"Well that's a blessin', at least. Maybe they cleaned up before they left?" He doesn't sound very happy with that idea, though. He's clutching at straws.
There was something that he knew of in the universe that could just fix itself and defy the laws of physics, and they were in a lot of god damned trouble if it was here.
He watched Amos' face, the slight change in expression making him feel a little guilty. He didn't mean to point it out quite so blunty, but there it was.
"That's what makes the most sense, right? If those windows aren't a hoax, we're so far from the system that I can't even wrap my head around it. If we were a few lightyears out, most of the stars would still line up the same, but I don't recognise any of them. For the sky to look like that, we'd have to be hundreds and hundreds of light years out, if not half way across the galaxy. The only way we'd made a trip like that would be in cryo, and even then, you're talking - that's hundreds of thousands of years, and that don't make no sense."
He rubbed his forehead, brows furrowed hard as he tried to figure this out. "Now there's - there's some theories of things that could do that, could get us here. Like an Einstein-Rosen Bridge - a wormhole, they like to call it. They ain't never been proven to exist, but if they did, and one opened up under the Roci, it could have pulled us in. Moved us half way across the galaxy - or to a different galaxy entirely - in the blink of an eye. Maybe it knocked us all out, someone picked us up..."
He trailed off, then shook his head.
"But that don't make no sense either. How the hell did any of the others make it here? Some of them don't even have space travel where they're from, and far as I know it's not like wormholes could open up on a planet -- Hell, I'm making my head hurt."
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There was something that he knew of in the universe that could just fix itself and defy the laws of physics, and they were in a lot of god damned trouble if it was here.
He watched Amos' face, the slight change in expression making him feel a little guilty. He didn't mean to point it out quite so blunty, but there it was.
"That's what makes the most sense, right? If those windows aren't a hoax, we're so far from the system that I can't even wrap my head around it. If we were a few lightyears out, most of the stars would still line up the same, but I don't recognise any of them. For the sky to look like that, we'd have to be hundreds and hundreds of light years out, if not half way across the galaxy. The only way we'd made a trip like that would be in cryo, and even then, you're talking - that's hundreds of thousands of years, and that don't make no sense."
He rubbed his forehead, brows furrowed hard as he tried to figure this out. "Now there's - there's some theories of things that could do that, could get us here. Like an Einstein-Rosen Bridge - a wormhole, they like to call it. They ain't never been proven to exist, but if they did, and one opened up under the Roci, it could have pulled us in. Moved us half way across the galaxy - or to a different galaxy entirely - in the blink of an eye. Maybe it knocked us all out, someone picked us up..."
He trailed off, then shook his head.
"But that don't make no sense either. How the hell did any of the others make it here? Some of them don't even have space travel where they're from, and far as I know it's not like wormholes could open up on a planet -- Hell, I'm making my head hurt."