,000 miles away and there would be nothing but emptiness between us. A few scattered atoms floating about, so rare and distant that hitting one would be less likely than winning the lottery twice in a row while being struck by lightning.
This was the thought experiment of why ships aren’t constantly crossing paths in Star Trek. It’s not like you and 3 people running around in a Walmart parking lot. It’s you and only 3 other people driving around in the entire country.
The fact that they cross as often as they DO is insane.
In Voyager 7 finds a Star Fleet ship at something like 60,000 light years away, in an episode that would have been great if not for one unfortunate guest appearance.
Who was the unfortunate guest appearance?
Andy Dick. He was the EMH mk2. He just gives a really bad performance.
Oh I thought you were referring to the episode Equinox as the ship 7 finds.