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We don't know how their machine bits are meshed in with their blood and guts bits. Maybe when a machine is part and parcel of blood and guts and the blood and guts gets a virus, it alters the way the machine runs. And if that machine is programmed to re-upload to the resurrection ship when the blood and guts bits die, then maybe the data it sends is all infected, and then that infection is going to pass on the bad juju to the new blood and guts. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Yeah.
A virus is (IIRC) the simplest form of life we know. So simple that some people don't consider it to be life at all. A virus that's out in the world not infecting something is essentially dead. A virus that encounters a living cell esentially replaces part of the cell's programming with its own. It basicly makes the cell ignore what it is supposed to do and just crank out more copies of the virus. You could look at a virus as being information - in fact, that's what it literally is. A virus is just a bunch of genetic material (DNA, RNA or whatever) that directly maps to strings of base-four numbers. So it makes sense to me that the virus would be included in the information that gets uploaded to the resurrection ship and used to infuse the mind of a new Cylon copy.
eta: OK, a virus is genetic material and a protein protective shell thingie.
I still don't understand why the humans quarentined themselves for a Cylon virus.
Because at that point, they didn't know it was a "Cylon" virus. There's no reason a disease couldn't infect both species, they were just lucky about this one.
Did the Cylons develop computer programming/software that can be written into organic, humanoid genes? If so, how does that meld with the mechanical components? And if so, how could a disease affecting that specific (human) organic system penetrate the metallic mechano-body of the centurions and the raiders?
We know that the raiders have biological components, so it stands to reason that the centurians would too. And it stands to reason that the biological components across all Cylon models would be built from the same basic Cylon genetic profile. (And RNA/DNA computers are on the verge of not being science fiction anymore, so yes, I can believe that their organic components contain the majority of their "programming.")
I still don't buy a biological disease being transmitted via ressurection. If I remember having a cold, it doesn't mean I automatically catch it again.
[eta: And one more nitpick -- encephalitis is a collection of symptoms, with many and varied causes, not one virus. So a species-wide "immunity" to it is just silly.]
Anyway, if the BSG-verse is in the same time as ours, then the 13th Tribe reached earth roughly 1000 B.C. Did anything exciting happen then? Anyway, that would make the Greko-Roman stuff somewhat consitent....
In terms of the eastern Mediterranean civilizations, the Trojan Wars are supposed to have happened around 1200 BC.
the Trojan Wars are supposed to have happened around 1200 BC.
It probably would have been cooler with spaceships anyway.
Especially if the spaceship is shaped like a giant horse.
[eta: And one more nitpick -- encephalitis is a collection of symptoms, with many and varied causes, not one virus. So a species-wide "immunity" to it is just silly.]
Yeah, but it's often caused by viruses. If there was
a
virus, carried by rats, that caused
Lymphatic Encephalitis
::jazz hands jazz hands::
the species could have become immune to it.
And if the phrase "lymphatic encephalitis" wasn't a contradiction in terms to begin with.
(If it's lymphatic, it's affecting the lymph system. If it's encephalitis, it's inflammation of the brain. I'm sure there are viruses out there that can do both, but apparently the BSG producers don't watch enough House to have the name of one handy...)
Yeah. I think they probably threw 'lymphatic' in there to shore up their point that there couldn't be a cure, because it affected the immune system, and yet it was also an encephalitis because...it was.
I'm a little confused by this week's issue. Are they planning to run until the Cylons get bored with killing them? I don't know if there's an "enough" that they can kill that'll make them safe, not if they need Earth too. The weight of M.A.D. might do it, but you're not fighting human psychologies here.
Well, not until they're infected--Sharon's totally gone, Caprica's fighting it, and Deanna just got a touch of the fever.
I think they probably threw 'lymphatic' in there to shore up their point....
That, or it rhymes with 'emphatic'.
