Talk:Battlestar Galactica units

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[edit] Source? Anyone? Hello?

There is no source cited here, and there is no way to determine most of this from the muddled use of imaginary terms on the show. Can anyone explain where this came from? D-Clancy 17:00, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

It came from people watching the show - so it can never really be referenced. Unless someone finds a reputable website with unit descriptions, which is remotely possible. Fuzzform (talk) 20:16, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Microns

I don't think "microns" was used as a unit of distance. I remember dialogue in which someone on Galactica's bridge said something like "Vipers are 10 microns from contact with the Cylons...9 microns...8 microns...".

While this could be referring to distance, it could also be a countdown of time. Replace "microns" with "seconds" in that dialogue and you'll see what I mean.

Adding to the confusion is the fact that in real life "micron" really is a unit of distance, although an extremely short one.

ShawnVW 22:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BBS

I don't thing the vague, un-citaction-backed BBS reference is notable, so I'm going to remove it. --Bdoserror 17:01, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] different time units for the new series?

in one of the episodes (2004) i had seen an analog wall clock which looks the same as analog clocks in real life: it was divided to 12 units, probably hours. this seems to be contradictory to the hour and day units in the older series. besides, the reason we traditionally seperate the circle to 12 sections is the twelve months in a year; isn't this another contradiction or does anyone has a reasonable explanation for this?

The deimagining removed a lot of imaginative elements, time units being on of them.
Duggy 1138 15:19, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
The 2004 series commonly makes use of "morning" and "night", despite the fact that it takes place in the middle of nowhere and the characters haven't ever seen Earth. In a 2005 episode, someone mentions having lost 20 "cubits" - a monetary unit. Fuzzform (talk) 20:13, 6 April 2008 (UTC)