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Subject: Re: SPACE 1999. - You can't defend it
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Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 21:19:41 EDT
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> > 
> > Is it true that a ship was reported at a range of 10 'microns' in
> > Battlestar pathetica ?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ian W Moor
> >  
> 
> Quite true.  I was watching with a group of highly-amused friends when we heard:
> "Captain, the alien ship is within 10 microns of us!"
> One of us immedieately cried,
> "Nobody inhale!"
>  
> Betsy Perry

Funny enough, I also said the same thing the first time I heard it.
10 MICRONS??? Their long range sensor must be a micrometer. However,
after watching several episodes I realized that a micron must be a
unit of time. They were simply estimating the enemy's distance from
them in time units based upon each other's velocity. I finally figured
out that a micron was approximately equal to one second earth time.

However, I was never able to figure out how much earth time was in
one of their centon's (sp?). I cracked up during one episode when a
character who was not part of the "rag-tag space fleet" was encountered
and asked the magic question (paraphrased) "What the hell is a centon?"
I still didn't hear a satisfactory answer, if I heard one at all.
Any comments? Need I ask? :-)

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