He could alway’s claim he gets migraines that make him photosensative. It’s still bad writing.
Isn’t there a ship with a interior park that has faux sunshine? Colonial One, maybe?
They give him an edge in the fleet’s annual Caprica Hold Em Tournament?
Cloud Nine. Got asploded. Try to keep up. 
What about that weird ring ship?
It’s still ring-gy, but we’ve never been inside.
-Joe
That would be the Space Park.
The space park.
I gotta give more points to “faux” than “asploded.”
I’ll probably get flamed. 
frak.
I gotta give more points to speed and a link.
Well, I can see why he might have them, but wearing them? Just cause he’s a douche, I guess.
It’s because those are the last. frackin’. sunglasses in the whole frackin’ galaxy.
Obviously.
Same reason Max Max wears leather in the post-Apocalypse Australian outback. Sure, it’s stupid and uncomfortable, but it you’ve got 'em, you wear 'em.
I always liked that ship. I’m curious what it looks like on the inside. The interior is big enough for a four-story building? How’s that work, I wonder? It doesn’t look as wide as it is tall. Maybe they mean without artificial gravity it’s big enough you wouldn’t feel any rotational coriolis type effects in a four story building, in which case it could be pretty massive inside.
It says its ring diameter is 1,250’. Is that feet? Not even a quarter mile. Doesn’t seem very big, then.
That’s smaller than a regular track encircling a football field. Would not care to wash & wax it, but I had the impression that it was much bigger…
Diameter, not circumference. A football track is 1320 feet in circumference. The Space Park is almost 4000 feet. Call it 3/4 of a mile if you walk around the inside.
Oops. Looks like double dumbass on Oakie :o
An O’Neill-type “Space Park” would be something like 12 & 1/2 miles in circumference, right? Obviously too big for this show, as they’d probably be able to house everyone in comfort on one ship.
IIRC, the “Space Park” ring ship is one of the few original-show designs they retained, partly in homage, partly because it looks cool. I wouldn’t spend a lot of time trying to analyze or rationalize something that was designed for TV in 1978.
I know, I know. I’m not going to pit bull a ship’s dimensions or anything, but what the heck, it’s something to talk about isn’t it?
I’ve occasionally noticed what looks like a new ship in the fleet, and who knows how much living space is actually available to them. It seems odd that a ship like Cloud Nine or maybe even the Space Park have lots of space, but then the tylium refiners appear to be living in crowded Beyond the Thunderdome conditions. Wouldn’t they spread everyone out? Why not?
It’s as valid a topic as why someone wears sunglasses, isn’t it?
They probably don’t spread people out as much as they should for cultural reasons. Most of the ships in the fleet are probably staffed and filled with one particular colony’s people. We’ve already seen inter-colony prejudice in action. The Geminids won’t eat Saggitaron food, while the Capricans think the Arieans smell weird. That sort of thing.
Just how many different ways are there to prepare algae?