Let's simplify things a bit:

Reproduction = Population
Population = Cities
Cities = Technology

Multiple this by 194,000 years, and you have a very large amount of popultion that is potentially very advanced. I was refuting the claim that there was very little popultion for the first 194,000 years. The only way this could be if there was no reproduction, no sexuality, ect. Then again, perhaps I'm missing something and evolution states that basic genitilia wasn't developed until 6-10 thousand years ago. In that case, the low population for 194,000 years would work out... sorta.

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Almost right. It's center is even 2.5 million light years away, or about 1.5x10^19 miles.



Yes, but my question hasn't been answered. Where do you come up with the galaxy being 2.5 million light years away? Was the number just pulled up out of a hat? After looking through the wikipedia link, it seems they have distances for galaxies well beyond even this one.