ahhh, all we need is the galacticans to get to earth and give us their engine technology

then we'd kick the cylons asses for them

imagine a starfury type design ,- 2 metalstorm 30mm pods, 4 missile pylons

and the cylons wouldnt be able to fritz our computers- they wouldnt be compatible!

Treadgar

Buck Rodgers? That rocks. I remember getting a kick out of it when the year really *was* 1987 and there weren't *any* manned deep space probes.  Heh.

Treadgar

The Galactica has taken numerous direct hits from high-yield nuclear warheads without severe damage - it is constructed of advanced materials.  Granted they did nearly destroy it when they took on four Cylon Basestars at the battle of New Caprica, but the scene where they take the Galactica into the atmosphere and then conduct an FTL jump right above the city - holy smokes - that was a good episode.  Even watching Sci-Fi, few times am I sitting there with my jaw open thinking "now this is a new concept of crazy."

 

Too bad they've noodled the plot to nothingness in season 3.  Next season is confirmed to be the last - here's to redemption.

Treadgar

The Galactia needs advanced materials to do the things it does in the series, but an atomic blast in space isn't as deadly as it is in the atmosphere where you have the over pressure component. Still, didn't one of them actually penetrate the hull before it went off? That would hurt no matter where you are.

First there was the movie, then came the TV series. I thought the evil queen (can't remember her name) was hot, especially those form fitting suits she wore. The movie was kind of funny. There's Buck Rogers flying around in a space shuttle when he gets frozen. Time goes by and they find him frozen in space. Somehow he gets revived (I can't remember how) and he's flying the shuttle around with these space fighters escorting him back to Earth. The shuttle seems to fly like the fighters, I'm talking powered flight after reentry into Earth's atomosphere. I thought the ship designs were really cool, but I hated the little robot Twiggy. Sometimes I feel insulted by the kinds of stuff Hollywood puts together for scifi movies, and that was one of those instances, but then the queen walks into the room and I keep watching like the damned libidnous fool I am. I guess you can figure out one of the reasons I faithfully watched Wonder Women with Susan Carter as our star spangled heroine.

"Evil queen" no but evil sexy princess - Pamela Hensley.

"Twiggy" is really "Twiki" and I hated it too but it was also nice to hear Mel Blanc as the voice of the little tin turd.

Wonder Woman was Lynda Carter not Susan, and she was and still is extremely watchable.

im sure that theres a minimum physical warhead dimension for a certain megatonage

those ASM that the cylons fired at galactica looked to be amraam sized.- maybe up to 1 KT?

the w54 warhead was similar in size

 

true a large nuke in contact would obliterate the vessel- but getting to impact with a large missile would be hard

even a 1KT warhead would ruin your day

dradus or something like that.

I reckon an Aegis radar would do at least as good a job

in some ways our tech is better

whack a couple of ABL sized lasers on the ships hull and task em for missile popping

the ones off the attack ships are only dubiously likely to be nukes i think.  even a one kt explosion would be way overkill on a fighter.  we see on a number of occasions direct hits on vipers that result in a pretty conventional bang and viper bits heading for the horizon.  if those were baby nukes it's not likely there would be any viper bits left.

the ship mounted anti ship missiles seem to be icbm sized things so they have plenty of room to carry a heck of a bang.

The show hard a problem of uneven tec development.  Once you up the text so that you can move large populations of people through space it implys certain improvements in other areas like weapons and their guidance systems.  But you are trying to tell a story.  Real space combat of an intergalactic sort would be insufficiently heroic for fiction TV.  We want WWI fighter aces and WWII submarine combat with all the same people in it.  Then they use the viper pilots as a police force in easy episodes.  Drama trumps hard siencefiction speculation over space combat.  Watching people sit and talk about how much weight to carry in fuel and weapons and then talk about weather to take more short range or fewer long range missiles is not made for TV fun.  The exciting improvisation of a pilot in danger is more TV fodder but burns to much fuel to be real. 

 

Wars don't look like war movies because so much of the important stuff in wars sense the invention smokeless powder happens where it won't be seen.  War movies need the drama to be visible and big.  War movies put people where they can be seen as a group and are there fore a example of what exactly not to do when getting shot at.