moviehole.net — Thank the gods. Just when you thought you were running low on BSG awesomeness…the DVD release of ''Caprica'' is coming at you on April 21st! To help gear up for the highly anticipated feature-length prequel to the series phenomenon, ''Battlestar Galactica'', I have got my sweaty mitts on some film clips from ''Caprica''
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Closed AccountMar 24, 2009
You don't get it. Modern technology is dependent on so many interweaving factors that should our civilization fall, we wouldn't have any hope to rebuild it. And then why bother? We develop stuff out of a need, not out of a whim. You may understand how a car works, without solid knowledge of materials and engineering principles you cannot rebuild one. You overestimate yourself, just like many kids of the "information age". You THINK you know, but you don't. You'd have to develop a battery, precision tools, metallurgy. And then you would need fuel, which you wouldn't have. And what for? To build a useless vehicle when you have plenty of animals that can act as transport with less resources?Basic sanitation? When you can build a latrine and dig a well you've got what you need. You don't need faucets or fancy tubs. Medicine? Most modern medicine is not possible without a pharmaceutical industry you have no hope to reproduce. Farming? It's not a market economy anymore, if you make enough to eat, you don't need any more.Scientific method? What do you do with scientific method when you don't have tools? If 40'000 modern day people were stranded for themselves, they would revert to stone age themselves. They would have no other option. Over time, over the generation, any technical notion would be forgotten because, quite simply, there would be no way to apply them in a world that has no need for them and no way to develop on them.I know this is Digg and everybody here thinks he's a genius who could rebuild a Space Shuttle using data from Wikipedia, but the sad truth is that the technological world you live in depends on a fragile net of interdependencies that can very easily be severed.
theword12Mar 24, 2009
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malexMar 24, 2009
Maybe that works, but I'm referring to the civilian life flashbacks of Caprica as well.Also, now that I've read the wiki, this new series takes place back when Admiral Adama was still in shortpants, so the age of the Galactica at the start of BSG doesn't enter into it.I'm just going to have to assume that most of fancy toys seen in the trailer are based on Artificial Intelligence that was later outlawed in the first war. Either that, or just accept that the retroactive continuity is going to thicker than a tub of Resurrection Goo left in the freezer.
flossdailyMar 24, 2009
@mtmankeith:You have a selective memory:Starbuck, alive or dead? She was a magical angel! It was God!Baltar's Imaginary Friend? It was a magical angel! It was God!The mysterious notes Starbuck had in her head? It was coordinates to Earth... . put there by God!The visions everyone had? It was God.
flossdailyMar 24, 2009
@Pixelante:You can take man out of the modern, but you can't take the modern out of the man.You should read Robinson Crusoe when you get a chance... it's a fairly believable story about how one man handles being stuck by himself, with very little by ways of tools or knowledge.Magnify that by 40,000 people all working together.Seriously, you think these guys are just going to give up toilet paper and soap?We *KNOW* that they won't give up alcohol, since half of the crew needs to be wasted all the time.And you want to know what you do with scientific method without tools? Uh, well, step one would be figuring out how to make tools, then, wouldn't it?
twistedwriterMar 25, 2009
Turning on your television and sitting on your ass for an hour doesn't require much devotion.
Closed AccountMar 25, 2009
In your dreams. In reality you'd be dead long before. You overestimate yourself, there is no way you could build a civilization from scratch that way, get over it.Remember what Lee Adama said? They were going to teach the locals about culture and laws - giving them language AND written language would have been some real advancement, same about laws. Civilization is built around laws before technology. They would probably have built some kind of civilization sooner or later. In 150'000 years there is enough time for civilization to flourish and be forgotten forever. In 150'000 years time, do you really believe there's going to be anything left of our own? Anyway, my point stands: you cannot rebuild a technological society when you lack much of the know how and the infrastructure that is vital for it. Accept it.
psyonic1Mar 25, 2009
After the massive letdown BSG turned out to be, I predict this will be known as Craprica.
rheaumeMar 31, 2009
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