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[The Cunning Linguist]

I thought there was a shot of the entire fleet entering the atmosphere.

Maybe I was wrong...?

 

[hunter001]

I thought there was a shot of the entire fleet entering the atmosphere.

Maybe I was wrong...?

There was a shot of part of the fleet entering the atmosphere. I am not sure if they all landed in the same place.

 

[tboy]

There was a shot of part of the fleet entering the atmosphere. I am not sure if they all landed in the same place.

Ummm the only shot close to that was the one where they were all entering orbit.....that's a big difference between landing and orbiting....

I can see how you'd be mislead: the typical approach angle when entering orbit is to come in close to the plane of the planet surface ie: the way the enterprise does it on Star Trek.

The BSG scene showed them all travelling almost perpendicular to the surface which would be next to impossible to land without burning up in the atmosphere and they would not achieve an orbit ....

 

[hunter001]

Ummm the only shot close to that was the one where they were all entering orbit.....that's a big difference between landing and orbiting....

I can see how you'd be mislead: the typical approach angle when entering orbit is to come in close to the plane of the planet surface ie: the way the enterprise does it on Star Trek.

The BSG scene showed them all travelling almost perpendicular to the surface which would be next to impossible to land without burning up in the atmosphere and they would not achieve an orbit ....

I went back and watched it before and that isn't what I saw. I know will will argue black is white so you are right... whatever.

 

[BuffNaked]

Ummm the only shot close to that was the one where they were all entering orbit.....that's a big difference between landing and orbiting....

I can see how you'd be mislead: the typical approach angle when entering orbit is to come in close to the plane of the planet surface ie: the way the enterprise does it on Star Trek.

The BSG scene showed them all travelling almost perpendicular to the surface which would be next to impossible to land without burning up in the atmosphere and they would not achieve an orbit ....

Looks like someone forgot to suspend there disbelief at the front door.

 

[tboy]

Looks like someone forgot to suspend there disbelief at the front door.

LOL and someone forgot to use their spell check

 

[The Cunning Linguist]

Ummm the only shot close to that was the one where they were all entering orbit.....that's a big difference between landing and orbiting....

I can see how you'd be mislead: the typical approach angle when entering orbit is to come in close to the plane of the planet surface ie: the way the enterprise does it on Star Trek.

The BSG scene showed them all travelling almost perpendicular to the surface which would be next to impossible to land without burning up in the atmosphere and they would not achieve an orbit ....

I'm with hunter001 and agree with buffnaked on this one....the laws of science don't really apply to BSG. There have been numerous scenes when the fleet's ships either land or take off from a planets surface (New Caprica for one) and they never show what we consider to be the right flight "attitude" to stop from burning up (heat shield down)

And of course, the really big one. Zero G gravity is completely ignored.

I think they all landed....or at least all the ships that could land (maybe the one that looks like a ferris wheel couldn't), but all the ones that had aerodynamic shapes.

 

[herames]

"Caprica" Prequel to BSG with Eric Stoltz appearing in it.
http://io9.com/5027958/capricas-eric-stoltz-talks-to-io9-about-meeting-the-first-cylons

 

[james t kirk]

I need the second half of Season 4.

Never mind Caprica.

Damn those producers all to hell.