so it seems to me that they have to kinds of small arms. they have regular projectile weapons like what boomer blew her cheek out with and then they have some sort of advanced gun that they seem to only use on a planet, like the one helo shot boomer with. my thinking is that it is some form of gauss gun because it doesnt seem to be a pure energy weapon. there is a flash of blue when they fire it whoch could be the discharge from it being accelerated. it would make sense then for them to only use those guns planet side because they could easily punch a hole in the hull from the inside if they fired one on board ship. the damage to boomers shoulder was also much greater than from a conventional projectile. what does everyone else think? also any thoughts on why they dont have those type of weapons on the vipers or raiders? it seems like they only have regular canons on the fighters.
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Originally posted by Darth BuddhaI wasn't sure the weapons used on the planet weren't projectile as well.. but you could be right about a gauss gun.
Personally, I like the low tech approach. Laser guns, phasers, zats... it's all way out there. Projectile weapons will probably rule the very far distant future just as they do today.
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Fifty sounds like a good estimate, maybe even forty. The FTL Drive and a few other things make that theory rather plausable; of course, omitting the FTL because unless it turns out that in one half of a century, we all band together and figure out how to surpass the speed of light, well, that just blows us away.
At any rate, I would say that is a good projection; the flying ships all over the place and whatnot in Caprica from those scenes in the miniseries made me feel differently but in retrospect and in general, I agree.If you've seen a Jeff O'Connor or a JeffZero or a Jeff Zero or a JeffZeroConnor elsewhere on the net, there's a considerable chance it's me.
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Originally posted by Darth BuddhaDo you really think in fifty years we'll be able to construct a craft with FTL, an aircraft carrier's worth of space fighters, artificial gravity, and commercial spaceflight AS WELL that has FTL?
Boy, you are way more optimistic than I am!
All right, I was getting a tad ahead of myself there. What was meant in general, though, was that though our setting would be, given our apparent society, a lot more ground-based, I wouldn't be surprised if in half a century we have some of what's there. Commercial spaceflight? Check, actually. Space fighters... yeah, okay. But I think some of the technology behind the 'concept' will be there. Just... at much slower speeds and whatnot.If you've seen a Jeff O'Connor or a JeffZero or a Jeff Zero or a JeffZeroConnor elsewhere on the net, there's a considerable chance it's me.
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Originally posted by Darth BuddhaDo you really think in fifty years we'll be able to construct a craft with FTL, an aircraft carrier's worth of space fighters, artificial gravity, and commercial spaceflight AS WELL that has FTL?
Boy, you are way more optimistic than I am!
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It takes the energy of several star systems to able to fold space. I think we're a fair way away from developing that kind of power source.
Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est - "A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands"
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BC-65AD)
Why it's a "magazine" and not a "clip".
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Originally posted by Jeff O'Connor...touche.
All right, I was getting a tad ahead of myself there.
Originally posted by spg_1983given access to the element they use we could
Originally posted by PantherIt takes the energy of several star systems to able to fold space. I think we're a fair way away from developing that kind of power source.
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Originally posted by Darth BuddhaYou are assuming that this element is the key. That may or may not be the case. BSG has NEVER been big on getting into the technology, in any incarnation. Not as much as Trek, not as much as Stargate.
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Even if hyperspace travel is pretty simple. One of those Earth is missing an element, humans have a blind spot and can't see the obvious, or another one of the classic SF plots there is still a lot of things missing before we can travel to another solar system. Artificial gravity is very useful and also inertial compensators. It isn't very useful to be able to travel good percentages of lightspeed if it takes you 2 years to get to that point. Some type of shielding other than lots of steel would also be very useful. Oh well, it would be nice and hopefully Earth will actually work on this.
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Your pardon for getting this threrad back on track, but after careful scrutinisation of my Galactica DVDs, I've managed to identify some of the weapons used in the series.
The pistol used by Colonial pilots appears to be a 9mm Walther P99, but with a second smaller barrel (signal flares?).
The carbines used by the Marines in "Bastille Day" is the civillian version of the 5.7mm FN Herstal P90.
The rifles used by the Marines on ceremonial occasions is the British made 5.56mm Lee Enfield SA80 (don't start me on what a piece of junk this thing is...), but with white "furniture".
The pistol Galactica Boomer used to try and kill herself appear to be a member of the Glock family of 9mm automatics, possibly a Glock 19 or a Glock 26.sigpic
Long before you and I were born, others beat these benches with their empty cups,
To the night and its stars, to the here and now with who we are.
Another sunrise with my sad captains, with who I choose to lose my mind,
And if it's all we only pass this way but once, what a perfect waste of time.
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Originally posted by BruTakYour pardon for getting this threrad back on track, but after careful scrutinisation of my Galactica DVDs, I've managed to identify some of the weapons used in the series.
The pistol used by Colonial pilots appears to be a 9mm Walther P99, but with a second smaller barrel (signal flares?).
The carbines used by the Marines in "Bastille Day" is the civillian version of the 5.7mm FN Herstal P90.
The rifles used by the Marines on ceremonial occasions is the British made 5.56mm Lee Enfield SA80 (don't start me on what a piece of junk this thing is...), but with white "furniture".
The pistol Galactica Boomer used to try and kill herself appear to be a member of the Glock family of 9mm automatics, possibly a Glock 19 or a Glock 26.'Where did you get this'- Wraith Queen
'I don't remember'- Major Sheppard - Rising (part 2)
'I don’t know if you noticed or not, but I’m an extremely arrogant man who tends to think all of his plans will work.' - McKay - The Eye
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