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More Bugs among the stars.
18 years ago
Well, we've had Cancer and Scorpio for some time as far as constellations, but there's also the Antennae Galaxies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antennae_Galaxies
Illustrating what happens when a pair of galaxies 'splash' through each other, slowly congealing to create a supergalaxy.
The long thin tails though - like gas trailing off from space.
If you were from a world on one of the tails, your nightsky view would probably be pretty spectacular - but a society that got FTL in time might be moved to outpace the escape velocity of their strand, colonize the core galaxies ASAP, or suffer (eventually - ie. millions of years), an early version of the Heath Death of the universe.
Even without FTL, the survival of a species would eventually consider slower than light generation 'lifeboats' to get back toward the warmer clusters of stars. In the long-view of survival of a species, no cost becomes too high for its societies. There'd be many, many stories that could be told of such struggles, drama resulting from such an endeavor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antennae_Galaxies
Illustrating what happens when a pair of galaxies 'splash' through each other, slowly congealing to create a supergalaxy.
The long thin tails though - like gas trailing off from space.
If you were from a world on one of the tails, your nightsky view would probably be pretty spectacular - but a society that got FTL in time might be moved to outpace the escape velocity of their strand, colonize the core galaxies ASAP, or suffer (eventually - ie. millions of years), an early version of the Heath Death of the universe.
Even without FTL, the survival of a species would eventually consider slower than light generation 'lifeboats' to get back toward the warmer clusters of stars. In the long-view of survival of a species, no cost becomes too high for its societies. There'd be many, many stories that could be told of such struggles, drama resulting from such an endeavor.
On a diying planet, vegetals evolved in such a way they were chimically launching lifeboats into space (giant seeds containing other seeds), and propulsed them thanks to a laser beam emitted from the plants remaining on the planet - but all that without any conscience or anything, just by evolution...