From: bbbl67@yahoo.com   
      
   On 1/25/2011 12:49 PM, Steve Silverwood wrote:   
   > Interesting concept.  I always wondered how the Colonies were   
   > organized in space.  Putting them all in orbit around one star would   
   > be unworkable, as some would be scorching hot and others in perpetual   
   > winter (or worse), with Caprica apparently occupying the "garden spot"   
   > of the system.  I never considered a quad-nary(?) star cluster, quite   
   > a novel concept!  Thanks for the pointer to the article and graphic. I   
   > might order that poster, if I can only figure out where to put it...!   
   > :)   
   >   
   > -- //Steve//   
      
   Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by the elegance of the solution they   
   came up with. When I first heard in BSG that the twelve colonies were   
   all in the same star system, I was a little puzzled by how they could do   
   something like that. My first thoughts were what if these planets were   
   all moons of a gas supergiant or brown dwarf, several times bigger than   
   Jupiter, with Earth-sized moons. But still having 12 Earth sized moons   
   around one planet would mean that they would be playing billiards with   
   each others orbits.   
      
   Also ignoring that one inconvenient fact, if these were all moons of a   
   gas giant, they would be within visual range of each other. You would be   
   seeing them rising and falling in the sky, as well as seeing the main   
   planet looming large.   
      
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