From: invaliddmpyron@austin.rr.com   
      
   [Default] Thus spake RT :   
      
   >Your Name wrote:   
   >> In article <4C1AC54C.3040304@earthlink.net>, newsgroups@thejoekorner.com   
   wrote:   
   >> > Your Name wrote:   
   >> > > "Tim McGaughy"  wrote in message   
   >> > >> QN wrote:   
   >> > >>   
   >> > >>> I hated the luddite ending.   
   >> > >>>   
   >> > >>> IMHO they looked for ways to cut the budget and pooped on the script   
   to   
   >> > >>>   
   >> > > make   
   >> > >   
   >> > >>> it fit.   
   >> > >>>   
   >> > >> While I dislike it, too, it ends the way the original series was   
   >> > >> heading: They find Earth. And the only way to keep us in present day   
   >> > >> from realizing what happened back in prehistory was to dump all the   
   tech   
   >> > >> and be prehistoric.   
   >> > >>   
   >> > >> I see it as them being way too faithful to a piece of trash original   
   >> > >> series that worshipped Von Daniken.   
   >> > >   
   >> > > The original, and real, Battlestar Galactica never reached Earth and as   
   far   
   >> > > as I know there was never any indication anywhere of what Glen Larson   
   may or   
   >> > > may not have had in mind for future seasons.   
   >> > >   
   >> > > The garbagised Galactica 1980 did of course reach Earth and it was   
   "present   
   >> > > day" Earth (they also travelled back in time to World War II).   
   >> >   
   >> > In the last scene of the last episode, Starbuck (the male) and Apollo   
   >> > with their respective girlfriends are in an unused observation dome.   
   >> > Just after they leave, the radio receives,   
   >> >  "Tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed."   
   >> >   
   >> > The second season might have been great.   
   >>   
   >> True, I'd forgotten about that. Of course we have no idea how far away   
   >> from Earth they were when they received that message. It could easily have   
   >> been many decades after the moon landing when / if the Galactica actually   
   >> reached Earth.   
   >   
   >Considering the quality of the signal, possibly not that far away (relatively   
   >speaking).   
      
   yes, relativity kicks in.   
      
   Oh, sorry, getting a little blind.  :-)   
      
   Yes, the inverse square law also kicks in.  The power of the signal   
   deceases as the square of the distance.  Double the distance, cut the   
   power to 1/4.  This is also what makes radar hunters (Weasals, etc) so   
   dangerous.  "if I can see you, I can kill you.  If you can see me,   
   I've already killed you."   
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