Warning: Here be possible spoilers.

The Thirteenth Colony / Tribe travelled to the new tribes’ galaxy via something called “sub-luminal.” Since it’s not the show’s typical “FTL” (faster than light) travel, it took them several thousand years. If you recall, the idea of FTL travel is supposed to be instantaneous travel. This, we can assume, involves something the science fiction universe calls “subspace.”

The thing about real space travel is that you become out of synch with the rest of the Universe or at least your point of origin and destination. When NASA sends out a space shuttle, they discovered that when the astronauts returned, they are a few miliseconds to a few seconds younger then the rest of the world. This happens even at the relatively low speeds we use.

Now imagine going faster and approaching the speed of light. That fraction of a second of time travel those astronauts experienced is multiplied exponentially. They’d be out of synch with the rest of the Universe. This could be by hours, months, years, or thousands of years depending on how long they travel.

According to shows like Star Trek, to counter the time distortion caused by accelerating towards the speed of light, one has to form a field or a bubble that will surround your vehicle. This bubble should, in theory, keep you within the same time as the rest of the universe. They call this “Warp speed” in the Star Trek, “hyperdrive” in the Star Wars Trilogy, and FTL in Battlestar Galactica.

So all that aside, since the Galactica is on the brink of hull breech and utter destruction, the fleet will probably have to switch to sub-luminal travel. This will cause them to be thousands of years out of synch with the rest of the Universe again and they’ll probably head back to the colonies.

By this point, they probably would have come up with a way to deal with John Cavil.

By the time they reach the colonies, the Nuclear fallout from the Cylon attack would have dropped down. The twist will probably be something like the survivors have reformed the planets and or have developed artificial intelligence again.

Why do I think this? They always show a clip at the beginning of the show of people travelling through some sort of wormhole, pictured at the top of this post. That looks like sub-luminal travel to me.

That and I also think that Starbuck is either Daniel or Daniel’s son.

What do you think?

Stephen’s picture.

The picture in question.

Stephen’s picture of House.

Stephen’s also on Conan right now as it’s his last week on.

So much awesome.

I finally updated this blog and made a post. Please enjoy this picture of Gaius Baltar I drew.

Moving pictures.

I was reading through yesterday’s 24 when I saw a picture of Mr. David Basi (aka Mr. Scandal). One person came to mind, the butler with a foot fetish from Mr. Deeds.

I want this. Somebody get on that.

Yeah, I’m a big nerd/geek.

I’ve never been so impressed with Japanese animation until now. Ergo Proxy was pretty thrilling and the art style was just… great. It’s from the same guys who made Samurai Champloo so you’ve got the Cowboy Bebop experience somewhere in there as well.

It’s set in the distant future after a nuclear holocaust in a domed city named Romdeau. The dome is there to keep the people and robots (autoreivs) protected from the harsh post-nuclear atmosphere but the whole point of the story is: is the dome really there to protect us or to imprison us? Everyone in the city is paired up with an entourage class autoreiv which is supposed to keep everyone in check and safe but when a virus breaks out, the entourages start acting out on their own. That and there’s a monster loose in the city.

Ergo Proxy is just cool, it’s one of those end of the world scenarios but with a touch of thriller and mystery. The story starts off with a fight scene and the action continues on for several episodes. Eventually the protagonist, Vincent Law, is setup for a crime he didn’t commit and then the story really takes off.

Eventually the characters find out that the world outside the dome isn’t really as bad as they had been told. The thing is, since people are grown rather than born, there are problems with their DNA. The Earth may be recovering but the human race as it is now, is not. There are many domes but as Vincent, Lil, and Pino search out for Mosque, they discover a horrible truth.

“I think therefore you are.” Twenty three parts, hoping for a second season, I highly recommend it.

A few weeks back, I sent Chuck Palahniuk, the author of some awesome novels like “Fight Club” and “Choke,” a letter and a small sampling of some of my writing.

It pretty much comprised of drunk ramblings, bar stories, and some mildly coherent sentences. Chuck, if you’re reading this, you’re a classy guy. Thanks for the presents and the letter.

As you saw from the picture above, I got a package in the mail today from Mr. Palahniuk. I can’t remember everything that was in the box but the really, really cool items were: the autographed CDs, picture, nametag, and letter. There was random candy and seeds as well. Pictures below! Yes, I know some are stretched. Just click them.

Did I mention the severed finger?

I’m a little confused as to what the actual differences are but whatever. I’m getting the “Adult Version.” Hermione on Snape action? Mebe.