Random. And I spouted it at Palmetto earlier, and then realized I need to think of other things. (er, spoilers, yo) If nu!Earth is our Earth, how does that work with the new constellations that don't match shit like Capricorn and Libra and etc?
We know that none of the planets are all THAT far away from each other. It's only 2000 light years from old!Earth to the Colonies (thanks, Sam!), and the Fleet didn't get very far from dead!Earth after they found it. I vaguely recall some stuff over at the bsg science blog talking about this, since there are programs that can show what the sky would look like from other solar systems. I remember after Orion kept popping up in the background in 4.0, people were saying that the RTF was REALLY close to Earth then, because Orion does change significantly only a little ways distant, but IIRC, the zodiac doesn't actually change too much. I believe someone actually found a possible location for Old!Earth's star. In any case, others have looked at the question in exhaustive scientific detail, with pictures and everything if you really want to know. :)
And also - 150,000 years ago, there were no Great Lakes. Those were a product of the ice age and are less than 20,000 years old. Same with the Black Sea, which was a much smaller, inland fresh water lake until the rising sea level broke through the Bosporus 7000 years ago. And also, we shouldn't think too much about the shape of the continents or the sea level, or whether the English Channel had formed yet, or whether Beringia still connected Alaska to Siberia. ;)
(I know, we're nit picking reality here from Ron's grand vison.)
Hey, I'm still stuck on how people who landed in Africa and spread out from there had deities that didn't really come into play until thousands of years later, in ancient Greece, instead of going with Inanna and Dumuzi and all those names instead.
Mostly, I try not to think about it, roll my eyes, and move on.
Ideas from the Colonials trickled down through the collective subconscious, which is also why we have ties and cellphones. Some may hate that explanation, but at least there is one.
It's actually not as far fetched in the case of the deities, since a lot of Indo-European cultures had the same types of deities in their pantheons. Like, Aphrodite becomes various sex goddesses and Zeus becomes various sky gods, and later, in Greece, they take on their original names again due to the collective subconscious.
According to the science advisor, Old Earth didn't have the same constellations, just some close ones. Gaeta was overeager with "visible constellations are a match", emphasis on "visible". The Tomb showed New Earth, not Old Earth (which, as the science advisor says, makes it a mystery who put the starmap there). There's a unfortunately cut line from He That Believeth In Me where Laura says that only four of the star patterns Kara's Viper recorded match the Tomb and Kara asks if she wants a big neon sign that says Earth.
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It's SF, after all. Have to do some handwaving, there...
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(I know, we're nit picking reality here from Ron's grand vison.)
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Mostly, I try not to think about it, roll my eyes, and move on.
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It's actually not as far fetched in the case of the deities, since a lot of Indo-European cultures had the same types of deities in their pantheons. Like, Aphrodite becomes various sex goddesses and Zeus becomes various sky gods, and later, in Greece, they take on their original names again due to the collective subconscious.
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