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Cover13; -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Moore8217;s Law -- Part One: Life Here Began Out There -- Chapter 1: Are You Alive? -- Chapter 2: The Cylons -- Chapter 3: Are We Creating Our Own Cylons? -- Chapter 4: Cylon Intelligence and the Society of Mind -- Chapter 5: How Can Cylons Download Their Memories? -- Chapter 6: A Dialogue Between a Smartass Fanboy and a Real Scientist, Viz -- Chapter 7: Colonial + Cyclon + Natives = Human? -- Chapter 8: The Colonial Pharmacopeia -- Part Two: The Physics Of Battlestar Galactica -- Chapter 9: Energy Matters -- Chapter 10: E=Mc(Squared) -- Chapter 11: Special Relativity -- Chapter 12: General Relativity and Real Gravity (or the Lack Thereof) -- Chapter 13: The Wonderful World of Radiation -- Chapter 14: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, or How the Cylons Can Reoccupy Caprica After a Few Days But Not Dead Earth After Two Thousand Years -- Part Three: The Twelve Colonies And The Rest Of Space -- Chapter 15: Our Galaxy -- Chapter 16: A Star Is Born -- Chapter 17: The Many Different Types of Planets -- Chapter 18: Black Holes -- Chapter 19: There8217;s No Sound in Space, and No Color, Either -- Chapter 20: Water -- Part Four: Battlestar Tech -- Chapter 21: The Rocket8217;s Blue Glare -- Chapter 22: Faster Than Light -- Chapter 23: Artificial Gravity -- Chapter 24: Navigation -- Chapter 25: Battlestars, Vipers, and Raptors -- Chapter 26: Toasters and Jam -- Chapter 27: How Did the Cylons Infiltrate the Colonial Computer Infrastructure? -- Chapter 28: So Where Are They? -- Afterword -- Notes -- Credits -- About The Authors -- Index.;The official guide to the science behind the Battlestar Galactica universe Battlestar Galactica ( BSG ) has been called the best show on television, and as real as science fiction gets. It has dealt with issues of religious freedom, patriotism, terrorism, genetic engineering, and the ultimate science fiction question: what does it mean to be human? While the re-imagined BSG may not be packed with cool techie tools (the bad guys dont even have laser guns for fraks sake!), this book shows that the science in the series has a lot to say about the use of scienc.
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Copyright 2011 by Universal City Studios Productions LLLP. All Rights Reserved. Battlestar Galactica Universal Network Television LLC. Licensed by NBC Universal Television Consumer Products Group. All Rights Reserved.
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey
Published simultaneously in Canada
Credits appear on page 293.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Di Justo, Patrick, date.
The science of Battlestar Galactica / Patrick Di Justo, Kevin Grazier.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-470-39909-5 (pbk.); ISBN 978-0-470-88202-3 (ebk);
ISBN 978-0-470-88203-0 (ebk); ISBN 978-0-470-88204-7 (ebk)
ISBN 978-0-470-88203-0 (ebk); ISBN 978-0-470-88204-7 (ebk)
1. Technology-Popular works. 2. Science-Popular works. 3. Astronomy-Popular works. 4. Science fiction, American. 5. Battlestar Galactica (Television program : 1978-1979) 6. Battlestar Galactica (Television program : 2003) 7. Battlestar Galactica (Television program : 2004-2009) I. Grazier, Kevin Robert, date. II. Title.
T47.D54 2010
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For my mother and the memory of my father
P. D.
To everybody who made
Battlestar Galactica a reality
Battlestar Galactica a reality
K. G.
FOREWORD
Im going to tell the best possible story, and I dont care how many geeks I have to offend to get it done.
This sentiment, in various incarnations, is frequently expressed by television writers. What they mean is that theyre willing to ignore science, the what-would-really-happen, in order to tell the most compelling story. And, honestly, that makes sense. A TV writers job is to entertain, after all. Its 30 Rock, not Igneous Rocks. And it is certainly true that the tension in your real-time nail-biter of a detective drama might dissipate somewhat during that realistically long wait while the lab patiently sequences DNA. Settling on a less-than-dramatic story just so that the tiny percentage of viewers who know the science arent tempted to throw thingsit just doesnt seem like a winning strategy.
But the two priorities do not have to lie in opposition to each other. At Battlestar Galactica (also referred to in this book as Battlestar, Galactica, and BSG), writers were not allowed to jettison science for the sake of story. Other than in specific instances of intentionally inexplicable phenomena, science was respected. In this way, Battlestar Galactica resembled the classic tradition of science fiction novels, which didnt see science as a hindrance to the story but as a springboard.
The first episode of Battlestar that I cowrote was called The Passage, and it was all about a risky mission in which pilots escort an instrument-blind fleet through a high-radiation space phenomenon called a globular cluster. The mission was complex in terms of tactics as well as science, a tough one-two punch. My initial instinct was to simplify the mission, the dangers, the scienceto simplify somethingbecause I simply couldnt believe that the fragile tension of a forty-two-minute story could bear for seven of those minutes to be exposition. I wasnt convinced that it would work, in fact, until I saw the completed episode. The meticulous set-up of the strategy and dangers rings true because it is true. At least, it is true to the extent that I captured what I was being educated about during the writing process. (Did you know theres a difference between radiation and radioactivity? Oh, well, thats just me that didnt know, then.)
The sentiment of story over science with which I started this piece still echoed in my ears, even after The Passage, and there was a period during which I had to learn the lesson repeatedly. When I needed something to malfunction on a Raptor, I was surprised to find that I actually had to investigate which of the Raptors functions were controlled by which mechanisms and where they were located. When I needed to describe the effects of death in a vacuum, I needed to resist rumor (Your lungs pop out of your nose!) and find out what really happens. (Your lungs dont pop out of your nose or anywhere else interesting.) And dont get me started on single-event upsets.
Sometimes we writers ignored the advice we were giveneither because there is a limit on the stretchiness of a teleplay to accommodate explanation, or because we really were dealing with a situation that intentionally defied explanation, or just because of limits on our time and skill. But we really tried, and the truism of story versus science seemed less true every time I tested it. In fact, it starts to seem absurd. Truth, generally defined as emotional truth, is a huge part of what makes a good story. Is it so surprising that other kinds of truth would also support, not undermine, the same goal? As the child of a chemist, Im startled it took me so long to realize it.
The man supplying the Battlestar writers with our technical and scientific information was Kevin Grazier. In the time that I was writing for the show he personally advised me on: algae, globular clusters, fuel processing, Raptor thrust and steering mechanisms, CO2 scrubbers, the effects of a vacuum on a human body, SEUs, hypoxia, hypothermia, constellations, the distances of space, Jumping, and a lot of things Ive already forgotten. If the Cylon base ship toilet in one of my first drafts had survived to a production draft, I suspect we wouldve had a talk about it, too. (I saw it as a sort of living pulsing suction-cup-shaped protuberance.)
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