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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Stingray: [QB] I'm not Sol System, nor a solar system nor any form of celestial object (baring those theories where we're the products of supernovae) Take it like this: Imagine you're a two dimensional person. Your universe is a square that you live on, and as far as you know, the entire universe consists soley of two dimensional objects. If all you know is two dimensions, then you cannot possibly concieve of a third dimension or any three dimensional object. If some radical revolutionary were to try and describe, say a sphere to you, you simply would not be able to imagine anything but circles. That is not to say that I believe that the Borg extend into the 5th dimension (or subspace or whatever). That's not the point. The point is, as individualistic humans, we simply cannot adequately visualize the organizational relationship. We can however, take indivualistic slices. <takes a deep breath> You can't describe a sphere to a two dimensional person. But you can somewhat explain it to them by describing it as a collection of circles. If a sphere were to pass through the square top to bottom (that a 2D person lived on), that person would see a small circle appear out of nowhere, get larger and then smaller before finally dissapearing again. He can't picture the sphere in its entirety, but he can see the 2D slices of it. So to carry the analogy, we can picture the individualistic slices (a drone, the Queen) b/c we are individualistic creatures. But we are simply incapable of picturing the collective whole. Yikes. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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