October 24, 2006
Air Jump
For those of you (and you know who you are) who have given me private (and public) grief about being a huge Battlestar Galactica fan, watch this scene from last week's show. I expect YouTube to pull it any second, so it may be gone by the time you read this. Keep in mind that the Galactica is supposed to be enormous, like a super-sized aircraft carrier built to stay in space it's whole life.
And if that didn't do it for you, here's what happened after the Galactica jumped back into orbit and was beat to hell from falling 100,000 feet or so doing something she was never designed to do.
Posted by Matthew at October 24, 2006 06:36 PM
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Matt,
I would never give you any grief about being a fan of Science Fiction shows. Of the 10 series I follow half are Sci-Fi-ish and they include BSG. Of the four new shows out of the 10 the percentage is the same.
And the jump into and out of the atmosphere was absolutely awesome.
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at October 24, 2006 10:27 PM
Can you tell me the material Galactica used to resist the 3000 degree plasma during atmospheric re-entry? NASA could use it, I'm sure!
Posted by: Matt at October 25, 2006 10:22 AM
They do a good job on the show of being vague about technology. Basically, all anyone knows about space travel is that short jumps at speeds faster than light can be made.
The Galactica survived a direct nuke hit in the mini-series, so whatever she's made of, we're not using it for anything. I like to call it unobtainium.
Posted by: Matt_D at October 25, 2006 11:24 AM
Uhhhh... Were we supposed to watch the video?
;-)
Christy (not a science fiction fan)
Posted by: Christy at October 26, 2006 08:04 PM