The Cylons are coming!

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
I was speaking in general response instead of quoting directly. We just don't really know what the directors/producers are basing the measurements on.

Possibly Snickers bars, I don't think they lost too much sleep over technical details.

[DRoseDARs]

Think "CGI" modelling. They had to figure out some system to give a proper sense of scale in the modelling universe.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Come on, they just glued a couple of Balsa bits to two boomerangs and dowel rodded them together for the Base Stars....................

[DRoseDARs]

Michael Moore is very distracting, almost hypnotic...

[Locutus]

The measurement on the website are indeed given in feet. In case of the Battlestar Galactica, the length is 4640 ft, which is indeed only 5 times larger than a modern aircraft carrier, but the width is given as 1820 ft, which is 8-10 times larger than modern aircraft carriers and the height as 580 ft, which is 3-4 times higher than an aircraft carrier is from keel to mast (of which the island represents what, 2/3? 1/2?). So in terms of volume, the Galactica is still easily 200 times bigger than an aircraft carrier. Basestars are somewhat longer than the Galactica at 5100 ft, so presumably the other measurements are also in the same order of magnitude.

Those seem like reasonable measurements to me: if they were much bigger, it would be hard to believe that one could build entire fleets of them with the resources from only a handful of planets...

[SpencerH]

Given a complement of 5000 on an aircraft carrier, the crew aboard the galactica seems a little thin.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by SpencerH
Given a complement of 5000 on an aircraft carrier, the crew aboard the galactica seems a little thin.

You know, you're right. Let's send them some robots to fill in the gaps.

[GePap]

A lot would be automated, no??

The fighter wing seems prety small, so the amount of crews to service them seems minimal to keep them going.

[Whoha]

I feel cheated, we didn't get to see Captain Adama fly through a bunch of bodies after the destruction of the Olympic carrier. That is obviously what happened or it wouldn't be bothering him

[DRoseDARs]

He was even shown to be looking inside the windows for any sign of life. It was clear that it was dimly lit and motionlesss in the vessel, so it's odd that they have him being all weepy over an empty ship ... well, an empty ship filled with nukes.

[DRoseDARs]

Perhaps the size vs crew difference can be explained away by the fact they needed to carry as much ordinance as they could get out of Ragnor. I couldn't guess about regular supplies, other than they've got a lot of cargo space. Or an alternate explaination is the ship survived a direct hit by a nuclear torpedo. That's a lot of armor between the blast and the crew.

[Whoha]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
He was even shown to be looking inside the windows for any sign of life. It was clear that it was dimly lit and motionlesss in the vessel, so it's odd that they have him being all weepy over an empty ship ... well, an empty ship filled with nukes.

the cylons suck, the killbots from starsiege would have stapled people to the windows and gave them all radios so they could scream all the way plumetting towards the Galactica.

[Whoha]

In space stuff works differently, most of the blast from the weapon probably reflected off into space.

[DRoseDARs]

Perhaps, but they had precious little time before the rest of the fleet moved on, so they probably just jetisoned the survivors to make room for the nukes.

And it was still a directly-on-the-hull hit by a nuke. A little bit of the blast kills you dead without proper armoring. Enough of the blast reach the ship to send it into an uncontrolled spin. That's a lot of mass to move about like that.

[Whoha]

they had 45 hours to work on the ship. They must not take pride in slaughtering all humans