The Path to BSG Enlightenment...

[caffey]

... is riddled with curiosities, apparently.

Have you ever wondered how come Galactica, or the Fleet in general, has a seemingly endless supply of paper? I have. It's like there are short on everything essential. But paper? That they've got in abundance.

Is it Friday yet?

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[ufp13.livejournal.com]

No, you aren't alone in your wondering about that. *lol*

[caffey.livejournal.com]

Good to know. I'd be shocked, shocked I tell you, if that weren't the case. *g*

Do you realize that in your icon MM looks a lot like Hilary Clinton?

[ufp13.livejournal.com]

*LOL* and this one kinda looks like Angelina Jolie, I've been told. :D

[caffey.livejournal.com]

Kinda, yes. But your "huh" icon greatly resembles Hilary. I may never recover from the shock. :D

[ufp13.livejournal.com]

*LOOOOOOOOOOOOL*

[caffey.livejournal.com]

Glad you're having fun, dear. *g*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

*snickers* Every time I wonder something like that, someone will pop up on the show and start babbling about algae. It happened a few episodes ago where they're drinking coffee. I was mid "HOW do they have coffee" thought when someone mentioned it was algae coffee. :D

[caffey.livejournal.com]

I briefly entertained that thought but I would expect the paper to have a green tinge if that were the case. *scratches head*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

One of those handwave-y things, I guess. :D

[caffey.livejournal.com]

Er, I'm not following you. Help? *lol*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry. A "handwave" is something used in Doctor Who fandom a lot. The show is practically built on plot holes, and so any time you run across something that doesn't make sense (which is frequent), you give it a wave of your hand and move on. :D

[caffey.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like that. Will use it in the future. :D

[laurajo.livejournal.com]

lol, one of those things we're not supposed to think about I would imagine! Gotta love the little curiosities.

[caffey.livejournal.com]

I've just been educated on the handwave thing which, apparently, applies here. *g*

[x-dana.livejournal.com]

Still have to finish to watch the show (well, maybe still have to start *cough*, I'm not gone far the first few episodes),
but anyway paper is very easy to recycle, if you throw it in the right way,
and you can easily suppose that if they have technology to fly into the space, they can also have the technology to recycle paper...

Anyway, very smart observation ^^ , and probably it would even make an intersting subject for an episode...
or maybe it was simply that between the ships that escaped with them there was also a paper-mill ship *shrugs*

[caffey.livejournal.com]

You're right about the recycling, of course. But, a lot of that paper goes into reports and stuff; those would have to be filed and thus can't be recycled. Otherwise what's the point in keeping files?

Now paper-mill ships occurred to me as well -- a thought which I dismissed almost immediately. Having a flying fuel-refinery is one thing and it's already a stretch for it to conveniently have survived the attack; having a paper-mill would be pushing it. ;)

[x-dana.livejournal.com]

Well, then maybe there are a lot of pointless records, that often don't get filed.

I mean... They should have to use a lot of free space on the ship to store so many reports;
space that could be a lot more usefully employed in other activities, then for a simple archive, or for routine reports.
So actually you can think that the 10% of the paper get stored and the 90% gets recycled.

[caffey.livejournal.com]

I know you've got a point there. It just feels... wrong somehow, mostly because they make such a big issue out of everything else. You know? ;)

[x-dana.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know... even if I still have to watch the show ;)...

[shayenne.livejournal.com]

There was a line in that ep where they ran out of food, and Adama says to Tigh something about them eating paper, and Tigh says, "No, there's a paper shortage" and they both crack up hysterically.

(Just watched Rapture.... OMG!OMG!OMG! I love it!)

[caffey.livejournal.com]

Right, I remember that. :D

Okay, refresh my memory, please. Having used the marathon approach to watching this show, single episode titles tell me nothing. It's just one big continuous story for me.

[shayenne.livejournal.com]

Rapture is the second part of the one called something like Eye of Jupiter (where Chief goes wandering off on the algae planet and finds the Temple of Five. Rapture is the one where Kara crash lands and Dee has to go and get her, and then they all get back to Galactica and Baltar gets dragged in a bodybag, and is locked up in a cell, and OMG, how GOOD was Callis in that one! Brilliant, brilliant stuff! And he's still thinking he's a cylon, and Helo shot Athena-Sharon and she downloaded and came back with Hera and OMG, OMG it was BRILLIANT!!