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BSG inconsistencies (offshoot of BSG rascals thread)

mikeymikec

mikeymikec

Lifer
The episode where the people on Kobol have to be left behind because of the Cylons showing up, and Gaeta suggests networking the Galactica's computer systems to do a bit of combined computing to figure out where the rest of the fleet went, but it's a controversial idea because of the Cylon strategy of attacking computer systems with viruses, which is why Adama won't have networked systems on his ship:

Why are the non-networked computer systems any less vulnerable when seemingly the virus that the Cylon fleet transmits can seemingly be sent wirelessly? The cylons don't use this strategy at any other time against the Galactica except this episode.
 
Except that once they had (visually cabled) networked the systems together, then they were targetted by a virus attack.
 
It's a show man, and not exactly a hard sci-fi show either (not that such a thing even exists). I'll make up a plausible explanation: some computer nodes were "entry points" because they were connected to communication devices, radars etc. when not networked they did not allow access to other nodes, or lacked the computational power to run sophisticated viruses, but when networked it's different.
 
If you dont want your computers to be networked, then why bother with activating the wireless interfaces?

Here is the real kicker though - why not just turn off the wifi? You can have them networked via cable without needing the wireless interfaces enabled, so why enable the wireless interfaces?
 
Udgnim said:
no computer systems being networked implies they have no wireless receivers
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wrong.

Galactica received data all the time from exterior sources.

In addition to its mainframe computer, Galactica's primary computers include the FTL, Navigation, Damage Control, and Fire Control systems.

The mainframe ostensibly handles wireless communications as the C&C communicated with the Viper & Raptor pilots all the time.
 
Starbuck turns into a disappearing angel.

They have robots that come to life and grow biological versions of themselves.

Their ships can jump across space with a flash of light.

They have a woman space president.



And the thing you find too hard to believe is some little bit about viruses and networked computers?
 
silverpig said:
Starbuck turns into a disappearing angel.

They have robots that come to life and grow biological versions of themselves.

Their ships can jump across space with a flash of light.

They have a woman space president.



And the thing you find too hard to believe is some little bit about viruses and networked computers?
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LOL
 
With their computers networked together, if they're compromised, the entire battlestar is compromised. Every critical system. By separating their computers, each system would have to be compromised individually. Takes longer.
 
Ancalagon44 said:
If you dont want your computers to be networked, then why bother with activating the wireless interfaces?

Here is the real kicker though - why not just turn off the wifi? You can have them networked via cable without needing the wireless interfaces enabled, so why enable the wireless interfaces?
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That's what they did - networked the systems physically

The way I see it, only the Comms computer has a the ability to receive via wireless - input into all other computers is by physical means. When Gaeta networked the system, he must have thrown Comms into the mix for the extra computational power. The Cylons pinged it, realized it was networked and hit it with a virus.

What is really inconsistent to me, is how ALL of the systems were clean once they broke apart the network. The individual computer systems that got infected as the virus moved through the network, should've stayed infected.
 
Raduque said:
What is really inconsistent to me, is how ALL of the systems were clean once they broke apart the network. The individual computer systems that got infected as the virus moved through the network, should've stayed infected.
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They weren't - the next episode(s) dealt with the aftermath of it, including a Cylon virus that slowly gained control over all of their systems. The solution for that situation could be called into question though 🙂
 
This is the one unrealistic element in an otherwise completely believable and realistic show. A glaring oversight that should have led to the public hanging of at least one script writer imo.
 
silverpig said:
Starbuck turns into a disappearing angel.

They have robots that come to life and grow biological versions of themselves.

Their ships can jump across space with a flash of light.

They have a woman space president.



And the thing you find too hard to believe is some little bit about viruses and networked computers?
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Loved the show for 3 seasons, I still haven't managed to finish it and suspect I never will.
 
A lot of people found the ending a bit of a let-down, but it's not so bad that "I want those hours of my life back" or anything. I'm still planning on getting all the seasons on DVD.
 
Ancalagon44 said:
If you dont want your computers to be networked, then why bother with activating the wireless interfaces?

Here is the real kicker though - why not just turn off the wifi? You can have them networked via cable without needing the wireless interfaces enabled, so why enable the wireless interfaces?
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They were attempting to get valid jump coordinates as fast as possible. Normally, everything is done un networked, which is really slow but safe. However in their case, they needed to connect the mainframe, external sensors, DRADIS, jump drives, etc. There was no option to turn off the external wireless sensors, it was required to find correct jump coordinates and the networking required to feed that info to the mainframe and jump coordinates as fast as possible.

Without that network, any cylon intrusion would be limited to the external sensors, which isn't that critical.
 
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