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3/18/2013 6:19:53 AM
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inb4 the sun's not a planet
[quote]So... Are we falling towards the Traveler? or is the Traveler falling towards us?[/quote]
Our galaxy'd have to be spinning mighty fast for a relatively stationary object situated near even Alpha Lupi to be in our backyard in half a millenia. I don't even know how you're thinking that's supposed to work.
My point is that it has to have moved on its own.
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I always considered the is it falling towards us or are we falling towards it a reference to the relativistic nature of space time. Because according to general relativity depending on your reference frame both statements are correct.
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This is a good point... I didn't think of it that way.
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You got me. The sun is not a planet. I'm sorry my sleep-deprived brain is not operating at your level of always-optimal efficiency (some sarcasm intended). But thank you for pointing out my mistake. I'm saying that if the Traveler is in geosynchronous orbit above the Last City, it could be slowly falling toward it. If it traveled to us and gave us new and exciting capabilities to open the Golden Age to us, what else was it capable of? I would guess: travelling really really quickly. But my point is that the name of the star matters, not the star or itss location. Not yet, anyways.
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Edited by externalmemory: 3/18/2013 6:50:56 AMNo, I'm with you on the name, and it being a possible present/future origin for the Traveler. The falling comment implied something you didn't intend because it was intentionally vague, that's what happens. Anyway, I ssumed the Alpha Lupi ARG something is falling towards you quote is meant for us in the past, not us in the game present (our/golden age future), though maybe meant for someone in between. There's much talk of terraforming so I'm guessing this communication could be said to happen just prior to or during the human golden age. In any case, it seems like The City is the Traveler's resting place. Hence why my brain went to prior events when the traveler and/or earth would be moving relative to one another more. Re: "Orbit". What's keeping the Traveler above the city is not a geosynchronous orbit at all, it's just [i]way[/i] too close for that, it's purely some artificial force. Another reason why this idea of the earth or the traveler falling toward one or the other at that point in time seems like a dead lead; there's so little space between and it seems so stationary to an observer as to make its rate of descent negligible. And even if it were extremely slow, wouldn't people just evacuate and relocate the city as necessary to avoid a giant Katamari event? Just sayin'
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Got cha. Sorry for the crabbiness then. I would say prior. The prose seems to be describing some of the bodies as they are in our current time and some of them after the Golden Age. Re: Re: "Orbit". I get what you're saying, but the earth is still spinning and the Traveler stays above Last City, so that artificial force is what keeps the Traveler geosynchronous to it. We basically agree - just had a bit of communication error on my part. Yeah, the "falling" thing was a shot in the dark. But if the "falling" line can be applied to something in-game/story, what could it possibly be?
