Speculation about the planet. Who made it, will they return.

[reddevil18]

Yes. Caine/Kaine/however you spell it was nuts. And this is amply covered in at least one other thread.

[jelgate]

Just because people have posed as gods who is to say thier isn't one out there? At least that would be Caine's defense

[Pharaoh Atem]

thoughts?

god did it. and nobody on this forum will change my mind

[major davis]

If this happened to me I would totally still believe God did it. Just because there have been a ton of powerful imposters of God's doesn't mean there is no true God.

[Coronach]

Note, that the OP never said anything about there not being a God or gods. His only point is that why did the characters (and why would so many posters, apparently) jump to the conclusion that a god did it given the experiences of the past.

If anything, people should be extremely skeptical that a god is directly involved in this particular instance, especially given the alien spire on the planet.

This says nothing about there being a god or not, it's just strange that it's always the #1 go-to answer for a mysterious occurrence.

[reddevil18]

Note, that the OP never said anything about there not being a God or gods. His only point is that why did the characters (and why would so many posters, apparently) jump to the conclusion that a god did it given the experiences of the past.

If anything, people should be extremely skeptical that a god is directly involved in this particular instance, especially given the alien spire on the planet.

This says nothing about there being a god or not, it's just strange that it's always the #1 go-to answer for a mysterious occurrence.

+1

[jelgate]

+1

-5

[Coronach]

-5

>>9,000!!!!

[reddevil18]

-5

Bible thumper!

[jelgate]

>>9,000!!!!

9001

[stargator87]

Note, that the OP never said anything about there not being a God or gods. His only point is that why did the characters (and why would so many posters, apparently) jump to the conclusion that a god did it given the experiences of the past.

If anything, people should be extremely skeptical that a god is directly involved in this particular instance, especially given the alien spire on the planet.

This says nothing about there being a god or not, it's just strange that it's always the #1 go-to answer for a mysterious occurrence.

I think that it is human nature to look at semi-miraculous phenomena and jump to the "higher power" conclusion. If you think about it, it's much easier and more comforting to think that some great omniscient being is watching us and guiding us as we make our way through our lives, versus looking through the lens of the scientific method, or in the case if SGU, past experience. Caine and some of those who took his view were understandably ready to believe that some greater power was guiding their path, considering the staggering danger and uncertainty they face on a day-to-day basis on Destiny. Caine's counterpoint in Faith, Dr. Sideburns, took the "everything is random" approach, which I'm not sure is the right way to look at it either. It's entirely possible, speculatively speaking, that a time traveling/time viewing species with advanced technology placed that planet in Destiny's path, but it's also entirely possible that the glitch in Destiny's navigation and the fact that it brought them to the planet is completely random. If you apply the scientific method, neither possibility can be dis-proven, even though current knowledge supports Dr. Sideburns theory. I guess my point is that even though both sides have their appeal, there is no way, scientific or otherwise, to make a decision based on certainty. Therefore, any course of action by Destiny's crew would be based on, or lack of, Faith.

[K^2]

Anybody else thinks that the system wasn't built, but rather transported to location? Using hyperdrive technique similar to one used by SG-1 team to make an asteroid pass through Earth.

The planet appears to be old. It's not a ball of molten rock, as pointed out in the episode. Perhaps, it was orbiting a dying star. G-type stars tend to become red giants late in life. So the only way to save the planet would have been to take it to another star. We can probably assume that replacement was chosen as young G2 because the original was also a G2.

Why not simply take planet to a star? Because a young G2 star will have a ton of asteroids around it. The aliens wanted to protect a planet, so they dragged the young G2 star to a complete empty point in space, then towed the planet to it.

Within SG-verse, this sounds like something that even the ancients might have been able to pull off if they put their mind to it. So this would still be a super-advanced civilization, but nowhere near as god-like as creation of a star and planet from scratch would have made them.

[hiro]

The Magratheans...

...duh

agree!!! sure they did =D

You know who built the planet?

No one. It was the Titan. Ya know, from Titan A.E. There, I've just out-geeked everyone.

nice !! planet bob !!

Maybe they used time dilation technology in an existing stellar nursery to speed up a natural process. So maybe the Asgard would eventually be able to do this too.

Spoiler:

the Asgard are dead but we'll keep Tor in our hearts

[wingsabre]

Maybe it's the same aliens that invented the Touchstone. It was never specified who invented, and if they were wanderers. The Obelisk in itself could be some weather control device to terraform the planet, and at the same time could be some alien communication/monitoring system.

[skarwolf]

Pierson's Puppeteers.

regards,
G.

If it was Pierson's Puppeteers they would've known about the Destiny. In fact they were probably behind influencing the Ori to go a separate path to challenge the Ancients and slow them down from advancing further and thus becoming a threat to the Pierson's Puppeteers