The Science of Battlestar Galactica

by Di Justo, Patrick

  damage caused by

  electronic eavesdropping and

  conception, Cylons and

  conduction

  Congreve, William

  Conoy, Leoben

  intelligence and

  physics and

  constant bearing/decreasing range (CBDR)

  convection

  coordinate systems, defining

  Coriolis Effect

  Cornell University

  Costanza, Brendan “Hot Dog,”

  Cottle, Dr.

  Cro-Magnons

  cryovolcanoes

  Curtis, Heber Doust

  cyanobacteria

  Cylon Raiders

  Cylons (Cybernetic Lifeform Node)

  Centurions

  Cylon Indistinguishability Conjecture

  defined

  First Cylon War

  as fundamentalist religious terrorists

  genetic research and

  human cancer cure and

  Humanoid Cylons

  as humans

  intelligence and

  memory and

  as men vs. machines

  nuclear weapons and

  physical makeup of

  physics and

  planets and

  Raider Cylons

  resurrection by

  “silica pathways” and

  cytosine (C)

  data transfer

  Dawn

  “Daybreak, Part I” (Battlestar Galactica episode)

  physics and

  technology and

  “Daybreak” (Battlestar Galactica episode)

  Dead Earth

  astronomy and

  defined

  nuclear weapons and

  planets and

  stars and

  technology and

  death, Cylon resurrection and

  deception techniques

  declination

  decompression sickness

  Deep Space 1,

  Deimos, water and

  Demetrius

  Democritus

  dendrites

  denial jamming

  Denys, Jean-Baptiste

  depression

  destroyers

  digital television broadcasting

  Dione, water and

  directed energy weapons

  distance

  astronomy and

  atoms and

  black holes and

  navigation and

  radial distance (r)

  radio waves and

  Special Theory of Relativity and

  See also DRADIS (Direction, RAnge, and DIStance)

  diuretics

  DNA

  defining life and

  genetic research and

  humanity and

  Mitochondrial Eve and

  pharmacopeia and

  Dogon

  dogs, intelligence and

  dopamine

  Doral, Aaron

  Douhet, Giulio

  DRADIS (Direction, RAnge, and DIStance)

  electronic warfare and

  EM radiation and

  Drake, Frank

  Dualla, Anastasia

  Duke University

  Dune (Herbert)

  Eagle Nebula

  Earth

  Cylons as men vs. machines

  defined

  as depicted in Battlestar Galactica

  Moon of

  navigation and

  physics and

  water and

  Earth humans

  Colonials and Cylons as humans

  defined

  See also humanity

  Earth II

  Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley

  Eick, David

  Eight (Cylon model)

  Cylons as men vs. machines

  memory and

  “silica pathways” and

  802.11n

  Einstein, Albert

  black holes and

  General Theory of Relativity (GR)

  Special Theory of Relativity and

  electromagnetic (EM) radiation

  electromagnetic spectrum (See also electronic warfare (EW))

  technology and

  electronic eavesdropping

  electronic intelligence (ELINT)

  electronic warfare (EW)

  electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM) and

  electronic countermeasures (ECM) and

  electronic detection and

  electronics in space environment and

  ELING and SIGINT

  E = mc2

  emergent intelligence

  Empire Strikes Back, The

  Enceladus

  endorphins

  energy

  E = mc2 and

  EM radiation and

  England, rocket history and

  “enhanced radiation weapons,”

  enthalpy

  enzymes

  “Epiphanies” (Battlestar Galactica episode)

  escape velocity (ve)

  ethyl alcohol

  eukaryotes

  Europa

  European Space Agency

  event horizons

  “Exodus, Part I” (Battlestar Galactica episode)

  “Exodus, Part II” (Battlestar Galactica episode)

  physics and

  technology and

  exoplanets

  expressed genes

  external pulsed plasma propulsion

  extraterrestrial life

  Eye of Jupiter

  “Face of the Enemy” (Battlestar Galactica webisode)

  fallout

  Faraday cage

  “Farm, The,”

  faster-than-light (FTL) jump drive

  black holes and

  hyperspace and

  space warp and

  teleportation and

  wormholes and

  fatigue, stimulants and

  fear, memory and

  fiber-optic technology

  electronic warfare and

  “silica pathways” and

  fibrinogen

  “Final Cut” (Battlestar Galactica episode)

  Final Five

  genetic research and

  physics and

  “silica pathways” and

  See also Anders, Ensign Samuel; Foster, Tory; Tigh, Colonel Saul; Tigh, Ellen; Tyrol, Chief Petty Officer Galen

  firestorms

  First Cylon War

  “Flesh and Bone” (Battlestar Galactica episode)

  “Flight of the Phoenix” (Battlestar Galactica episode)

  Food and Drug Administration

  Forbidden Planet

  forehead dot experiment

  Foster, Tory

  Cylons as men vs. machines

  “silica pathways” and

  “Fragged” (Battlestar Galactica episode)

  frame-dragging

  France, rocket history and

  free radicals

  French Academy of Sciences

  frost lines

  F Type stars

  furosemide

  Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University

  Gaeta, Felix

  physics and

  technology and

  Galactica (battlestar)

  artificial gravity and

  computer viruses and

  as Jupiter-class battlestar

  mass of

  nuclear weapons and

  physics and

  physics and water

  rocket technology and

  galactic clusters

  Galactic Coordinate System

  galaxies

  Battlestar Galactica (1978 television series) on

  Milky Way Galaxy

  Galileo Galilei

  gamma rays

  Ganymede, water and

  gas planets

  Gemenon

  General Theory of Relativity (GR)

  artificial gravity and

  explained

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bsp; Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation and

  Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM, MIT)

  genetics. See also DNA

  genocide

  globular clusters

  Goddard, Robert

  Goldilocks Zones

  Gooch, Stan

  GPS

  gravitons

  gravity

  artificial gravity and

  G

  Law of Universal Gravitation

  microgravity and

  star life cycle and

  Graystone Industries

  Great Filter

  Great Red Spot

  Great Spiral Nebula (M31)

  Greeks (ancient), on “galaxy,”

  G Type stars

  guanine (G)

  Guardians of the Ancient Wisdom (Gooch)

  Guild Heighliners (Dune)

  gunpowder

  habitable zones, stars and

  half-life, radioactivity and

  hallucinogenetics

  “Hand of God, The” (Battlestar Galactica episode)

  HARM (High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile)

  Head Baltar

  Head Six

  heat

  heat sinks

  nebulae and

  nuclear weapons and

  star life cycle and

  transfer

  “Heavy Raiders.” See Raider Cylons

  Heliobacter pulori

  helium

  helium flash

  stars and

  Herbert, Frank

  Hertzsprung, Ejnar

  “He That Believeth in Me” (Battlestar Galactica)

  Holtzmann Effect (Dune)

  “Home, Part II” (Battlestar Galactica episode)

  “home-on-jam” capability

  homing

  Homo neanderthalensis

  Homo sapiens

  Hooker Telescope

  “hot Jupiters,”

  H-R Diagram

  Hubble, Edwin

  Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

  Human Genome Project

  humanity

  Colonials and Cylons as humans

  definitions

  Earth humans

  meaning of

  Mitochondrial Eve and

  sentience and

  Humanoid Cylons

  as humans

  intelligence and

  physics and

  human rights

  hydrogen

  atoms and

  hydrogen alpha (Hα) filter

  rocket technology and

  hydrogen sulfide (H2S)

  hyperspace

  ice giant planets

  about

  Maelstrom

  ice moons

  Identification Friend or Foe (IFF)

  imagery

  intelligence and

  memory and

  immunoglobulin A/B

  India

  rocket history and

  Tata Institute

  inertia

  infertility, Cylons and

  Infineon Corporation

  infrared (IR) light

  infrared (IR) radiation

  insects, intelligence and

  intelligence

  brain and

  neuroses and

  sentience and

  International Bureau of Weights and Measures

  International Space Station (ISS)

  International System of Units

  interrogation drugs

  inverse-square relationship

  Inviere, Gina

  Cylons as men vs. machines

  physics and

  technology and

  iodine-131

  ion engines

  Ionian Nebula

  ionizing radiation

  ions

  iron ferrocyanide

  “island universe” hypothesis

  isotopes, nuclear weapons and

  jamming

  Joshi, Pankaj S.

  joules

  JPs

  Jupiter

  gravity and

  Great Red Spot

  lightning and

  moons of

  Pioneer 10 (NASA) and

  water and

  Jupiter-class battlestars

  Kai-Feng-Fu

  Kaula, William M.

  Keilkeya, Billy

  Kelly, Kevin

  kerosene

  kilograms, mass measured as

  kinetic energy

  kinetic energy weapons (KEWs)

  kludge

  Kobol

  astronomy and

  beginning of life on

  Cylons as men vs. machines

  technology and

  Korean War, nuclear weapons and

  K Type stars

  Lagoon Nebula (M8)

  Lampkin, Romo

  Landsteiner, Karl

  Large Hadron Collider

  Large Magellanic Clouds

  lasers

  Law of Universal Gravitation

  Lawrence Livermore Laboratories

  “Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II” (Battlestar Galactica episode)

  physics and

  technology and

  learning. See also brain

  length

  Lenni Lenape

  life

  defining

  extraterrestrial

  water and

  light

  speed of light

  star life cycle and

  visible light

  lightning

  liquid fluorine

  lithium

  logic bombs

  Lorenz-Fitzgerald Contraction

  Louis XIV, King of France

  LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)

  luminosity, of stars

  Luna, water and. See also Moon

  lymphocytic encephalitis

  Maelstrom

  planets and

  ring system of

  “Maelstrom” (Battlestar Galactica episode)

  magcelerators (mag cats)

  magnetic induction

  main sequence stars

  Manhattan Project

  Margulis, Lynn

  Mars

  as depicted in Total Recall

  Goldilocks Zone and

  Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)

  probe journeys to

  stars and

  water and

  mass

  artificial gravity and

  of atoms

  E = mc2 and

  force of gravity and

  M

  of moons

  radiation and

  Special Theory of Relativity and

  star luminosity and

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

  mass spectrometers “mass specs,”

  measurement

  mass and

  metric, defined

  as subjective

  “Measure of Salvation, A” (Battlestar Galactica episode)

  medical routines, “silica pathways” and

  medication. See pharmacopeia

  Méliès, Georges

  Melina (Total Recall)

  Mellorak Sickness

  memory

  data transfer and

  intelligence and

  Mercury

  mass of

  water and

  meridians

  Messier, Charles

  methane (CH4)

  metric measurement, defined

  microgravity

  microwaves

  “middle-aged stars,”

  Milky Way Galaxy

  astronomy and

  navigation and

  Millenium Falcon (Star Wars)

  Miller, Stanley

  mind, defined. See also brain

  minimum viable population

  Minsky, Marvin

  mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)

  Mitochondrial Eve

  “M” numbers

  Mongols

  Moon


  General Relativity and

  gravity and

  Special Theory of Relativity and

  as tidally locked

  moons

  ice moons

  orange moon

  Triton

  Moore, Ronald D.

  appearance in show by

  on Cylons as men vs. machines

  on FTL Jump

  “Moore’s law,”

  on technology

  “Moore’s law,”

  morpha

  morphine

  “Most Recent Common Ancestor,”

  motion

  physics and

  Special Theory of Relativity and

  Mount Wilson Observatory (Los Angeles)

  Moxipan

  MRI scans

  Mt. Toba, Sumatra

  mucins

  mucus

  muons

  mutations, radiation and

  naked singularity

  NASA

  astronomy and

  Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program

  Cassini

  Dawn

  Deep Space 1

  on defining life

  Pioneer 10

  rocket technology and

  SETI

  space shuttles

  on water

  natives, defined

  navigation

  Celestial Sphere

  defining coordinate systems and

  Galactic Coordinate System

  triangulated positions and

  Neanderthal Genome Project

  Neanderthals

  nebulae

  color of

  stars and

  technology and

  Neptune

  gravity and

  water and

  neurochips

  neurons

  memory and

  “silica pathways” and

  neuroses, intelligence and

  neurotransmitters

  neutral propellant gas

  neutrinos

  neutron bombs

  neutrons

  New Caprica

  physics and

  planets and

  Newton, Sir Isaac

  NGC 5866 (galaxy)

  nicotine

  nitrogen

  “No Exit” (Battlestar Galactica episode) Cylons as men vs. machines physics and

  non-nuclear electronmagnetic pulse (NNEMP) generators

  norepinephrine

  nuclear energy

  Chernobyl nuclear reactor

  nuclear-pulsed propulsion

  nuclear thermal engines

  nuclear weapons

  “nuclear winter,”

  plutonium and

  nucleic acids

  nucleons

  nucleus

  “one atmosphere” rule

  “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” (Einstein)

  open cluster star systems

  Ophiuchus

  opium

  optical navigation (OPNAV)

  orange moon

  orgasm, Cylons and

  origin, in coordinate system

  Orion (M42)

  Outland (film)

  Oxford University

  oxygen

  planets and

  rocket technology and

  ozone layer

  Papert, Seymour

  parallel universes

  particulate radiation

  “Passage, The” (Battlestar Galactica episode)