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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MarianLH: [QB] BX, first let me say that I didn't intend to come across as wanting you to "let it go" or "shut up" or anything of that sort, and I'm sorry if my post sounded that way. You argue your points both intelligently and politely, and I enjoy reading your posts. But I still don't agree. =) You did a thorough job of thinking out some of the variables, but wonder if you aren't overthinking the problem. The answer might be as simple as choosing a fixed position relative to some reference point, and telling a guidance computer to compensate for any deviation. The computer wouldn't need to be networked to the rest of the ships systems, it just needs some way of knowing the ship's position and the reference position, and be able to monitor changes and fire the ship's reaction control engines to compensate. It would be a busy little 'puter during a firefight, but it wouldn't need to be a networked one. The Galactica seemed to me to be stationary for this battle (relative to the nebula aperature, anyway; nothing's truly stationary in space), with the barrage perimeter shielding Galactica and the Galactia shielding the civilian ships. But I think the basic same idea could be applied to a ship under way. The guidance computer would just be told to compensate relative to a course instead of a fixed point. I'm confident that there's a counterexample for ever argument that the Galactica's lack of networked computers is implausible, but I wonder if there's anything to gain by arguing the point into the ground. Will I ever persuade you? Which brings me to the question I've been pondering all day: how do you (and here I mean generic "you," not anyone specific) decide whether something's plausible? How well do you have to understand [i]how[/i] something would work to believe that it can? What I mean is, If you feel that something is (or isn't) plausible, it might be because you're right, or it might be because you don't know enough about the subject. How do you tell? I recall when I first saw the movie [i]Braveheart[/i] thinking how unrealistic it was that Wallace just happened upon one of the great tactical innovations of the Middle Ages--using a tight pike formation to break up a heavy cavalry charge. Then I went home and looked it up, lo, that part of the movie was accurate. Stirling Bridge was the third battle ever in which that tactic was used. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [qb] Also, yes, I do realize that it's, like, 8:30 on a Friday night and that my entry above only serves to further the theory that therefore I have no life. [/qb][/QUOTE]You're in good company. =) Marian [/QB][/QUOTE]
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