and, it simply could be that they just don't know how to run the ship well enough yet. I think the ship's AI should be intelligent enough to at least query the shuttle, or vice versa (something like "What's up? Where ya going, dog?", or "Hold up! Slow your jets so we can hook up!") But perhaps it's all assumed that human operators know what they're doing when taking out a shuttle, and thus, they'd need to initiate some kind of distress code to make the ship rescue the shuttle. Since they can't even turn off that down hyperspace countdown clock, I guess they don't know how to make the ship recognize an emergency like that.
Do we know why or how the first shuttle broke away? And why does a ship that immense only have two shuttles anyway? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 6:57:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] SGU this week I'll go with the latter. At the end of the second ep, that shuttle did break away from Destiny. There might be a preset for shuttles going off on their own, or the AI might be failing, or the AI detected the shuttle trying to return and just didn't give a shot. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:16:34 +0000 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] SGU this week i think the question might be in reference to why the Destiny didn't slow down or change course to meet the shuttle? Is the AI so broken it couldn't detect its own shuttle out there in space desperately trying to catch up, or did the designers simply not built that into the OS? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 3:48:09 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] SGU this week Simple physics, for that. Matter of relative speed and acceleration, combined with scalar directions. (Rough translation -- a Yugo's not going to catch a Porsche in that sitch.) "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:58:38 -0700 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] SGU this week That brings up another thing that bothers me. Why the shuttle couldn't catch up to the main ship? Is there a beckon not turned on or something? Or is it stuck on autopilot? On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Martin Baxter < truthseeker...@hotmail.com > wrote: Colonel Young said, at the end of the ep, that he thought that Rush knew this was happening all along, primarily because he refused to insist to be onboard the shuttle. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:27:58 -0700 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] SGU this week Shouldn't they have received a warn message that the power was going out? On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Martin Baxter < truthseeker...@hotmail.com > wrote: Keith, my immediate thought as to why the Destiny "allowed" herself to get so low on power is that she *didn't*. I don't think she planned on having dozens of people onboard, pushing every button in sight, at that moment. The refueling stop was probably an emergency one, its routine stop probably some time in the future. One thing I can't wait for is when they're able to explore the engine room, to get a look at that old FTL drive and that power core. Probably cold fusion... (licking lips) "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:38:16 +0000 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] SGU this week Well, you're right, but the gravity thing is one of those things we have to overlook for scifi shows because of money. Every Trek, BSG, etc. series has this inherent flaw. They simply don't have time/resources/money to show the truth of gravity fading so that the crew has to float around. That's been done in at least one Trek movie, but most scifi shows just ignore that truth. And who knows: maybe the Destiny has some kind of gravity plating that doesn't require a power source? My biggest issue with the show was why the Destiny allowed itself to get so low on power? all the ship does is travel across space--why didn't it stop and refuel before this point? Surely it doesn't need a particular type of star? Does it matter if a star is yellow, blue-white, red, etc? That made no sense, nor did Dr. Rush not guessing the ship's purpose: I figured out what it was doing as soon as it sped around the gas giant. Were they implying that the ship is storing the star's radiative power, or actually brining in some of its plasma? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" < hellomahog...@gmail.com > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 1:32:56 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] SGU this week I am having problems with the logic of this show. If you loose power in space shouldn't you loose life support, and gravity too? You should freeze before you bake. Also, if you are taking the most vital supplies you take a cd player, and a book but not enough rations? -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! 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