Courtesy of aunt Wiki:
“…in an e-mail response send to Heeb magazine, Ramis said, “I think the 10-year estimate is too short. It takes at least 10 years to get good at anything, and allotting for the down time and misguided years he spent, it had to be more like 30 or 40 years.”
Regardless of whether it was ten, thirty or forty, that’s still several millennia short of eighty one thousand (1450×56).
But he not only got good at singing and playing, but became a different person, through a cycle of offing himself to learning how to help others and all the details of how to help them–yeah, likely centuries at a minimum?
When I first heard that line on BSG, I was sure I had heard it before, and now I think I know where. I’d swear that was a line taken verbatim from the Time Prophet in Lexx, as she peered into the Future Past.
But then it’s such a classic time travel line, it probably exists in every story that discusses it. And I get the same confusion every time around…
Depends on how long it took from them being born and made into the Chimera and up to the point where Mayahuel tried to destroy the Calendar Machine. This could also be a few thousand years. Someone said on an earlier strips comment that it was made 8000 years ago. With them only having relived 1450 years, that gives us another 6550 years added to the 81,200, totaling in 87,750 years, give or take. Don’t know if the 8000 is correct though
Phix and Jin are that old, because they don’t reset at the end of the calendar. And there may be others. But anyone who gets reset “loses” all of the 1450 years each time.
At what point in all the looping did Brandi write the book. I could not be before the attempt to fix the calendar machine or she wouldn’t know what to write. I could not be after the repair attempt failed because she wouldn’t remember what happened.
Even if I assume there is a lag between the failure and the temporal drop back and Brandi writes very fast the result shouldn’t be available this early in the active loop unless Phix is cheating.
Brandi would have written it in a previous timeline/s leading up to the attempt. It would be her research and hypotheses on the subject. It apparently didn’t work out as she had hoped, either because the hypotheses are not quite right, the ideas couldn’t be implemented for whatever reason (not the proper tools, not the cooperation of key people), or because simply fixing the machine isn’t enough to stop the loop.
We finally have a firm timeline for the loop.
I’d been guessing at 12,000, which I think is when Jin and the golems were created… wait…
Jin has been ageless since the Calendar machine was first activated, as was her mother…
So the Calendar machine was already reset once since the first time, in the 6th century. Starting this loop?
And I had a hang-up over repeating the 5th grade?
Yay, me. I skipped the fifth grade.
Almost as long as Groundhog Day is supposed to have cycled February 2nd.
Courtesy of aunt Wiki:
“…in an e-mail response send to Heeb magazine, Ramis said, “I think the 10-year estimate is too short. It takes at least 10 years to get good at anything, and allotting for the down time and misguided years he spent, it had to be more like 30 or 40 years.”
Regardless of whether it was ten, thirty or forty, that’s still several millennia short of eighty one thousand (1450×56).
In the original script, Groundhog Day looped for 10000 years. I just found that out recently myself (the script is online, maybe it wasn’t in 2011).
But he not only got good at singing and playing, but became a different person, through a cycle of offing himself to learning how to help others and all the details of how to help them–yeah, likely centuries at a minimum?
that would give anyone a BSoD
55 BSoD if she found out each time
All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again. Tee Hee.
…so say we all?
So say we all.
So say we all!
Seyla
The Wheel of Time turns…
When I first heard that line on BSG, I was sure I had heard it before, and now I think I know where. I’d swear that was a line taken verbatim from the Time Prophet in Lexx, as she peered into the Future Past.
But then it’s such a classic time travel line, it probably exists in every story that discusses it. And I get the same confusion every time around…
That makes the gals approximately 81,200 years old.
Give or take a few hundred years.
Depends on how long it took from them being born and made into the Chimera and up to the point where Mayahuel tried to destroy the Calendar Machine. This could also be a few thousand years. Someone said on an earlier strips comment that it was made 8000 years ago. With them only having relived 1450 years, that gives us another 6550 years added to the 81,200, totaling in 87,750 years, give or take. Don’t know if the 8000 is correct though
Phix and Jin are that old, because they don’t reset at the end of the calendar. And there may be others. But anyone who gets reset “loses” all of the 1450 years each time.
At what point in all the looping did Brandi write the book. I could not be before the attempt to fix the calendar machine or she wouldn’t know what to write. I could not be after the repair attempt failed because she wouldn’t remember what happened.
Even if I assume there is a lag between the failure and the temporal drop back and Brandi writes very fast the result shouldn’t be available this early in the active loop unless Phix is cheating.
Brandi would have written it in a previous timeline/s leading up to the attempt. It would be her research and hypotheses on the subject. It apparently didn’t work out as she had hoped, either because the hypotheses are not quite right, the ideas couldn’t be implemented for whatever reason (not the proper tools, not the cooperation of key people), or because simply fixing the machine isn’t enough to stop the loop.
We finally have a firm timeline for the loop.
I’d been guessing at 12,000, which I think is when Jin and the golems were created… wait…
Jin has been ageless since the Calendar machine was first activated, as was her mother…
So the Calendar machine was already reset once since the first time, in the 6th century. Starting this loop?
…Man this is a complicated comic.
Jinn and her mother were turned Into goloms BEFORE the machine was made. They were already ageless when it was started.
Hmmm. So, if the loop started 1450 years before 2008, give or take, that means the loop started in 558 CE.
557: Avars arrive in N. Caucasas.
559: Belisarius defeats Hunnic armies outside Constantinople.