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?

Comments

[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 ;)...