The Novians could be in stasis, but I think they mentioned generational ships, which means people living and working on them, having families, etc.
Anyway, just because the Novians are traveling normally through space, still doesn't say how fast they are traveling. And since every object in space is in motion, you try to calculate where something is when the starting point and ending point are in constant motion, and you don't know how fast something is traveling.
To give you an idea of what you're up against, your objective is to find a specific bird that left a cargo ship in the middle of the Atlantic and is currently heading to a spot where it expects a cargo ship in the pacific to be when it gets there. Think you can do it?
Eli said it: Space is big, really freakin' big. After 10 years, the distance between an object traveling 500 kph, and one traveling 1,000 kph, is going to be incredibly huge. And as I said, we have no idea how fast the Novian ships are traveling. However, it is still possible we might end up detecting them if we follow the likely path, but that would possibly be an episode in the non-existent season 3.
Edit: to answer the garbage TV thing, it is a symptom of the markets. Reality TV, Wrestling, and other such shows, are incredibly cheap to produce. They may get lower ratings, but overall profit is higher. And in any segment of the population, you will have have the population of below average intelligence, and thus entertained by such things.
The solution to the problem is to convince everyone you know to stop watching reality TV, Wrestling and other such shows. Tell them that, the more they watch, the less likely they will get more intelligent plots. For all my dislike of things in SGU, at least it was trying to be a cut above.
Anyway, just because the Novians are traveling normally through space, still doesn't say how fast they are traveling. And since every object in space is in motion, you try to calculate where something is when the starting point and ending point are in constant motion, and you don't know how fast something is traveling.
To give you an idea of what you're up against, your objective is to find a specific bird that left a cargo ship in the middle of the Atlantic and is currently heading to a spot where it expects a cargo ship in the pacific to be when it gets there. Think you can do it?
Eli said it: Space is big, really freakin' big. After 10 years, the distance between an object traveling 500 kph, and one traveling 1,000 kph, is going to be incredibly huge. And as I said, we have no idea how fast the Novian ships are traveling. However, it is still possible we might end up detecting them if we follow the likely path, but that would possibly be an episode in the non-existent season 3.
Edit: to answer the garbage TV thing, it is a symptom of the markets. Reality TV, Wrestling, and other such shows, are incredibly cheap to produce. They may get lower ratings, but overall profit is higher. And in any segment of the population, you will have have the population of below average intelligence, and thus entertained by such things.
The solution to the problem is to convince everyone you know to stop watching reality TV, Wrestling and other such shows. Tell them that, the more they watch, the less likely they will get more intelligent plots. For all my dislike of things in SGU, at least it was trying to be a cut above.
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