Re: BSG+ Centauri A, B, C and Cally (was Re: Anyone else notice...)

On Apr 19, 6:28 pm, Allen <notarealemailaddr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:56:01 -0400, "KalElFan"
> <kalel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >[crossposts added]
>
> >SPOILERS here for those who haven't seen BSG ep 4-03 yet

> >>> > 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.


True, but presumably Starbuck has other sensors and analysis equipment
besides just ordinary vision. Or this information may be something
that she got through extrasensory channels, as she did her vision of
the mandala that she painted on her apartment.  Of course, it may be
*misleading* information.

BTW, the last I read it wasn't confirmed that Proxima Centauri is
gravitationally bound to A&B--not that that changes the point in this
case.