From: buffhunter@my-deja.com   
      
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   no@email4u.com says...   
   > Tim McGaughy  wrote in   
   > news:f_ydnZ0xM9UvN4PRnZ2dnUVZ_omdnZ2d@posted.toastnet:   
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   > >> Forget BSG 80?   
   > >   
   > > Doesn't matter. In the original show, colonists are supposed to have   
   > > arrived on Earth at some point in prehistory, and then we're apparently   
   > > supposed to have lost all that high tech.   
   >   
   > Except in the season/series finale, they picked up the Lunar Landing,   
   > meaning they had to be approaching AFTER that.   
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   Some people are confusing the two voyages. The first one that   
   colonised Earth as the 13th Colony and the Rag Tag Fleet looking for   
   Earth thousands of years later. And there is a slightly different   
   interpretation between the New BSG and the old one:   
      
   In the old one Earth was found and founded by the 13th colonist.   
   Somehow we lost all that technology but were the inspiration for all   
   of the ancients including the Egyptians and the Greeks who's history   
   leads right up to us.   
      
   Then the Rag Tag fleet went looking for Earth. Whether you accept   
   "Galactica 1980" as canon or not (I do as awful as it was) they   
   found/would have found Earth after the Moon Landing in July 1969 as   
   shown in the last episode of the original "Battlestar Galactica"; so   
   they would had found us in modern times anyway you look at it by   
   tracing the signal back (which is why I accept "Galactica 1980" as   
   the legit successor to the original BSG. That shot of the Apollo 11   
   lift off toward the end of the original BSG foreshadowed it).   
      
   In the new "Battlestar Galactica" the 13th colonist found Original   
   Earth, but they were what would be later called Cylons who broke   
   away form the other 12 Colonies who learned how to reproduce   
   naturally and let resurrection technology lapse. They end up making   
   the same mistakes the humans on Kobol did destroying Earth in a Human   
   Cylon Vs mechanical Cylon War except for a few escapes who would be   
   called the Final Five. They discovered the 12 Colonies and won a stay   
   of execution of mankind temporarily to keep the Colonial Cylons from   
   destroying them.   
      
   Then the Colonial Cylons destroyed almost totally. The Colonial   
   humans who fled trying to find Earth. They did, Original Earth which   
   was destroyed by the Cylon humans the Final Five belonged to and came   
   from. Then they moved on and eventually found Earth 2, our Earth.   
   They renounced technology and mated with the identical human natives   
   of Earth 2 and we essentially started all over again influencing   
   greatly over a course of 150,000 years our cultures like the Greeks.   
   That led all the way up to us now through the trace elements of Cylon   
   DNA carrying the Colonial Memories through out the generations,   
   thinking they were our own original ideas in some cases, right up to   
   Bob Dyan thinking he was the one who came up with "All Along the   
   Watch Tower" LOL!   
      
   Simply put in the original BSG The Rag Tag Fleet found us/would've   
   found us in modern times as the descendants of the 13th tribe. In the   
   New BSG The Rag Tag Fleet were our beginnings, The 13th tribe went   
   somewhere else and we are the descendants of the Rag Tag Fleet.   
   --   
   ----->Hunter   
      
   "No man in the wrong can stand up against   
    a fellow that's in the right and keeps on acomin'."   
      
                  -----William J. McDonald   
              Captain, Texas Rangers from 1891 to 1907   
      
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