It could be brought down to probably 10 or even 5 pages, but that is not the point. One thread, were every person+his mother+his dog can speculate, share their emotions, ask questions and everything else that is discussed in this thread, doesn't hurt anybody. It's not like threads are popping up every minute which would destroy the forum, most of the things get said here.
Sure, everything that could be said probably already has been said within this thread, but that is not the point. If we would completly remove all the posts and only dense them down to the ones, that only give acutal information, we wouldn't need a forum, only a guy, who posts news on the front page (which acutally exists btw.)
The point of this thread and of this forum ist to speculate and share the thoughts, that everybody has - those discussions are the life of the forum, if you can say so.
Believe me, when actual new information comes out, it will get a new thread and this one will get burried fast + we are not the moderators, they know when to lock and when not.
P.S.: If you would lock this thread, new threads would be made every minute with the same questions, so this would hurt the forum much more, than only this one thread.