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Man, I have so many problems with the BSG "finding the map to earth in the stars" scene it's not funny. I'm willing to let the "seeing every constellation on the elliptic at one time" thing slide, because it would be a crap map without a 360 view around the planet and whatever. Although that does make Starbuck's "we're standing on Earth" line complete bullocks.

I'm almost tempted to let the "referring to the Lagoon Nebula as M8" thing slide. Because hell, it is the correct Messier catalog number for it, and maybe people started out on Earth, before they moved to Kobol, and our extremely esoteric catalogue of "~100 things that are not comets" could have stuck around the scientific literature or something.

But seriously guys. Couldn't you even get the constellation right? M8 is in Sagittarius, and all of the Messier objects in Scorpius are a completely different class of objects. Two minutes on wikipedia could have saved your arses a whole lot of embarrassment.

Labels: BSG, Cylon-Cat, finding the way to Earth