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RE: starship-design: Battleship galactica?
On Friday, October 03, 1997 12:47 PM, Gertchen1@aol.com
[SMTP:Gertchen1@aol.com] wrote:
> But what about another galaxy?
>
If they can get here from another galaxy and they are hostile, I am looking
for a rock to hide under, there is absolutely NOTHING else we can do...
> BUT What if we sent out a ship and discovred a ship that cannot be
> detected?
> What does our radars detect? Life forms? What if they're all robot? What
> if
> the ship's outer hull prevents scanning? What about radar jamming?
>
If they can do all of that, then I am still looking for that rock...
> But why wait until something does happen until we react?
>
Because, I am not going to waste valuable time worrying about something
that is not only improbable, but implausible.
> Battlestar Galactica is a space opera written to entertain,
> it has very little attention to reality or fact. Reality is too boring
to
>
> make good TV fare.
> Unfortunately, you are right -_-;
I'm glad to see we agree on at least one thing.
Lee Parker