"a Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far Away."

[Darth Drew]

<font style='width=80%; filter:glow(color=black)'>How long ago was: a "long time ago"? and how far is "far away?"</font>

[Javen]

Uh as far as your imagination, maby?

[James]

I remember a poll on the official SW site, I voted for "I don't care" or something like that...

but my guess is that it happened thousand years or so ago, in a galaxy millions of lightyears away from here

[Queen 'Onna]

It is as far away as you want it to be and as long ago as you want it to be. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif

[Darth Drew]

<font style='width=80%; filter:glow(color=black)'>Thats a lot of help "Onna.</font>

[Queen 'Onna]

Glad to be of help :sarcasm:

[Justin]

It doesn't make a difference, and George Lucas doesn't care.

He said that it says "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away," so he could make whatever he wants happen, and not have to worry about the continuity of the real world.

[Luvinna.]

This was already brought up in another thread somewhere. Don't remember where though. ???

I believe the answer to that question is all relative. Depends on your point of view, in other words. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif

How long is "a long time"? To me, 25 years is a long time. That's a quarter of a century! But if your talking in scientific terms, and the history of the earth, then 1 million years is a short time.

Same goes for "far, far away". If you're on foot, then 100 miles is quite a way to go. Again, if you're talking in scientific terms, then 1 parsec (or 3.27 lightyears) isn't that far (the Milky Way Galaxy is approximately 100,000 lightyears across).

The way I see it, it was long ago enough that Artoo and Threepio can show up in some Egyptian heiroglyphics in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, and it's close enough that ET could travel here to good ol' Terra to have an adventure. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif

[Queen 'Onna]

To be honest I don't care.

[Darth Drew]

<font style='width=80%; filter:glow(color=black)'>I say they are in Andromeda.</font>

[JediBendu]

Our closest galaxy - Sagittarius Dwarf - 179 000 light years away - so the light we're seeing from it now is from 179 000 years ago, basically when humans started migrating out of Africa.
Galaxies futher away are millions of years older - the most distant are older than our own solar system.
The Star Wars galaxy is very far away indeed. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif

[James]

i don't believe that the galaxy ever really existed...

I don't think GL intended it to be one that sits alongside all the other galaxies