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why 3 for one fighter?! orginal bsg

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  • 16-02-2005 6:58pm
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    magick
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    Can anyone answer , why it took 3 cylons (in the orginal bsg) to fly one of their space fighters?
    Considering their using cpus and have quicker reaction times than the humans, why 3?! were the other 2 to look out the windows?


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    Bazookatone
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    One hypothesis is that Cylon fighters are the equivilent of F-14 Tomcats: big, complex, long range and with a large arsenal. The colonial vipers are more like F-16 Falcons or (my favourite fighter plane) the Swedish Saab Gripen: small, simpler aircraft with a shorter range designed primarily for defence i.e to be launched at short notice, engage the enemy and land again, without travelling over a huge distance to get to the fight.

    By this logic, a cylon crew could be composed of a pilot, navigator, and weapon officer (or whatever you want to call them), while colonial vipers only need pilots, since they don't have to navigate far, and they would be co ordinated from the Battlestar. This explains the need for three Cylons.

    Of course, it could be that they just thought it looked cool.


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    Garibaldi
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    Besides, do you remember what real-world computers were actually like in those days? I'd say they thought they were being pretty damn clever with having *only* three. :D


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    Fenster
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    Its because they run Windows. :p


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    po0k
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    They were a load-balanced cluster.


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    stevenmu
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    Modern fly-by-wire systems tend to use 3 (or more) cpus to control the flight surfaces, all 3 do the same calculations on the same data and in case of any discrepancies in the results any 2 can override the 3rd. So an F16 is in fact being flown by 3 cpus with one pilot to tell the cpus what to do. Of course that doesn't explain why they bother putting actual cyclons in at all instead of just a bunch of cpus, but as someone pointed out, it looks pretty cool.


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    madrab
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    a wizard did it


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    TerrorFirmer
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    Garibaldi wrote:
    Besides, do you remember what real-world computers were actually like in those days? I'd say they thought they were being pretty damn clever with having *only* three. :D

    Lol!

    Cylon fighter running windows 3.1 OS with a muscle-packed 66mhz processor and 8mb ram....

    Light years beyond anything the pathetic colonial forces could muster. :eek:


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