Personally I think anyone who says they wouldnt have banned abortion in Laura Roslin’s position is Clearly undermining Baltar’s ability to manipulate, if he put his mind to it he’d get ban you to food.
He’s that awesome, you just wanna do stuff for him
#1 Baltar fan.
You know, I realized there has been some slippage on craaaaaaaaaaaaap. (that just doesn’t sound right). I don’t think there was one craaaaaaaaaaap in this 'cast, but there were definitely mentions of the word crap.
Keep up the craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap.
hey audra, check out the off topic thread, i started one for you.
You know, I don’t think Baltar was completely pulling that “in eighteen years the human race will be extinct” stuff out of thin air. Not that I think he was telling the truth, mind, but as Twain said, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics. I bet Baltar is pretty good at making that third variety say whatever he wants it to. For instance:
Baltar says that when he calculated it seven months ago, at the rate they’re going, the human race will die out in eighteen years. Seven months ago would not have been long after dozens of Galactica maintenance guys were spaced in the miniseries and the over 1,000 people on the Olympic Carrier were blown out of the sky in “33.” If Baltar is factoring in that on occasion, the Cylons are going to pick off a ship and kill a few hundred people in one fell swoop, he can make those population projections say whatever he wants, because who can predict how frequently disasters like the Olympic Carrier will happen?
Saying that the human race would die out at the rate they’re going now isn’t the same thing as saying the human race is going to die out. Going along with Audra’s point, it’s only been seven or eight months since the end of the world. A lot of people lost their whole families; they’re not going to want to start new ones so quickly. But that doesn’t mean that nobody is ever going to want to start a family again. Chief and Cally did even before they thought they could muster out and move to New Caprica. Billy strikes me as the kind of person who would have enough hope to want to start a family (poor Billy!). People’s feelings about wanting kids may change as they adjust to their new lives, but Baltar doesn’t mention that part.
btw, i didn’t read the whole thread, so sorry if this has been discussed, but did you guys say that they had a shot in razor where the catapult locks onto the front skid of a viper and it was a new shot? i’m almost positive that was the same shot from the pilot.
yup, just checked my copy of the bsg pilot, exact same shot from in the tube when they pan over the front & the latch-on to the catapult. recycled from pilot.
I’ll definitely be getting some GWC merchandise . . . I don’t understand the Alpaca thing though . . . what podcast was that in?
Yay! Someone agrees with my point! 
Chris I believe it was in podcasts 55 or 56 that the Alpaca thing got it’s start 
Pike might also be able to pinpoint it better for you… come to think of it I need to put the whole story in the FAQ.
Great, kid! Don’t get cocky.
I think the original was in ep. 50 (I’ve archived it, so I can’t check easily.) The last time that quote showed up was ep. 57.
There was a thread here early on that went into it, but searching for “alpaca” turns up a lot of hits on this site! Definately should be in the FAQ.
If Im not mistaken - High Hopes was also the campaign song for the Kennedy campaign - dunno why I know that, my parents hadnt even met back then
Cuz jumping into Hyperspace ain’t like dusting crops, boy. 
Without precise calculations we could fly right through an Alpaca or
bounce too close to craaaaaaaaaaaaaaap and that’d end your trip real quick, wouldn’t it?
Speaking of buying GWC merchandise, why don’t you submit the ‘official’ logo of the website (the watercooler in the BSG style crest) to cafe press? I think that would make a nice mug. I also nominate a wooden ship with a slash crossing it out as a good penultimate GWC logo. Just a thought…
This ship made the Kessel run in under 12 alpacas. We beat all the wooden sailing ships, but only came in penultimate.
<glances around quickly to check for admin banning him>
Baltar’s stats have the ring of truth to them, think about it.
First, a population needs a birth rate of 2+ per woman to sustain itself, which clearly isn’t happening in the fleet.
Second in 18 years, most of the elderly (where ever they are) will be dead.
Most of the women in the middle of their fertile years will be post menapausal.
There aren’t that many kids who will become adults.
Third, accidents, illness, Cylon attacks, will take their toll.
So, considering the time period that Baltar delivered his stats to Roslin, in 18 years the human race would be as good as extinct as there just won’t be enough of a fertile population or enough of a gene pool to keep it going long.
Also, that being said, this was the last podcast for me. Since I started listening with #18, I’ve only deleted one without listening to the whole thing first, and that was the podcast where chuck and sean spent most of the time ripping on Helo.
But I think this last one was the least of all podcasts. Just about every time Audra opened her mouth she was cut off and there was way too much pontificating and odd leaps of “logic” (the slippery slope of contraceptives, etc.) for my taste. I liked it better when things sounded like a conversation, but recently it’s been waaay too much chuck channeling bill o’reilly.
So, so long and thanks for all the alpacas…
ohhh kaaaay then
<raises hand>
I think I missed something. What was that middle part again about contraceptives?
…that Dude says “is” way too often. I’m just saying. And guys, no, the ruling was about abortion, not contraceptives. Is.