The BoRG are 13 billion light years away! Hope is not lost!
I found this information while I was browsing the astronomy pages on Wikipedia (more common than my geek factor can really tolerate, but still) and I came across a list (see below) of the most distant astronomical objects (notice object 8 – with a red frame?).
As far as I can tell from the list, the “BoRG-58” (shown with red frame) is somewhere between 13 and 13.025 Gly away (that’s billions of light years). I’ve understood the “z” stands for red shift, however, part from that, I’m just guessing here.
Anyhow, we need not fear! There are no direct risk of getting across the BoRG in our lifetime… assimilation has been cancelled… the BoRG are so far away it’s silly… I mean travelling at warp 9.9 it would take them 13.4 million years to get here… But since they travel at transwarp speeds I can only assume they’d be here far sooner… (Frantic Googling did not yield a good calculation for transwarp speeds… I’m guessing the federation doesn’t know them – transwarp speeds that is – and I’d have to guess… further that it would have to be BoRG transwarp speeds as well… any transwarp speed would not do here!)
Ah well… life is full of uncertainty… Perhaps we’ll be assimilated in time for the next ice age?
But wait… BoRG-58?! Where the hell are the other 57 BoRGs? Shit! DAmn! CraP!
Update from my doctor:
- They are called “BORG” not “BoRG”
- They do not exist
- You always get like this when you live life with your imagination dialled all the way up to “too vivid to handle”!
- Eat your meds and call me in the morning…
Update 2:
Mom, this is a joke! Calm down!
I know the BORG is not really for real… At least I think they’re not really for real… did anyone came across any BORG? I may have… I especially remember one girlfriend…
OK, never mind that…