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  1. Re:30 cm/s by stealth_finger · · Score: 1 · on Astronomers Detect Four Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting The Nearest Sun-Like Star (ucsc.edu)

    It's battlestar galactica for an hour

    http://www.kobol.com/archives/...

  2. Re:Movie futures by westlake · · Score: 1 · on DreamWorks Picks up Neil Gaimans' Interworld
    I've been saying for a long time this is how TV should be made. Make a pilot, and put it out for the public to view.

    It isn't that easy.

    In 1978 "the Galactica bridge was estimated at $850,000.
    Tektronix donated $3 million worth of high tech computer hardware to dress up the set. Television monitors totaling $35,000 were used. The six-foot long model of the Galactica, which weighed 60 pounds, cost $50,000." Battlestar Galactica FAQ

    You have to deliver story, talent and production values up-front to stand any chance at all. Think of all the B5 sequels that sank without a trace. Cardboard sets. No-name casts. Your penny jar is a gimmick, it is not a practical way of doing business.

  3. Re:WTF is wrong with these people? by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 1 · on Will Apple Disappoint on 30th Anniversary?

    A suicide is not a light subject to be throwing it around like it's some joke...

    Yeah, it's only not having an announcement on their 30th Anniversary. It isn't something suicide-worthy like cancelling Battlestar Galactica.

    BTW, the UB version of Final Cut Studio is finally out.

  4. More likely, a conversion problem by AtariAmarok · · Score: 1 · on Robotic Nanotech Swarms on Mars... in 2034

    "What do you mean? The nanoprobes were designed to spec. I was told to make them 56 microns wide. I followed the exact Galactica specifications for microns. If you did not want me to cover Mars in robots the size of Greenland, you should not have ordered me to!"

  5. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  6. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  7. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  8. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  9. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  10. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  11. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  12. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  13. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  14. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  15. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  16. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  17. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  18. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  19. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  20. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  21. Some cool links for the Galactica fans by dark-br · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted
    Information on the Episodes

    Facts and FiguresLists, tables, and other amazingly organized data.

  22. Re:What about "why do the cylons want to kill us"? by Trevin · · Score: 1 · on New Battlestar Galactica - Worth a Series?

    I can't find the original pilot script offhand, but as I recall the cylons were originally a different race who built machines that turned on their creators. These machines then turned to the destruction of other worlds, and were at war with the human race for a millenium. A more complete background on the Cylons can be found at kobol.com.

    So the history of the Cylons changed from the original BG to the new series. I can probably accept the fact that now they were created by humans instead of Cylons. But there is still a valid question: why turn against us, then sit out and wait forty years before coming back to finish us?

  23. While you're in the mood.. by Steve+'Rim'+Jobs · · Score: 2, Interesting · on New Battlestar Galactica Premieres Monday

    Check out the Battlestar Galactica Original costume and Prop Museum.

  24. Or similar to this old gem... by jahjeremy · · Score: 1 · on Joss Whedon Is Creating a Sci-Fi Drama For Fox
    Battlestar Galactica

    I don't understand why a more cyberpunkish series set here on earth a la Neuromancer wouldn't be a better, cooler, "darker" (whatever) concept. Suppose Fox already has this , but its kind of, well, cut-rate.

  25. Re:Portman's Coustume by eclectro · · Score: 5 · on A Host Of Star Wars Bits

    Here's a picture of Cassiopa and Sheba (from Battlestar Galactica)

    Here's a picture of Athena (from Battlestar Galactica)

    Here's a picture of colonel Wilma Deering (from Buck Rogers)

    Compare the Buck Rogers one with this photo of Natalie (on the right) and this one from above.

    The similarities have not been lost on a lot of people;
    http://www.chud.com/board/ubbhtml/Forum1/HTML/0015 45.html

    IMHO - Natalie still seems much like a girl, compared to the others above that seem like women. Maybe it's because I grew up with them ;-))

    Also it seems Battlestar Galactica is making a comeback;
    http://www.kobol.com/revival/index.html

  26. Eddie Seidel Jr., R.I.P. by Brian+Kendig · · Score: 2 · on New Episodes Of Battlestar Galactica?
    If a new Battlestar Galactica series is indeed made, I hope they pay homage to Eddie Seidel, Jr., maybe by naming a Battlestar after him or something.

    Eddie was a teenage boy who was highly intelligent, very into science fiction, and generally depressed with life -- a description that could probably fit a lot of people here. Except that Eddie was way ahead of his time; he was so wrapped up in Battlestar Galactica and so unable to find anything else in life to relate to, that when the TV series was cancelled in 1979, Eddie committed suicide.

    I never knew the kid, but I've known how he felt, and my heart goes out to him and his family.

  27. Re:It's really funny for Mormons. . . by MrClear · · Score: 1 · on New Episodes Of Battlestar Galactica?

    I had heard that rumor, too, but didn't know it was true until I saw a particular episode years after the series had been cancelled. I guess I was too young to catch it the first time around.

    Remember that big, glowing, crystal ship that swallowed up Starbuck or Apollo's fighter from time to time? In one episode, Starbuck asked one of the glowy beings in the crystal ship who they were. The being responded with something like "as you are now we once were, and as we are now you may become" - almost a verbatim quote from Church President Lorenzo Snow about the LDS belief that we humans have the potential to be like God. That clinched it for me. After that, I started seeing a lot of LDS doctrinal references.

    There's an interesting note on the topic in the kobol.com FAQ here.

  28. I hope it isn't as much of a failure this time by Heidi+Wall · · Score: 3 · on New Episodes Of Battlestar Galactica?
    When Battlestar Galactica came out in the late 70's it was tipped as the next huge SF sensation. It was produced as a kneejerk reaction to Star Trek showing on the other networks, but was only designed to be a couple of episodes at first. Unfortunately, half way through filing the studio bosses decided to greatly increase the length of the series and commissioned a whole load of extra episodes - without increasing the budget. The result was a bit of a mess, and BG was rightly panned by the critics at the time, and the audience viewing digures, although large for the first week, tailed off. In the end it was rescheduled to a different hour. It was one of the most expensive flops of the era.

    Many things about it were awful - hairstyles, acting, plot. The bad guys, in the form of the nefarious Silon, were among the worst in TV history, utterly laughably bad.

    This means that it now makes an excellent Sunday afternoons viewing. The discriminating fan of super cheesy 1970's SF series will not be dissappointed by a viewing of Battlestar Galactica. The touching scenes involving Jane Seymours death and her childs adoption of a furry proto-Aibo are particulary amusing. And the attempted and very forced insertion of Greek Mythology throughout the series is funny too.

    If you feel like going on a nostalgia trip, kobol.com is an excellent site featuring a hell of a lot of BG nostalgia. More than I can handle, thats for sure.

    I just hope that this version isn't as bad as the last, though that should be easy.
    --
    Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,

  29. Re:Battlestar Galactica?????? by Kurt_Rambone · · Score: 1 · on AMD's Secrets Revealed

    erm, battlestar galactica first aired in 1978 actually. check the FAQ bozo.

  30. Re:Oh, it's all coming back to me now... by TheCrayfish · · Score: 1 · on 1970s Star Wars Christmas Special Reviewed

    And let us not forget...

    Battlestar Galactica
    The Formula: Star Wars space hype + Bonanza + Dukes of Hazzard + Lost In Space + way-cool Cylons + Star Trek Voyager
    The Skinny: Airing from 1978-80, starring Richard Hatch as Tom Wopat, and featuring Lorne Greene as Commander Adama. The plot: In the seventh millenium of time, a tribe of humanoids engaged in a terrifying conflict against a race of machines. The humans lost. Now, led by their last surviving warship, the mighty Battlestar Galactica, a handful of survivors moves slowly across the heavens in search of their ancestral brothers, a tribe of humans known through ancient records to be located somewhere on a distant shining planet, a planet called Earth.

  31. Re:Oh, it's all coming back to me now... by TheCrayfish · · Score: 1 · on 1970s Star Wars Christmas Special Reviewed

    And let us not forget...

    Battlestar Galactica
    The Formula: Star Wars space hype + Bonanza + Dukes of Hazzard + Lost In Space + way-cool Cylons + Star Trek Voyager
    The Skinny: Airing from 1978-80, starring Richard Hatch as Tom Wopat, and featuring Lorne Greene as Commander Adama. The plot: In the seventh millenium of time, a tribe of humanoids engaged in a terrifying conflict against a race of machines. The humans lost. Now, led by their last surviving warship, the mighty Battlestar Galactica, a handful of survivors moves slowly across the heavens in search of their ancestral brothers, a tribe of humans known through ancient records to be located somewhere on a distant shining planet, a planet called Earth.