Recent content by Lars_J

Wow, it looks amazing!

Perhaps it is just me, but I don't see how seamless branching is even possible with the TE's and EE's - not without really changing one of them. FOTR Examples: - The shire intro; Different scenes altogether in different order, different Frodo-Gandalf dialogue, different music arrangement...

Was it not pretty clear that we only were shown very quick glimpses of the battle? It was not the main focus of the episode. I would not draw any tactical conclusions from that. This was not like "Hand of God" were the battle was given 100% of our attention, either through Viper shots or from...

For the vast majority of shows, this is quite common. Especially if your premiere episode is promoted heavily. For the first couple of episodes the viewer numbers fall until a "stable" viewer base is found. If the show is lucky, that base viewer number is high enough to justify the show. If not...

I must say that I am very surprised by some of the complaints in this thread. I though the film was highly enjoyable, and it seemed to be warmly recieved by the audience. B+/A- from me!

I agree with Nick - Having a separate election for a vice-president is not that outlandish, nor unprecedented.

I hestitate to revive the overly technical discussion about the show's FTL, but I thought this might be of interest. In a new behind-the-scenes video on SciFi's site, the visual effects supervisor (Gary Hutzel) confirms the theory that some of us have speculated about the show's FTL travel...

Yes, it was a good episode. I did not see Baltar as vice-president coming until a minute or so before she asked him. And the Caprica story-line just got a lot more interesting...

Thrust vectoring. :) (Example for Aircraft - Rocket engines can be aimed in similar ways)

Well, the Vipers do appears to have two ways of changing directions: 1. By gimballing/vectoring the main engines (See Apollo's frog-leap after hovering in "The Hand of God") - The typical way rockets orient themselves. 2. Using manuevering thrusters to rotate the Viper on a dime. (but not...

My personal imaginary explanation :) about that is that the engines aren't actually producing thrust all of the time - they are just idling "hot" - for quick reaction time. One kind of propulsion that culd theoretically provide the kind of thrust-to-weight ratio that Vipers have demonstrated...

Nope, morning sickness can actually happen within days of conception. I have experienced this. (Or actually, my wife experienced it) ;)

I'm not a physicist by any means, but... Actually, it is quite different than B5's "jumps". In B5, one could view the hyperspace jumps as "intersecting" (as you put it) a normal space point with a hyperspace point, and jumping between them. They would then be in "hyperspace", a separate...