Nevermind I remembered the episode wrong. The actual line was that the galaxy is a pretty barren place, but Tigh was being asked to speculate by Roslin on something which really shouldn't be his area of expertise.Lonestar wrote:okay, and?
There is no need to speculate; the episode has Tigh mention that there are five systems in range which have planetary bodies in them and that is based on what their telescopes picked up.Lonestar wrote:We don't know what the route they were taking looks like. That they were unaware of the existence of Kobol being so close tells me that there may be some kind of "empty space", a bunch of planetless stars, all why trying to go to the most likely systems to do quick inspections in case the Cylons are lying in wait because they know that they are out of water.
The scene just bugs me because Roslin calls Tigh to speculate on something when he's not even an astrophysicist so wtf would he know about the odds any of those systems would have water in them.
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Yes that would have been boring in comparison.Aaron wrote:It would have been a pretty boring episode if 30 minutes after the hold explodes they cruise up to a comet or something, probably spouting statistics about how many there are and just fill up.