{"id":1053,"date":"2012-09-30T10:58:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T15:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2012-09-30T10:58:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T15:58:57","slug":"aircraft-carriers-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft Carriers in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Battlestar Galactica has other issues. One thing I have never understood is why the humans didn&#8217;t lose halfway through the first episode. If information moves at the speed of light, and one side has a tactically useful FTL [faster-than-light] drive to make very small jumps, then there is no reason why the Cylons couldn&#8217;t jump close enough and go, &#8220;<strong>Oh, there the Colonials are three light minutes away, I can see where they are, but they won&#8217;t see me for three minutes?<\/strong>&#8221; C.J. Cherryh&#8217;s novels address this a bit with the idea of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectrho.com\/public_html\/rocket\/spacewardetect.php\">longscan<\/a>,&#8221; where you predict where they are going to be, but you might not know for some period of time what they actually did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/09\/28\/aircraft_carriers_in_space?page=full\">Aircraft Carriers in Space &#8211; By Michael Peck | Foreign Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battlestar Galactica has other issues. One thing I have never understood is why the humans didn&#8217;t lose halfway through the first episode. If information moves at the speed of light, and one side has a tactically useful FTL [faster-than-light] drive &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1053\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}