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The Day the Moon Blew Up

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Re: The Day the Moon Blew Up

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mirimir wrote: post #108
vidarh wrote: post #75

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I don't think that description is right. They never fall into the black hole - they jump away. Unless I'm badly misremembering, it's pretty clear that the Battlestar Galactica crew's ancestors "earth" is a different planet. At least the characters believe it is, and the Baltar and Six that appears in the epilogue also talks about it as a different planet and a new cycle. While the theme of cyclical history is recurri…

Maybe so. But the city in the epilogue does look very 21st century. That might just have reflected budgetary constraints, however. As in Caprica.

That's because the epilogue takes place on our Earth in the 21st century. But the "real" Earth they found earlier and left again was not. In-universe "our" Earth is named Earth because they named it as a reference to "their" Earth (which had been reduced to rubble).

Re: The Day the Moon Blew Up

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Post by mirimir »

vidarh wrote: post #111
mirimir wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe so. But the city in the epilogue does look very 21st century. That might just have reflected budgetary constraints, however. As in Caprica.

That's because the epilogue takes place on our Earth in the 21st century. But the "real" Earth they found earlier and left again was not. In-universe "our" Earth is named Earth because they named it as a reference to "their" Earth (which had been reduced to rubble).

OK, I need to go back and watch the last few episodes. I know that they had found a destroyed Earth. But then they went to that Cylon base, in orbit around a black hole. And then they fell in, as they were fighting their way out. And then they ended up back on the Earth, ~50 thousand years ago. Or at least, that's what my wife and I remember :)

Re: The Day the Moon Blew Up

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Post by obbybreeden »

vessenes wrote: post #106
bostonpete wrote: post #13

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> it seems like every group of humans that went out on their own survived in some way The survival of both the other two groups seemed pretty far fetched to me.

Just wait for Mars.. :) I had the same reaction at first. But, then I was thinking about dogs; dogs evolve really quickly under pressure. If that's not a high pressure evolution event, I don't know what is. I'm curious to read more about everyone in any event. Here's hoping.

SPOILERSSSSSSS

It's not even about evolution. Imagine if the 7 eves weren't playing some weird genetic metagame, but instead had one over-arching problem to solve.

The main dilemma of the Pingers was how to survive underwater, and they had as much technology (if not more, there's more submarines in existence than ISS modules). They also had tons of food (think of how many whales died, and how long whale fall ecosystems last). And a nice natural shield consisting of the ocean.

If the Aidans could bring back the Neanderthal, then the Pingers probably started their experiments early and often.

Re: The Day the Moon Blew Up

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Post by obbybreeden »

rtkwe wrote: post #103
knodi123 wrote: post #95

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but isn't it all poisoned by those pesky radioactive flea particles? Or was that problem only insurmountable due to the limited resources of the comet expedition?

The fleas caused a lot of problems even during the Great Ride but I imagine once they were in the Cleft they'd be able to figure out a way to process it to remove the contamination. it wasn't covered in the book though that I remember.

There was a passage where they had rigged the robots to pick out debris from the ice.

I think they would eventually be able to pick out the hotter bits out of the ice as well.

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