FRAK I used uploaderx, now I have to fix all the images
Where was Kara Thrace?
'Cause it sure as frak wasn't here!
Evidence
Exhibit A: Starbuck's testimony
02:40
Starbuck: I've been to Earth.
Apollo: Earth?
Starbuck: Big blue oceans, fluffy white clouds...
18:28
Starbuck: When I came to I was orbiting this planet; its
yellow moon and star match the description in Pythia.
I took these pictures* in orbit.
*The relevant will henceforce be known as Exhibit B as seen below.
18:37
Starbuck: The star patterns match what we saw in the Tomb of Athena.
19:14
Starbuck: I remember a giant gas planet with rings. I remember a flashing triple star...and a comet.
Exhibit B:
of the planet she claims is Earf.
Analysis:
Welcome to Earf? Maybe not. We know that the Viper gun cameras can shoot color photography; we've seen this in Resurrection Ship, Maelstrom and even in this most recent episode. Why would she take these monumental pictures in grayscale? Why does she neglect to bring evidence of her "big blue oceans"? Perhaps she's merely a dingbat (she is blonde).
The moon does not appear that size from Earth orbit. In fact, it looks the same damn size it does from the surface. The moon is a quarter of a million miles away and even geosynchronous orbit is only just over 22 thousand miles up. This leads to one of two possibilites.
1. If she is indeed in orbit of Earth and that really is the moon then she is in orbit of a pre-historic Earth long before our species had ever graced the surface. According to wikipedia (rofl, shut up):
As a result, some of the Earth's rotational momentum is gradually being transferred to the Moon's orbital momentum, and this causes the Moon to slowly recede from Earth at the rate of approximately 38 millimetres per year...
I call on the mathematical expertise of mobiousstrip to calculate how many millions of years ago it would have to be for the moon to appear that size.
There is some evidence to suggest that we are indeed looking at our beloved moon.
One can almost make out Mare Crisium (yellow) and Mare Tranquillitatis (blue) but the problem is that the relevant lunar oceans are
not properly aligned. Even at maximum latitudinal libration we should still be able to see Mare Serenitatis but we simply can't.
So if that
is our moon, something's weird.
side note: this is fucking RAD
9.6mb gif of lunar libration
2. That is neither Earth nor Luna. She was never in our solar system at all. Information has either been manipulated or completely fabricated both in her mind and in the Viper's sensor suite. Notice how the image highlighted in the photographic analysis is not the same one shown in the main image? Why is this for, huh?
Note that she saw a "giant gas planet with rings". Well, woop-de-frakkin-do. Most people would assume that she's referring to Saturn. The problem with that assumption is the Jupiter also has rings. As does Neptune. In fact, all of the gas giants in
our solar system have rings - with Saturn's being the most notable, of course - and it follows that the same would hold true for gas giants in other solar systems. So far the majority of planets discovered in our galaxy have been large, Jovian planets it stands to reason that Starbuck could have easily been looking at a ringed planet in a nearby solar system.
The other problem with her testimony is that she saw "a flashing triple star". Not a rarity; in fact most stars in our galaxy are either binary or trinary systems. Our is a relative anomaly (though some kooky astronomers think we
do have a binary system
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The issue with her testimony is that even our closest triple-star system, Alpha Centauri, appears as a single point of light and even its status as a trinary system is disputed since Proxima Centuari is a bit more than a short drive from Centauri A and Centuari B. It's unlikely that any other trinary systems would be visible and distinguishable to her with the naked eye as well as highly unlikely that a Viper has a powerful enough telescope to do so
and she just happened to point it in the right section of sky.
We know that whatever caused her sudden reappearance also resulted in some sort of manipulation of her memory and we have evidence that her equipment - namely, the Viper itself - was manipulated so it stands to reason that all of her imagery could be completely and utterly fake.
There is one thing that should be noted, however. She is
not a Cylon. Not only has this been confirmed by the Almighty Ron himself but we have a small piece of evidence that lends credence to the idea that she is not, has never been and is still not a Cylon.
Notice this bit:
One thing we know is that the Colonial society only has A, B and AB blood. O type blood seems to be a uniquely Cylon occurance. Remember that in Epiphanies the really weird thing about Hera's blood that Cottle couldn't explain was a lack of antigens. This wouldn't be strange to any Earth doctor since nearly half of our population is O-type but for some reason this confounds Cottle.
Granted, the idea of O-type blood being able to cure cancer is absurd and RDM admitted it was a plot device in order to avoid the dreaded technobabble that he despises but the point remains that Hera's lack of antigens is a strange one in Colonial society. This tells us that if Starbuck was a Cylon it's unlikely her blood would be type A, B, or AB. Now why they haven't thought of this as a method of Cylon detection I'll never understand. leright Maybe that's not tobacco Cottle's been smoking.
Next up, analysis of the Baltar = Jesus theory.
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