Battlestar Galactica: Litmus

Don't look behind the cut if you don't want spoilers on "Litmus", the last aired episode of Battlestar Galactica! (Yeah, okay, I'm late, but solarbird and I only got around to watching this thing last night...)

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Look out, Rivendell, here I come

Tonight I came home to find, in my mailbox, the part I was waiting on to get the treadmill fixed. I futzed around with the inner workings of the treadmill to get the thing on there, and seem to have successfully reassembled it, though the thing makes a bit more rattly noises than I remember. So I may have to take it apart again some time this weekend and figure out what I need to adjust.

BUT, since the console does once more work, I am now able to measure the distance I cover on my treadmill walks. So I'm borrowing an idea from mizkit and rain_girl_ak, and taking the Eowyn Challenge. It's a neat concept--providing folks with a means to motivate exercise by handing you the estimated distances in miles between various locations in Middle-Earth, so you can see how far you get compared to, oh, say, the Fellowship. Or Bilbo and the dwarves.

I've set out for Rivendell as of tonight, and it's a 458-mile journey. See ya, hobbits! You folks are cute, but kind of short.

Miles to Rivendell: 1.3

More Battlestar Galactica stuff

This is a non-spoiler thread, and not specific to one version or another of the series.

solarbird and I were discussing tonight what we know about the Twelve Colonies, if we can establish (in either series) that all of the colonies are in fact planets. 'Cause twelve inhabitable worlds in one system? Does seem kind of odd--though Dara also has pointed out to me that scientifically speaking, we don't know really what's odd and what isn't for a solar system!

We got into talking about scenarios involving some of the Colonies being inhabitable moons around gas giants as opposed to planets themselves... and even a scenario where the system's star is in fact a binary. Dara says, as we have just re-watched the theatrical release of a BG movie that got glommed together from the first few episodes and it's fresh in her memory, that we do even see a double sun in the background of one of the scenes.

If the Colonies' system happened to have a scenario similar to what got played with in 2010, where Jupiter gets ignited into a second star, then this could give us a teeny tiny second star. Some of the worlds could be orbiting the primary, some orbiting the secondary. We also don't even know if all of the Colonies are supposed to be on what Star Trek would call Class M planets, do we? So we might have some Colonies on worlds where life there has to be maintained by pressure domes or whatever.

Also, I'm trying to figure out if we've had all of the Colonies named in the various episodes--again, of either series--and if so, what the proper spellings of the names are. I know that the planet names are derived from the twelve signs of the Zodiac, and I couldn't remember all of them--and I wasn't certain how you'd derive planet names from one or two of them, either. Such as, say, Cancer.

Discuss!