And now a trip to the refrigerator. (This always happens to me.) Naturally, this is loaded with spoilers, so it's below the fold.

The Milky Way Galaxy contains between 200 and 400 billion stars. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a lot smaller, but it still contains something like 10 billions stars. And the Small Magellanic Cloud is probably another 5 billion.

That's a lot of stars. And I'm supposed to believe that this alien race, looking for a new planet on which to live, could only find one planet in that entire place which was suitable for their purposes, and that only if they changed it substantially?

I'm also supposed to believe that they embarked on this project because their own planet was in peril of destruction, but had enough time to search that entire area?

Furthermore, with the kind of stardrive they've developed, if they can jump 160,000 light years to visit us, then you'd think they could also jump 3 million light years and visit M33, with another maybe 100 million stars, as well as visiting Andromeda, which contains fully one trillion stars and is about 2.5 million light years away.

Out of one and a half trillion stars, ours was the only one that had a suitable planet?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Engineer's Disease at 04:41 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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