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| :::::Actually, it was a reference to the movie [http://imdb.com/title/tt0107144/ Hot Shots Part Deux] (it was on tv when I was replying to that) where the government goes to get Topper Harley to go rescue all the captured people in Iraq since he's all that is left. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 09:19, 7 March 2007 (CST) | | :::::Actually, it was a reference to the movie [http://imdb.com/title/tt0107144/ Hot Shots Part Deux] (it was on tv when I was replying to that) where the government goes to get Topper Harley to go rescue all the captured people in Iraq since he's all that is left. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 09:19, 7 March 2007 (CST) |
| ::::Don't Forget Bulldog... --[[User:Ublej|Ublej]] 15:58, 7 March 2007 (CST) | | ::::Don't Forget Bulldog... --[[User:Ublej|Ublej]] 15:58, 7 March 2007 (CST) |
| :::::Hell yeah, almost forgot about that guy. I'd like to see him actually flying a Viper. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 16:10, 7 March 2007 (CST)
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| ::::::How about taking a spin in the Viper seat? That'd be nice a little "Independence Day" for madam president!--Zareck Rocks 20:49, 9 March 2007 (CST)
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| == Some notes on gas giants and pressure ==
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| Since there was some back and forth editing going on on analysis of the destruction of the Viper, I thought I would put some scientific information here to clear up some issues.
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| * Human beings can actually survive a great deal of pressure, as long as we breathe the right pressurized air mixture. Scuba divers have gone down to over 30 atmospheres, I think people in pressure tank tests have gone further. The risk is that you must depressurize slowly and properly on the way back up or you will get bends/embolisms. We're way more able to handle it than a sealed ship.
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| * Probes we have sent into Jupiter (such as from Galileo) were able to fall for over an hour down to about 100 miles of depth where they were shut down not by pressure (about 30 atmospheres there) but by the temperature from Jupiter's surprising internal heat.
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| * The atmosphere is typically hydrogen/methane. That can burn if Oxygen is provided, though it typically does not explode unless the mixture is made just right. The leaking of hydrogen/methane into a ship could cause trouble if not designed for (though I would personally not want to use such ships in a Jovian atmosphere at all.)
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| * Spacecraft, meant mostly for spaceflight, are usually not designed to withstand much external pressure at all. It adds a lot of weight to do that. They are built to handle the reverse -- their own internal pressure, ranging from 5psi to 15psi (1 Atmosphere.)
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| * However, a spacecraft with a hull breach or broken window would equalize pressure, and not be crushed in that section. A ship rated for travel in a dense atmosphere would normally just equalize pressure rather than let itself be crushed. Vipers, we have to presume, are not designed for this.
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| * A helmet, with a curved dome, would be much more resistant to pressure than a ship, and in an ejection suit, this is how it would be designed. However, fairly trivially, it could be designed to equalize pressure if needed. However, Viper helmets, if never intended for use in dense atmosphere, might not do that. (Starbuck's helmet, presuming the window is really broken, obviously works at the pressure she encounters up to the Viper's destruction.)
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| * Winds would be very dangerous -- they are very strong, and stay strong as you go deep -- up to 700 km/h!
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| * As noted, on Jupiter one could probably freefall for over an hour, no parachute, with just a scuba tank, before pressure would get you. The temperature and winds would be the killers.
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| * Fuel tanks and air tanks of course are highly pressurized inside, and would not be damaged by high pressure.
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| * At the point that pressure is reaching about 2 atmospheres on Jupiter, no light from the sun is getting in. The area they fly appears to have some sunlight still present.
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| I don't know whether Starbuck will be back or not, on that we can only speculate. I normally prefer dead characters to stay dead. I just want to keep the notes on the physics of their situation consistent with science as we understand it.--[[User:Bradtem|Bradtem]] 16:33, 7 March 2007 (CST)
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| :Be that as it may be, the section read like "IF Starbuck ejected, and IF she could survive in her suit for some hours, and IF someone magically picked her up, then she would survive". And that's kinda fanwanky. Better to write nothing at all then.
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| :Yeah, she could survive relatively easily in the upper atmosphere, but we don't know how far the Viper went down. It has been established that the ship would burn up (as it did at the end; it wasn't really crushed). So all those explanations aside, the temperature would likely also destroy a spacesuit after a while too, especially if she descended even farther down (maybe that should be mentioned and the whole pressure thing be dropped).
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| :Saying that the odds for her survival can't be determined is ok, but then the whole thing is kinda pointless in a way. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:45, 7 March 2007 (CST)
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| ::Yup. I was just correcting some notes that were saying she was surely crushed by the pressure, and they were getting re-corrected so I wanted to lay down the physics to avoid that sort of back and forth. It may be that the best thing to say is that the circumstances were left ambiguous, and that based on what we know, we can't say she'll be back, and we can't say she won't. What's worth documenting is what we see in the show, and what we know from science (since it claims to try to be a naturalistic SF show). The only speculative conclusion is that we don't know what happened to her. The way I see it a good role of the wiki is to document all the clues you might wish to know in order to do your own speculations, while not doing those speculations for you. Of course, speculations will always drive those clues -- the main reason you are interested in whether the raider was real or not, or whether she could have survived or not is to form your own hypothesis on how like it is she'll be back. The way to draw the line is to include in the Wiki entries of the form, "If you want to speculate for yourself on Starbuck, here are the facts" rather than "I think Starbuck is dead/alive because of xxx"--[[User:Bradtem|Bradtem]] 18:30, 7 March 2007 (CST)
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| Rather that have a debate on the issue in successive edits, I have simplified the text to a statement that we don't have sufficient information to judge how good the Galactica ejection suits are. We thus are not going to resolve this. Also corrected wind speed quote from 100 miles/second (which is impossible) to 700 km/hour recorded by NASA probes. Wiki page cited only notes 100 m/s, which is 360 km/hour or 225 mph, quite a bit less than 100 miles/second, which is .05% of lightspeed. {{unsigned|Bradterm}}
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| I'd like to note for the record that while I don't remember whether dialog established this planet as a gas giant, throughout both of the later flight scenes, both Gaeta and Tigh (and the display Gaeta keeps watch) refer to the "hard deck." In essense they're saying pull up or you will crash into the surface. Jovian planets don't have a "surface" like terrestrial planets do. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_giant] I'm not making any points for Starbuck's alive or dead or somewhere inbetween debate. Just pointing out that we may be focusing on the planet make up a bit too much.
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| :Whoops...I was so busy figuring out how to properly source my above comment I forgot to sign it!--[[User:RUSnooky|RUSnooky]] 09:06, 9 March 2007 (CST)
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| :Don't take it too literally. It's a phrase for the altitude where the pressure and temperature will destroy a craft. Not literally the surface. Tigh says as much. The strong magnetic fields that gas giants can have could also explain the presence of [[w:Synchrotron radiation|synchrotron radiation]]. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 09:14, 9 March 2007 (CST)
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| == Viper construction and atmospheric pressure ==
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| My problem with the scientific discussion in the [[Talk:Maelstrom#Some_notes_on_gas_giants_and_pressure|preceding section]] is that it treats the [[Viper_(RDM)|Viper]] as a single component rather than a collection of components, such as weapons, engines, fuel tanks, life-support and cockpit. Some components may not be pressurized, while others certainly are.
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| We learned in [[Dirty Hands]] that refined [[Tylium]] is a liquid, and is pumped into Viper fuel tanks much like gasoline. In flight, this fuel must be supplied to the engines in a variety of conditions, such as zero-gravity, high g-force maneuvers, atmospheric operations including climbing and diving, and flipping, reversing, turning and braking. This most likely involves sealed tanks which are pressurized sufficiently to keep the Tylium flowing steadily.
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| The breach of Kara's pressurized cockpit would equalize pressure between that component and the atmosphere, but would not affect fuel tank pressure. As Kara plummets, we see her fuel tanks appear intact as her Viper fuselage heats up, catches fire and explodes. Obviously, much heat is generated before the fire ignites, and that would weaken the structural ability of the fuel tanks to withstand increasing pressure. So I posit the following sequence of events:
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| *As Kara's Viper dives through the atmosphere, pressure increases and her fuselage heats up, getting weaker and weaker to the point of failure.
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| *The fuel tanks rupture under pressure and begin leaking fuel.
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| *The fuel contacts the searing hot fuselage, ignites and explodes.
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| I'm not a scientist or an engineer (dammit, Jim), but this seems plausible and consistent with events. Perhaps someone with a more appropriate background can enlighten me. [[User:Dogger55|Dogger55]] 13:26, 10 July 2011 (EDT)
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| == Did Apollo see the Heavy Raider? ==
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| RDM has had a couple of 20-questions session on the Battlestar Galactica Forum at SciFi.com. The answer to this question is that Apollo didn't not see the Raider. Didn't whether to move the question here or answer on the episode page. I am planning on adding a entry pointing to the exact threads when I make it home. --[[User:Gougef|FrankieG]] 16:50, 9 March 2007 (CST)
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| :Do you mean "see" or "notice"? He doesn't appear to notice it in the show, though the audience sees it from his PoV (I put up a screencap of that.) Could not find the thread so await your link.--[[User:Bradtem|Bradtem]] 19:42, 9 March 2007 (CST)
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| ::Someone was kind enough to condensed the posts into [http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2267125 one] for the second set of questions. --[[User:Gougef|FrankieG]] 21:59, 9 March 2007 (CST)
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| :::A link to the original post from RDM's username is necessary. Once that is found, the note should be placed under "official statements". --[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] 22:09, 9 March 2007 (CST)
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| == Visual symbolism, maybe, perhaps ==
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| I was watching this in the not too long ago (i.e. last week) when I noticed something beautiful. When Kara walks by Roslin in Adama, she strolls through a corridor where some crewmen are working on the lights. When she gets there, the lights go out, but upon turning around and walking away, the light comes back on. It struck as something that was put in there to me something, but I can't really get my head around as to what that something might be. Anyone have a guess or am I just looking for metaphors behind metaphorical bushes? --[[User:Mars|Mars]] 22:57, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
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| :Foreshadowing of her apparent death in Maelstrom and her return at the end of Crossroads? -- [[User:Gordon Ecker|Gordon Ecker]] 09:13, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
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| ::Or foreshadowing her prophesied role as herald of the apocalypse, and maybe a hint maybe that the future is not set in stone, that there is a choice. If "all this has happened before, and it will happen again", there were past heralds of the apocalypse, and humanity survived each time to begin the cycle again.-- [[User:Fredmdbud|Fredmdbud]] 14:41, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
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| == Is Starbuck from Earth? ==
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| On her death bed Kara's mother has many items without the corners cut off. However, not all the items were square. Most notably, a painting of the concentric circles is on a square piece of paper. Is this significant or just a mistake?
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| --[[User:Hulkenergy|Hulkenergy]] 00:12, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
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| == Doll ==
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| Is there a significance to the doll seen in the episode? The same blonde doll in a glass case is seen in [[Yolanda Brenn]]'s place early in the episode and on [[Socrata Thrace]]'s bedstand towards the end of the episode. --[[User:Jörg|Jörg]] 00:39, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
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| http://s95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/gaghyogi49/BSG/YolandaBrennsdollMaelstrom.jpg
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| http://s95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/gaghyogi49/BSG/SocrataThracesdollMaelstrom.jpg
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| : Probably. There's a lot of symbolism in that episode, particularly regarding the mandala. (The tube of ointment next to the doll in the second picture has a small radiant circle that resembles the mandala.) Or it could be a very popular collectors item in the Colonies. There's nothing in [[Podcast:Maelstrom|the commentary]] about it, but definitely raises an interesting question. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 16:04, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
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