In your mind, is FFVII closer to home?

[BG-57]

Ah, okay.

[MKusanagi]

XD I love the astronomy disscussion here!

The death of a star can take many different paths. A neutron star tends to burn out most often, becoming a black dwarf. A black hole results when a supergiant can no longer fight the massive gravitational pull it's created, because there's nothing left to combust. When this happens, the star rapidly collapses and inertia takes over, resulting in a massive 'dip' in the time/space continum. This is a black hole. For the Sol to go nova, though, it would have to expand until the inferior planets are INSIDE the sun itself. Then it sheds it's outer layers, leaving behind the white-hot core. The physics are a little complicated, but eventually, it will explode. The outer layers shed by the star is what creates beautiful planetary nebulae, as seen from other stars.

Back on topic.... If forced to choose, it'd seem more like an alternate reality. Indeed, can we even be sure that the reality we live in right now is truly real? Our senses can be easily decieved. Our logic is influenced by our senses, thus we cannot be sure of anything. Perhaps we are all but a dream of God.

Arg, you all just got a dose of my Astronomy class and my Classical Literature and Thought class. Lord, I hate school sometimes.

I'm a physics major . But damn! I thought our sun was bitchin'! However, I love that fact that there is now some serious evidence pointing to alternate realities. It gives the "what if" argument a whole new life...
Thing is that we now are discovering that atoms and molecules will disappear! Not just move to another place! They will outright disappear! If that isn't enough proof of the Time-space continuum I dunno what is!

[Bolivar]

XD I love the astronomy disscussion here!

The death of a star can take many different paths. A neutron star tends to burn out most often, becoming a black dwarf. A black hole results when a supergiant can no longer fight the massive gravitational pull it's created, because there's nothing left to combust. When this happens, the star rapidly collapses and inertia takes over, resulting in a massive 'dip' in the time/space continum. This is a black hole. For the Sol to go nova, though, it would have to expand until the inferior planets are INSIDE the sun itself. Then it sheds it's outer layers, leaving behind the white-hot core. The physics are a little complicated, but eventually, it will explode. The outer layers shed by the star is what creates beautiful planetary nebulae, as seen from other stars.

Back on topic.... If forced to choose, it'd seem more like an alternate reality. Indeed, can we even be sure that the reality we live in right now is truly real? Our senses can be easily decieved. Our logic is influenced by our senses, thus we cannot be sure of anything. Perhaps we are all but a dream of God.

Arg, you all just got a dose of my Astronomy class and my Classical Literature and Thought class. Lord, I hate school sometimes.

I'm a physics major . But damn! I thought our sun was bitchin'! However, I love that fact that there is now some serious evidence pointing to alternate realities. It gives the "what if" argument a whole new life...
Thing is that we now are discovering that atoms and molecules will disappear! Not just move to another place! They will outright disappear! If that isn't enough proof of the Time-space continuum I dunno what is!

that's crazy

[Vincent, Thunder God]

I always thought FF 7's Mako Reactors were thinly veiled Nuclear Reactors (threatening humanity, providing electricity at great cost, etc.), and that FF 7 was criticizing America's commercialism in general, which was part of why I liked it. Yes, it's closer to home, and I would say it's more in the present than in the future. Or if it's in the future, it'd have to be the near-future.

[NGU]

Thinking on it now I would have to say that it is like earth. Simply the fact that they like us are taken away from the planets resources and turning it into a wasteland. I also could be hoping its alot like earth and if so... can I be Cloud?