Which direction should we be looking?

[qingdom]

I've always wondered where we should be pointing our telescopes while looking up the night sky.

Has there been any indication where and which galaxy(-ies) Destiny has been at / to since the arrival of the Icarus Base crew?

And how powerful of a telescope must we have on Earth to take a look or magnify to to say, "Hey, they're somewhere in this ball of light cluster here. :oint::"

Given that they are an astronomical distance away, has there been any reference to how far they are to the Pegasus Galaxy or even perhaps the Ori Galaxy?

[morbosfist]

Destiny is so far away that no telescope would ever be able to see even the galaxy it is in. It'd appear as a dot of light, at best.

[BadOnion]

well, if you want to take that the shot of the last galaxy was the "Sombrero Galaxy", it would be in the direction of Virgo

[kellx]

In Air when they are looking at the map of destiny's path, you clearly sea at least 7 galaxies before the camera pans away, but each time the path hits a galaxy there is a beep. There was at least 10 to 15 more beeps after the camera pans away. I think its safe to say the distance is beyond comprehension. But my question is if destiny did pass through the milky way and Pegasus, where are all the Destiny style gates. Destiny was launched way before the Ancients went to Pegasus. If they went there because they got info from a seeder ship or destiny itself. But where are all the gates?

[Shadow_7]

But where are all the gates?

They only come with a three year warranty. After which they disolve into a primordial ooze. They only work with Destiny because it's in proximity of fairly new gates and the ships that make them. Or I could be wrong.

[P-90_177]

In Air when they are looking at the map of destiny's path, you clearly sea at least 7 galaxies before the camera pans away, but each time the path hits a galaxy there is a beep. There was at least 10 to 15 more beeps after the camera pans away. I think its safe to say the distance is beyond comprehension. But my question is if destiny did pass through the milky way and Pegasus, where are all the Destiny style gates. Destiny was launched way before the Ancients went to Pegasus. If they went there because they got info from a seeder ship or destiny itself. But where are all the gates?

Since the Milky Way and Pegasus gates are more advanced or seem to be, why would you stick to them? Better to replace them with newer models.

[garhkal]

Just like operating systems.. Upgrades are needed to keep with the times and needs.

[Skiznot]

They don't ever mention where the galaxies are in the show. I think someone may have matched the galaxies depicted in Sabotage to some Nasa/Hubble images but it isn't cannon. It would be cool if they threw us Astronomy nuts a bone though. Also would be cool to know how far away they are. Billions of light years is pretty general and there's a big difference between 3 billion and 40 billion.

[Cold Fuzz]

Since Air Part 1 I've been thinking that Destiny is somewhere beyond the Sloan Great Wall.

[escyos]

That way!

No one could possibly know all we do know is that Destiny headed in the direction of Pegasus dwarf. matching the previous galaxy to the sombrero galaxy is useless.

[Joben]

Since the speed of light is the speed of light, wouldn't that mean that if we could see Destiny, it would have been a ridiculous amount of time ago and the ship/crew would all be dead?

[The Destiny]

Well... our own solar system ( counting the oortcloud as it's extent. The oortcloud is a big cloud of rocks like we have close to the planets, only ridiculously huge compared to our solarsystem: ) might be one or two light years big, and a distance like that, 20 or 30 galaxies far? Billions upon billions of light years. By the time the light reaches us, destiny might very well be turned to dust ( assuming it wasn't destroyed by aliens or natural space phenomenons )

[zainea13]

You couldn't ever see desitny... Just like, even if there are ships flying around in the milky way right now. And we even got pictures of them! We would just see it as a small shimmer, if anything at all... the planets we "find" are because the gravitational changes in the star they look at, and from that can determine size and orbit... not because they actually see them

[zainea13]

Since the speed of light is the speed of light, wouldn't that mean that if we could see Destiny, it would have been a ridiculous amount of time ago and the ship/crew would all be dead?

why would they be dead? no... if destiny launched one million years ago, and travelled at the speed of light, we would see it present day... but destiny travelled farther than that... So say the first day destiny travelled one million years... and today is one million years later... we would see destiny where it was when it stopped that day ... tomorrow... but in reality destiny is billions of light years away...

[blueray]

i wish they would give us an idea of how far away they are. it would be cool if they were suddenly either in the peagus galaxy or the ori galaxy.

[The Destiny]

i wish they would give us an idea of how far away they are. it would be cool if they were suddenly either in the peagus galaxy or the ori galaxy.

Pegasus was the first galaxy destiny went through, as seen on the star map in Air. We don't know howfar the ori galaxy is though? so it "could be possible". I think destiny is a lot further away than the ori galaxy is though.

[Phenom]

I thought this thread was a serious question....thought I had to burst the OP's bubble about SG not being real.

[qingdom]

You could burst my bubble all you want, however, all stories have to use reference points from somewhere.

In fact, by the end of Battle Star Galactica, where the viewers thought we stemmed from where they called Earth was not our Earth, but Earth II evidently was. Not to say that's real, but curious enough that it could have been a possibility.

And considering the premise of the show wrapped around the western zodiac mythos, it's pretty much like early SG-1 where they used egyptian mythos to kickstart the story.

The labeling of the planets nomenclature is real. What's to say the writers' decision choice of planetary and galaxy travel to known named designations is not?

Although Science Fiction, you cannot deny the curiousity that some other aliens may already be how we're defining the ancients as we speak. And these are the documented uncovering. Taken with a grain of salt, of course.

And the beyond our sky is the Stargate Worlds' reference point.

[BRiDGELiFE]

Since Air Part 1 I've been thinking that Destiny is somewhere beyond the Sloan Great Wall.

The Sloan Great Wall of Galaxies is approx. one billion light-years from Earth, while I think Destiny is probably 500Million-800Million Light Years out, this would probably be a pretty close estimate (Cold Fuzz's thought)...... Although I doubt were even heading in that direction (although we could be). It might make sense though that more Structures (formations of Galaxies) would be located more closer to the Big-Bang Origin...... So maybe you right about the directions, plus the Sloan wall is pretty massive @ 1.37 billion light years in length. But just like the 200million light years off from my guess (500-800million) and your guess 1 Billion being not that big of a difference (200mil light years is a long way when thinking about it), and Were talking about the Universe and ITS HUGE, So chances are even though the Sloan Wall is massive were probably not heading in that direction, But Who knows whats going on, I wish BW/RC would shed more light on these type of things, but then they'd have to be held accountable and abide by them......

[Pharaoh Atem]

Destiny is so far away that no telescope would ever be able to see even the galaxy it is in. It'd appear as a dot of light, at best.

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