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Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Ranger33 on July 11, 2014, 10:00:06 PM
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I'm re-reading the series (3rd time) and I couldn't help but stop when I read this odd line from Ax:
"But still, I was about a billion miles from my home world"
Using the power of google I learned that Pluto is aprox. 3.6 billion miles away!!
And the giant Saturn is only 1.2 billion miles away!
The strangest part of all of this is the sun is about 1 billion miles away too! So according to Ax we are as close to the Sun as we are to the Andalite home world!
Just a small error i noticed but annoyed me none the less ;)
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I'm sure he meant to say lightyears. ;D
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Either that or it was just an exaggeration.
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I'm betting an Andalite mile is different from a human mile :P
Honestly, that's all I've got.
The strangest part of all of this is the sun is about 1 billion miles away too! So according to Ax we are as close to the Sun as we are to the Andalite home world!
93 million miles is the average Earth-to-sun distance. Saturn is more than ten times as far away.
I'm sure he meant to say lightyears. ;D
Haha. The entire Milky Way is only about 100,000 light years across. The Andromeda galaxy is roughly 2.5 million light years away. 1 billion is... like, several-galactic-superclusters-away levels of far. Almost too far to bother thinking about... though, honestly, do we ever hear that the Andalite planet is within our galaxy? How does Z-space travel work, exactly?
Sorry, astronomy nerd >.<
Just a small error i noticed but annoyed me none the less ;)
Nah, there are KASU's littered throughout the series. Don't let them annoy you. They're part of its charm. Haha ^_^
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Doesn't Ax say how far away the Andalite home world is at one point? ...I want to say #5 but don't quote me on that because I'm too lazy to look. <.<
But yeah. My assumption is he wasn't really trying to be precise there so much as trying to say "it's really far away."
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I'm sure he meant to say lightyears. ;D
Haha. The entire Milky Way is only about 100,000 light years across. The Andromeda galaxy is roughly 2.5 million light years away. 1 billion is... like, several-galactic-superclusters-away levels of far. Almost too far to bother thinking about... though, honestly, do we ever hear that the Andalite planet is within our galaxy? How does Z-space travel work, exactly?
So a billion miles is way too close, and a billion lightyears is way too far. I guess we'll just chalk that up to a KASU. Then again, even if it's not a billion lightyears away, it may as well feel like a billion to him.
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KASU lol I guess that's what we can chalk it up to:) thanks for the help and clarification.
You may now demorph
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Sorry. I became a nothlit a long time ago. ;)
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I'm going to go with "Ax doesn't know exactly how far a mile is, only that it is considered a very long distance to humans" as my explanation. Not a KASU. Just Ax's unfamiliarity with human measurements this early on in the series.
I mean, come on. If he'd wanted to use an actual scientifically accurate distance, any fool knows you'd have to at least put it in metric. :P
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Ax is an American. He doesn't need no un-American measurement system. Yes he's American, because he saved America. Who wouldn't give him the purple heart and call him a proper patriot?
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'Murka...!
Let's face it, the Andalites are the alien versions of Americans! Hork-Bajir are alien versions of Hodor. No idea what the Taxxons are like =P
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Taxxons are communists. obviously.
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Taxxons? The obsessive over-eaters? Um, it doesn't get much more American than that. :P
Obviously, Andalites are from Canada. They are Canadese.
. . . In seriousness, though, I'd probably put them somewhere between Japan (they have a similar concept of honor, I think), and America (the arrogance and self-righteousness).
Ax is an American. He doesn't need no un-American measurement system.
*sigh* (http://theoatmeal.com/pl/senior_year/science)
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Well, Ax is pretty much an Andalite teenager, so he was probably just exaggerating, like kids do.
My favourite KASU, though, is in Animorphs 18: The Decision, when Ax claims a Seagull has talons. Although, perhaps this is remedied in Michael Grant's Gone: due to the FAYZ mutating everything that lives inside the bubble, Astrid finds a Seagull that has grown, you guessed it, TALONS. So, either Applegrant know very little about Seagull biology, or they're predicting an inevitable evolution in seafowl.
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speaking of errors, 93 million miles is less than 1/10 of a billion miles. earth is nowhere near a billion miles from the sun. a billion is a thousand millions. and 93 is not about 1000.
Btw your post is called error i noticed in "boom" 8
However, you are correct. there is no star within a billion miles of our sun. applegate, for those of you that have not noticed yet, is, in fact, an idiot. I do not base this on tiny little insignificant science errors. you should be warned as soon as possible. if you are collecting the series, stop. now. just stop. its to late for me. but you can all save yourselves. do. not. finish. the. series.
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I really don't think you should call KA an idiot around here. She doesn't alays do her research, and she obviously didn't have a lot of the series planned out before she started, but I believe she is a good writer when she's motivated.
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applegate, for those of you that have not noticed yet, is, in fact, an idiot. I do not base this on tiny little insignificant science errors. you should be warned as soon as possible. if you are collecting the series, stop. now. just stop. its to late for me. but you can all save yourselves. do. not. finish. the. series.
Not the best way to make friends here, sir.
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However, you are correct. there is no star within a billion miles of our sun. applegate, for those of you that have not noticed yet, is, in fact, an idiot. I do not base this on tiny little insignificant science errors. you should be warned as soon as possible. if you are collecting the series, stop. now. just stop. its to late for me. but you can all save yourselves. do. not. finish. the. series.
Haha. You do understand that you're posting this on an Animorphs forum, don't you? Many of the people here finished the series more than a decade ago, and yet, we're still here, celebrating it, in spite of its inconsistencies :P
Also: disagreeing with the decisions of the author of our favorite series is no reason to call her an idiot. Heck, disagreeing with anybody shouldn't be cause for namecalling. All that can do is get people upset with you :P
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Thanks for pointing out my math inconsistencies! Most definitely not my strong suit! Jdorsey I may not know math but I do know people and I imagine these are the LAST people you want to say that to so please try to refrain from making comments against the author here;). Yah I guess we can just chalk it up to a kid being a kid. @duck, duck, goose as a lover of the gone and Animorph books let me just say:
WOW! What an astute observation and odd connection but according to birds.com seagulls do indeed have talons but they are tiny and webbed...???
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Well damn...I guess I've been ****ing about this for no reason :P Thanks for clarifying, and welcome to RAF :)
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Nah not for no reason you had a well reasoned and good idea and you pursued it! That is the sign not just of a reader but an evaluator someone who isn't taking anything at face value ;)
Thanks!
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On a similar note in #26 it says the Iskoort planet is 500 million light years from earth and implies it's in this galaxy when 500 million light years would be well outside this supercluster.
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Seagulls have talons? Who knew!
According to Ax in Book 5 (Thanks Steph, I wasn't sure on the exact book so you saved me a lot of time and effort), The Andalite Home World is about 82 Light Years from Earth.
Clearly Ax knows the actual distance. So maybe he was just doing what I do whenever I talk about long distances. Everything is always a zillion miles away for me. Maybe he was just throwing a big number out there. Saying you're a billion miles from home does sound more impressive than saying you're eighty-two light years from home. Whether it actually is farther mathematically or not. Unfortunately that doesn't really solve the Iskroot thingy. Pry just another KASU
And Aluminator is right Jdorsey. Name calling is uncalled for and you're preaching to the choir anyways.
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I'm re-reading the series (3rd time) and I couldn't help but stop when I read this odd line from Ax:
"But still, I was about a billion miles from my home world"
Using the power of google I learned that Pluto is aprox. 3.6 billion miles away!!
And the giant Saturn is only 1.2 billion miles away!
The strangest part of all of this is the sun is about 1 billion miles away too! So according to Ax we are as close to the Sun as we are to the Andalite home world!
Just a small error i noticed but annoyed me none the less ;)
I thought that Earth only averaged 93 million miles away from its Sun!
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I'm sure he meant to say lightyears. ;D
If the Andalite political unit is 1 billion light years from Earth, then so are the Yeerks, so why are the Yeerks invading Earth?
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Taxxons? The obsessive over-eaters? Um, it doesn't get much more American than that. :P
Obviously, Andalites are from Canada. They are Canadese.
. . . In seriousness, though, I'd probably put them somewhere between Japan (they have a similar concept of honor, I think), and America (the arrogance and self-righteousness).
Ax is an American. He doesn't need no un-American measurement system.
*sigh* (http://theoatmeal.com/pl/senior_year/science)
Which Terran nation are the Yeerks?
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Nazi Germany?
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I'm sure he meant to say lightyears. ;D
If the Andalite political unit is 1 billion light years from Earth, then so are the Yeerks, so why are the Yeerks invading Earth?
A need for hosts, the fact that we don't have interstellar travel, and our reproduction rate is really high.
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I'm sure he meant to say lightyears. ;D
If the Andalite political unit is 1 billion light years from Earth, then so are the Yeerks, so why are the Yeerks invading Earth?
A need for hosts, the fact that we don't have interstellar travel, and our reproduction rate is really high.
But shouldn't the Yeerks be able to find plenty of host species closer than 1 billion light years away from their home planet?
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I'm sure he meant to say lightyears. ;D
If the Andalite political unit is 1 billion light years from Earth, then so are the Yeerks, so why are the Yeerks invading Earth?
A need for hosts, the fact that we don't have interstellar travel, and our reproduction rate is really high.
In Visser, were labled as a class 5 speices
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I'm sure he meant to say lightyears. ;D
If the Andalite political unit is 1 billion light years from Earth, then so are the Yeerks, so why are the Yeerks invading Earth?
A need for hosts, the fact that we don't have interstellar travel, and our reproduction rate is really high.
In Visser, were labled as a class 5 speices
I'm sure he meant to say lightyears. ;D
If the Andalite political unit is 1 billion light years from Earth, then so are the Yeerks, so why are the Yeerks invading Earth?
A need for hosts, the fact that we don't have interstellar travel, and our reproduction rate is really high.
But shouldn't the Yeerks be able to find plenty of host species closer than 1 billion light years away from their home planet?
Apparently not. Humans are class 5. Meaning they are plentiful while still having low enough technology that they can't fight blade and pool ships head on. There really aren't a huge number of inhabited planets in the galaxy in the first place, much less one populated by a species like us.
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Apparently not. Humans are class 5. Meaning they are plentiful while still having low enough technology that they can't fight blade and pool ships head on. There really aren't a huge number of inhabited planets in the galaxy in the first place, much less one populated by a species like us.
That is one of things that quaflies for class 5.
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I'm sure he meant to say lightyears. ;D
If the Andalite political unit is 1 billion light years from Earth, then so are the Yeerks, so why are the Yeerks invading Earth?
A need for hosts, the fact that we don't have interstellar travel, and our reproduction rate is really high.
In Visser, were labled as a class 5 speices
How did the Yeerks travel 1 billion light years since the creation of the Yeerk Empire in 1966?
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Z-Space.