Posted on February 6, 2010, at 12:58 pm .
Back in the day (which I think was only last year ago), the SyFy Channel (then known as SciFi) would produce short video recaps updating its perpetually perplexed viewers on the latest developments in its maddeningly complex space drama, “Battlestar Galactica.”
The recaps were titled “Battlestar Galactica: What the Frak is Going On?” Frak being the alien equivalent of a four-letter English that can’t be used on basic cable. Why was it OK to show people getting blown to bits but not cursing? Who knows? But, I digress…
In this spirit, I would like to briefly explain what I believe is going on with Obama’s proposed human spaceflight policy, “Galatica” style.
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Posted on March 21, 2009, at 6:54 pm .
As the hit TV show ends its four-year run, Alan Boyle interviews Battlestar Galactica’s science adviser about his work on the critically acclaimed series:
How does a naked singularity work? What happens when a spacecraft gets stressed-out? Answering such questions is all in a day’s work for Kevin Grazier, the scientific adviser for the critically acclaimed TV series “Battlestar Galactica.”
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Posted on March 13, 2009, at 2:00 am .
I’m guessing that more than a few of you are avid followers of Ron Moore’s complex space saga, Battlestar Galactica. A remake of a somewhat cheesy Star Wars rip-off of the same name that first aired thirty years ago, the re-imagined version — immersed as it is in post-9/11 fears and paranoia — has been one of the most compelling and thought-provoking programs on television.
With the show now drawing to a close, I thought I might take a break from the latest gossip about the new NASA administrator to write about it. Today’s topic: parallels between the 12 colonies and the Roman Empire.
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