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Battlestar Galactica Hosted At the UN

Posted by timothy on from the bizarro-world-doesn't-quite-begin dept.

TheDopp writes "The United Nations hosted the cast and crew of Battlestar Galactica Tuesday evening in New York. Clips of the show were shown as discussion points during the event, touching on the morality of Suicide Bombers in war, Abortion and the use of torture on enemies of the state. At one point during the event an attendee mentions 'the "Old Man" launched into a passionate speech about casting off the idea of race as a cultural determinant, and said we were one race, the human race. His voice echoed throughout the chamber growing louder until — I kid you not — he was yelling, "So Say We All," and the crowd answered right back. Hell, even I yelled it, I was in the fraking United Nations with Adama, the gods themselves could not have stopped this moment.' The full video of the event is located on the UN website."

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  1. Video by Imagix · · Score: 5, Informative

    RealMedia? People still use RealMedia?

    1. Re:Video by marcansoft · · Score: 4, Informative

      It's a stupid playlist. Try opening the file as text, copying the first line, and playing it with mplayer:
      mplayer rtsp://157.150.195.57:554/ondemand/specialevents/2009/se090317pm.rm?cloakport=80,554,7070

      The quality is substantially inferior to YouTube though.

  2. YOUTUBE version by DeadDecoy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thankfully youtube saves us all: BSG at UN

  3. Re:Bastards made piece with the Cylons by Etrias · · Score: 2, Informative

    You prick. Couldn't have at least had a spoiler warning on your title? I'm less bitter at Ron Moore and very bitter toward you.

    That goes for the mod who bumped up your post to "interesting" as well. Frakking idiots.

  4. Re:/me shakes head by JWSmythe · · Score: 5, Informative

        Well, it wasn't quite that. Watch the video. It's 100 students and a few members of the UN listening to a couple members of the BSG cast.

        They were simply using the building, which added the illusion of authority to the event. If it had happened in any other venue, it wouldn't have been news.

        It does give the impression that they were addressing the UN General Assembly, which simply wasn't true.

        The event was more of a photo op.

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  5. Re:More news... by geekoid · · Score: 3, Informative

    huh, good thing that first kiss didn't turn out to be a blow job. THAT would have been awkward later on.

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  6. Re:This is disturbing by the_raptor · · Score: 2, Informative

    Only the UN security council really does anything that involves military interventions. And this wasn't the general assembly let alone the security council.

    And actually the main job of the UN is to dick around and make it look like international law and treaties aren't made in shady backroom deals.

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