quote:Originally posted by Reverend: why do half the planets have British derived names?
Alot of U.S. stuff is based on British stuff even now. A bunch of cities and even states are named after British territories. New York comes to mind.
New York is named after the Duke, not the place.
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: Found a flaw in the chronology: it doesn't take account for relativistic effects during the migration.
Perhaps the dates are subjective?
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quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: Alot of U.S. stuff is based on British stuff even now. A bunch of cities and even states are named after British territories. New York comes to mind.
quote:Originally posted by Reverend: why do half the planets have British derived names?
Alot of U.S. stuff is based on British stuff even now. A bunch of cities and even states are named after British territories. New York comes to mind.
New York is named after the Duke, not the place.
Caldwell Texas (home of our former President) is named after one of my ancestors.
One day I will raise an army and drive the Bush's off my ancesteral lands...
The planetary names might derive from the firstin-system colonists- mostly British, followed by refugees from an alliance here or a remaining soverign nation there.
Did they ever say weither anyone still lived on Earth?
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quote:Did they ever say weither anyone still lived on Earth?
Not in the show... The impression I got was that anyone left behind wasn't going to make a sustainable population and probably died out.
One clever bit from the system analysis that makes sense in hindsight: the reason for the exodus was global warming and overpopulation, but once they decided to evacuate the planet, they stopped worrying about creating pollution and ran amok building the spaceships, accelerating the whole problem. Kinda creepy.
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I'd believe it. Actually sounds somewhat similar to the 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' scenario. Most who can leave have and most of those that are left are left to rot with not real effort to repair, or even combat the damage done to the environment. Also lends credence as to how Blue Sun became so powerful, when they were building the arks the elected governments were probably already just figureheads with the megacorps actually running the show.
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