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Old 10-17-2005, 07:17 PM
Rev_Pee_Kitty Rev_Pee_Kitty is offline
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Re: Maps of the 'verse?

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Originally Posted by florin
No, the movie specifically says it is in one system. And quadrant makes perfect sense. Imagine the system and a 2D circle. Divid it into four equal parts, those are the quadrants.
And why would someone use such a useless concept? Planets orbit the sun, which means they move around and around and will never be in the same quadrant, or in the same relation to each other. That's sort of like mapping a city based on which clouds happen to be overhead which neighborhood at the moment.

Ah, well. I guess it was just "technobabble" -- "Quadrant" sounded really kewl there, so they used it. I can forgive 'em for it.
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