totally unnecessary, they are in space, fly in to hangar deck, do a 180 flip in whatever direction floats your boat and apply thrust, and that Would look cool as hell.
totally unnecessary, they are in space, fly in to hangar deck, do a 180 flip in whatever direction floats your boat and apply thrust, and that Would look cool as hell.
totally unnecessary, they are in space, fly in to hangar deck, do a 180 flip in whatever direction floats your boat and apply thrust, and that Would look cool as hell.
holy carp !
if a Mod happens by I would appreciate it if my last 3 posts vanished. well leave on of the above ones but this one and the last 2 can go.
I think you violate Mr. Newton’s Laws there at some point, but I dropped third semester Physics what with the Schrodenger equation. 
just watched the season premier, when the raider with the boarding crew passed apollo he did exactly what I just described. was flying one way, uses manouvering thrusters to flip the ship 180 and hits the main thrusters hard, rapid decelleration followed by accelleration in the other direction, it makes sense to use the main thrusters for the job because you dont want to put another set of big ass engines on the front of a fighter when the only point is to make a nice sweet landing. and it would take some big ass engines to counter the big ass engines on the rear. well that or you would need a long time to slow down.
Mrs. Magill and I finally had a chance to watch this Saturday afternoon.
Two words: Frakkin’ January.
One thing we’ve been wondering about is how the heck The Pegasus could go up against Cylons without their virus (thanks Baltar) totally disabling them?
I’ll have to subscribe to the Cain is a Cylon theory.
You mean that doesn’t work?
[ Lillian Lust ] Hot toast - or buttered buns? [/ Lillian Lust ]
and I could never get to class what with all the dead cats cluttering the halls. Hmm, at least, I think they were dead.
They were in spacedock and had most of their systems shutdown. It wouldn’t be a stretch to imagine that their systems were all off line at the time of the attack, and then they later un-networked the computers.
I was thinking firing a thruster under the nose to change your attitude would change the flight path to “up”; firung thrusters in the nose and tail should cancel the “up” vector and just flip you around though.
Yes, but they are flying the new vipers which are susceptible to the virus. The first battle with the cylons should have left them floating helpless.
I’m not sure where I saw it on the net, but I think I know the nature of the unknown Cylon ship…
the next episode is titled something like “Resurrection Ship”
I got the season one DVDs recently and have been watching them off-and-on. I noted that in the first episode, “33,” the very first time we see Apollo toward the beginning of the show (setting the perimeter for jump 237 or whatever it is), he’s in his new-model silver-gray viper rather than one of the white ones. Obviously Galactica’s crew has the benefit of Baltar’s presence in scrubbing software and retrofitting equipment, but the point is that the new vipers can indeed be hardened; the vulnerability to Cylon meddling is not somehow inherent to their design.