Distance from Sag A in Real Life?

[Artistik]

So apparently we've learned a little more about the Milky Way, and among the new facts is we're roughly 1900 light years CLOSER to Sag A than previously believed. Will the game adjust accordingly? LOL

Earth is 2,000 light years closer to supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy than we thought | CNN

A new map of the Milky Way has put Earth 2,000 light years closer to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. This revised estimate is the result of over 15 years of observations by the Japanese radio astronomy project VERA.

www.cnn.com

 

[Andro]

Short answer: no.

Long answer: Who would've thought it would be so difficult to determine the size of a vast space that you're inside of?

 

[Florenus]

So apparently we've learned a little more about the Milky Way, and among the new facts is we're roughly 1900 light years CLOSER to Sag A than previously believed. Will the game adjust accordingly? LOL

No, because the game is 1000 years in the future and by then we're going to be 2000 Light Years further again.

 

[Biff Stryker]

No, because the game is 1000 years in the future and by then we're going to be 2000 Light Years further again.

Dude

 

[Amanojaku]

Dude

It's Mega Maid! She's gone from suck to blow!

 

[varonica]

So apparently we've learned a little more about the Milky Way, and among the new facts is we're roughly 1900 light years CLOSER to Sag A than previously believed. Will the game adjust accordingly? LOL

Earth is 2,000 light years closer to supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy than we thought | CNN

A new map of the Milky Way has put Earth 2,000 light years closer to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. This revised estimate is the result of over 15 years of observations by the Japanese radio astronomy project VERA.

www.cnn.com

Not unless you want updates to the position of stuff in the galaxy happening about once every 5 minutes, astronomy isn't a static thing, for instance;

Using a sophisticated statistical model that calculated the speed of the Milky Way's most distant stars, the University of Edinburgh team discovered how the LMC warped our galaxy's motion. The study, published in Nature Astronomy, was funded by UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

The researchers found that the enormous attraction of the LMC's dark matter halo is pulling and twisting the Milky Way disc at 32 km/s or 115,200 kilometers per hour towards the constellation Pegasus.

So our entire idea of the shape of the galaxy may be incorrect to some degree, these discoveries happen on an almost daily basis, maybe in the future, EDII, we can see some of these new discoveries incorporated into the new galaxy model, should be interesting!

 

[Lightspeed]

I'm sure the Devs will have it changed by next week

 

[WR3ND]

No, because the game is 1000 years in the future and by then we're going to be 2000 Light Years further again.

Just for the sake of it, I'll take one for the team and be that guy to say that that's technically impossible.

Anyway, carry on.

 

[varonica]

Just for the sake of it, I'll take one for the team and be that guy to say that that's technically impossible.

Anyway, carry on.

Well done, I didn't have the heart to deal with that one myself, the fact that stellar motion over 1,000 years won't move the earth and sun a single light year further or closer relative to Sag A is a given.

 

[Vasious]

Well done, I didn't have the heart to deal with that one myself, the fact that stellar motion over 1,000 years won't move the earth and sun a single light year further or closer relative to Sag A is a given.

What about... the expansion of space time... accelerated due to the use of engines that push through to Witchspace over hundreds of years?

Aka a witch did it

 

[Florenus]

Just for the sake of it, I'll take one for the team and be that guy to say that that's technically impossible.

Anyway, carry on.

Well done, I didn't have the heart to deal with that one myself, the fact that stellar motion over 1,000 years won't move the earth and sun a single light year further or closer relative to Sag A is a given.

Maybe that's the lack of emoticon that's making it harder to get, but I'm not 100% serious there.
I'm half serious.
Just consider how much our knowledge of the universe changed in last 1000 years and how far SagA was in the year 1020 according to scholars.
(if someone's going to point out to me that they didn't know about it in the middle ages, i'm going to flip out)

It was 2000 ly further yesterday and you were perfectly ok with it being the correct distance. It might be proved wrong tomorrow.

 

[WR3ND]

Good to see I didn't break your stride. Technicalities can be such a nuisance sometimes.

 

[varonica]

Maybe that's the lack of emoticon that's making it harder to get, but I'm not 100% serious there.
I'm half serious.
Just consider how much our knowledge of the universe changed in last 1000 years and how far SagA was in the year 1020 according to scholars.
(if someone's going to point out to me that they didn't know about it in the middle ages, i'm going to flip out)

It was 2000 ly further yesterday and you were perfectly ok with it being the correct distance. It might be proved wrong tomorrow.

I was assuming from your post that you were actually expecting the sun to physically move that far in 2,000 years, not that by the time we actually have spaceships and can finally stretch out our giant tape measure we may find Sag A to be further or closer away than we expected.

 

[Florenus]

I was assuming from your post that you were actually expecting the sun to physically move that far in 2,000 years, not that by the time we actually have spaceships and can finally stretch out our giant tape measure we may find Sag A to be further or closer away than we expected.

I know.
I forget to put emoticons sometimes, or I actually think some things are funnier when told with a stright face. But I also tend to forget that sarcasm doesn't translate well through internet.
My bad

 

[clouddancer]

This is real life.