The commentator Rand : Licensed Eccentric
posts on 11/6/2006 11:34:26 PM
I've been thinking about something. In the episode where the Pegasus' new Commander jumps into a Cylon ambush, the battlestar survives NUCLEAR BOMBS going off against the hull. Then on the episode where the Pegasus is destroyed she is done in by considerably less firepower. Also, since I assume the baseships are at least as sturdy as a battlestar, how could the Pegasus destroy one by just ramming it and another with a piece of debris? The one thing that I actually do find more interesting about gino than the original series is the fact that the new Cylons are not all powerful. Apparently, they only have a few baseships rather than the thousands prowling the galaxies in the REAL Galactica. Xena also mentioned that they had almost drained their resources trying to hold onto New Caprica. Another also, if the Cylons caught the Colonials off guard when they landed on New Caprica, and had centurions and human turncoats keeping an eye on the Colonials, how did the Colonials dig all these pits to hide weapons in or the huge tunnel they used as their base of operations? Take Care.
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The commentator commentarian
posts on 11/5/2006 9:40:19 AM
ok the shows sciene is just soo bad ...they have ftl , but use machineguns , their ships can take direct hits from nukes but notice mention of the glowing hullof the radiated galactica.. also the whole jump in the atmosphere ..ahh lets see you tkae a ship and move it to light speed ina an atmospre can you siad destroyed ship from friction.
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JohnnyD
posts on 11/4/2006 9:54:52 PM
The cylon fighters had ftl drives as Starbuck used one to go back to Caprica to get the arrow of Athena.
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The commentator Rand : Licensed Eccentric
posts on 11/4/2006 9:44:48 PM
I'm not sure, but I don't think the vipers have ftl capability. Anyway, like you said, it would be impossible to dogfight at that speed or lock onto a target traveling that fast anyway. Take Care.
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The commentator commentarian
posts on 11/4/2006 8:41:17 PM
ok this is an easy one withthe speeds thats a ship would be traveling at in space ..the need for using electronic sighting is much the same as our present days pilots use electronics to lock onto a enemy..I have problems with Gino use of machine guns and missiles in space...the inertia weaponms fire would cause would wreck havok on naviagation ..also the Galactica flack screens is alil sillly since their pilots have to fly back into that screen to land ...aahh crash.... Why do they use bullets if they can reach ftl flight ?
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The commentator Rand : Licensed Eccentric
posts on 11/2/2006 11:44:21 AM
Chief, another thing I don't understand is why the Cylons didn't use the same virus they used to shut down the Fleet on the Pegasus once she reappeared. Shouldn't both she and her newer vipers have been vulnerable? Take care.
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chief
posts on 11/2/2006 6:23:01 AM
Since Adama was against 'modern' technology which was vulnerable to Cylon attack, his Vipers were older which might explain why no HUD. However, I don't remember if they showed the MarkVII's pilots from Galactica or Pegasus looking down at their screens.
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JohnnyD
posts on 10/28/2006 7:39:15 PM
Who do you contact about the poor quality of this board? One post a day per thread and thats if you're lucky.
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The commentator Rand : Licensed Eccentric
posts on 10/28/2006 12:49:34 PM
Ken, you're absolutely right. I believe the F-4 Phantom didn't even have a cannon when it first came out, depending entirely on its missiles for defense. And then in Viet Nam they had to go up against the much smaller and more manuverable Russian made Migs in dogfights. Unfortunately, the Phantom hadn't been designed for dogfighting and the Migs, having only guns, had to get in close to fire, much too close for the Phantom pilots to launch their missiles, so a .20 cannon was added. But that was forty years ago, and that technology is primitive compared to today's. Today, an American pilot can shoot a plane down and never even see it. So why risk a dogfight? I'm sure they still happen, but it's rare. And all I'm saying is that the new Colonials, with a weapons technology far superior to ours in present day America, should almost never have to engage in close up combat. And they still can't see what's behind them. Take Care...
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The commentator Ken Burke
posts on 10/28/2006 9:39:11 AM
As far as the dogfights are concerned, during the early days of the Viet Nam war the American Air Force generals thought they would not need to teach the pilots dogfights, that long range missiles would do the trick. Big mistake - the North Vietnam airforce was very capable of dodging the missiles and dogfighting. The end result was emphasis again being placed on dogfighting, and the school to teach dogfighting to pilots depicted in the Tom Cruise "Top Gun" school. Peace.
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The commentator Rand : Licensed Eccentric
posts on 10/28/2006 12:41:59 AM
Yea, the board acts up sometimes. Usually when someone posts something I'm dying to reply about. Personally, I blame Ron Moore. Take Care...
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The commentator Dan the Man
posts on 10/27/2006 8:15:45 AM
I di dnot disappear, this frakking board nevr lets you post more than one message in a blue moon. Plus there is that annoying pop-up everytime I log in. You can never contact the adminstrators. Are they that inept, or is it really becaude of the liberal conspiracy to isolate us.
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The commentator Rand : Licensed Eccentric
posts on 10/27/2006 1:19:42 AM
I know I've already said this at least twice before, but if the new series were really realistic there wouldn't be any dogfights between vipers and the Cylons. The new Colonials' technology is obviously far more advanced than ours is today, and yet American pilots today might spend their entire career and never get within a hundred miles of the enemies they shoot down. If I'm not mistaken the F-14 Tomcat, which was recently retired from carrier service, had a missile system, called Phoenix, which could lock onto and fire at six different targets at once up to a hundred miles away. And all the new vipers have is bullets for close up combat? I admit that all I know about this stuff is what little I've gleaned from the Military Channel, but I don't believe any sane fighter pilot would willingly go into combat in a ship in which he couldn't turn around to see who or what was behind him because of the engines. The same goes for the x-wings and tie fighters in Star Wars. Take Care...
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The commentator Porthos, Proud American
posts on 10/26/2006 1:16:01 PM
Are the posters names dissapearing for anyone else? Man those pop-ups are really messing things up around here.
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The commentator Rand : Licensed Eccentric
posts on 10/26/2006 12:03:54 PM
Brothers and Sisters, I believe Ron Moore himself is hiding among the true believers. Mr. Widget the Penguin, my right hand bird, has been secretly investigating each and every member of the group and has narrowed the field down to several likely suspects: Fab-G, aka Dan The Man, could the Dan be the D in Ron D. Moore? Isn't it strange how he vanished around the end of the last season of gino and didn't return until shortly after the third season began? Perhaps he was writing scripts. Then there's BANG, that elusive ladies man with a taste for Captain Morgan, who was seen crossing the Canadian border several times. What do we really know about him, other than the fact that he visited every strip club in Vancouver? Could he be Moore? And finally, there's the even more elusive PORTHOS, perhaps the only man who hates gino more than I. Or could it just be an act? Take care, RON D. Er, I mean RAND, Squire of Valeria, esteemed member of The Council of Twelve, Galactica Scholar and certainly not the MooreRon.
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The commentator
posts on 10/10/2006 11:49:36 AM
Yet another test to see if I can post a fracking message.
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The commentator
posts on 10/3/2006 10:43:40 AM
Why is this message board so difficult to post at? You would get alot more people posting here if the moderators would lighten up and possibly fix the board.
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The commentator
posts on 8/6/2006 10:15:19 PM
sue, airwolf was a series back in 1984 about a top secret government agency called the FIRM that hires a man named moffet to build a super advanced attack helicopter called airwolf. moffet steals airwolf and travels to libya where he does things for khadaffi, or however he spells his name,( like shooting down french fighter planes and even destroying an american destroyer) in exchange for women who he can freely torture to death. the firm then hires a former employee and loner named stringfellow hawke to retrieve airwolf. hawke agrees, but not for the million dollars the firm offers, but rather that the firm finds his brother singhin who is MIA in viet nam. knowing the firm will go back on their word about finding singhin, once he retrieves airwolf and kills moffet, hawk refuses to return it to the firm and hides it in a cave in an area of the california desert called the valley of the gods. later, hawke strikes a deal with the firm to use airwolf on top secret missions for the firm, provided they continue to look for singhin. if you can get over the silliness of a helicopter going faster than the speed of sound, it's really a fun series. it also had a fantastic soundtrack written by a gentleman named sylvester levay. the first season of eleven episodes is available on dvd. take care.
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The commentator
posts on 8/6/2006 7:53:03 PM
It was made because CBS needed something to compete with Blue Thunder.
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The commentator
posts on 8/6/2006 7:04:34 PM
I apologize. I'm a bit of a newbie to the truly classic SF stuff out there. Could you tell me something about the airwolf series Rand? Thanks!
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