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Re: Battlestar Galactica on Mars?
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Mon, 11 Dec 2000 23:51:26 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Jon Furman writes:
Has anyone else noticed the distinct name sharing going on between life on
Mars and battlestar galactica, the most horrilbe, yet strangely
entertaining, space saga known to man?
The air tube hangar comes with minifigs  named Riegel, and Cassiopeia.
While the excavation searcher has a character named Vega.  I
hope that Starbuck, apollo and Adama are not next!

Nah, They're drawing from two different sources.  Life on Mars is naming
characters after stars & constellations; BG used names from classic Greek &
Roman mythology(1).  There's just a lot of cross-over, that's all.

James

1:When not naming them weird things, like Starbuck or Boomer or Boxy.



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  Re: Battlestar Galactica on Mars?
 
(...) hey, that's not weird! it's a classic reference!(1) J 1:Moby Dick (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
  Re: Battlestar Galactica on Mars?
 
Hm, where's John Ladasky when we need him? :) (...) Where do you think the stars got their names? :) Well, most of them, anyways; Rigel (not "Riegel" or whatever they transliter- ated) is, I think, Arabic in origin as many stellar names are. (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)

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Has anyone else noticed the distinct name sharing going on between life on Mars and battlestar galactica, the most horrilbe, yet strangely entertaining, space saga known to man? The air tube hangar comes with minifigs named Riegel, and Cassiopeia. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)

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