"Allen" <notarealemailaddress@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:56:01 -0400, "KalElFan"
> <kalelfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>[crossposts added]
>>
>>SPOILERS here for those who haven't seen BSG ep 4-03 yet
>>
>>"upchuck721" <upchuck721@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> On Apr 19, 12:52 pm, "KalElFan" <kalel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> "upchuck721" <upchuck...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> > She's looking for a trinary star cluster with a gas giant. Earth
has
>>>> > but one lonely star. I think she is looking for the cylon home
world.
>>>> > That is my theory anyways. It kinda goes with the whole "do not
>>>> > follow
>>>> > Kara; she will lead the human race to it's destruction" thing that
>>>> > the
>>>> > hybrid said at the end of Razor.
>>>>
>>>> I assumed the "trinary star" system was a reference to the closest
star
>>>> system to our Sun. It's commonly called Alpha Centauri but there are
>>>> actually three stars, Centauri A, B and C (the latter called Proxima
>>>> Centauri). The ringed gas giant Starbuck mentioned I took to mean
>>>> Saturn.
>>>
>>>If you take another look at Kara's hallucinations of that gas giant
>>>with the comet...
>>
>>I've seen the one from last night's episode. Did we see that in ep 2?
>>
>>> ... you will clearly see 2 stars right next to each other.
>>
>>Yes, but the "trinary star" description obviously means there are 3.
>>Check the scale drawing with the Sun and the three Centauri stars
>>halfway down this page:
>>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri
>>
>>Proxima is actually the smallest, a red dwarf or "flare" star that
>>shoots out what Starbuck may have described as a comet.
>>
>>It could also be that she was describing Proxima Centauri as
>>the gas giant, but I distinctly recall her saying it was ringed. So
>>again I took her to mean that she passed a ringed gas giant
>>planet, and then on her way further out saw this trinary star
>>system that fits Alpha Centauri A, B and C (Proxima Centauri).
>
> Read the article a little more, partiularly the first two sentences
> under the "Characteristics" section.
>
> There's no way that Starbuck could have seen Proxima Centauri from our
> solar system with her own eyes even if she was flying out past Saturn.
> It's too dim. Even if you were near Alpha Centauri A&B, you wouldn't
> be able to distinguish Proxima from the vast majority of stars. In
> fact, Alpha Centauri A & B orbit so close together that they look like
> a single star from anywhere in our own solar system.
She was obviously engaging in interstellar travel here, and we don't
know that it was anything like the FTL jumps that Galactica does.
So that's what I was thinking, that she saw the Centauri system not
from our solar system, but in the course of her travel back. Maybe
she was at sub-light, or accelerating towards light speed, until she
got out past the Centauri system. Maybe she intentionally did that
to look for markers that would make it easier for her to find her
way back, rather than just having to find an obscure star in a
galactic haystack.
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