Welcome to Classic Battlestar Galactica Week here on Republibot, and our super-special edition of Retrospeculative TV, the column in which we take 30 year old piece-of-crap TV shows that no one cares about, and treat them as if they were brand-spanking-new piece of crap TV shows that no one cares about. It was only a matter of time until we got to the original Galactica, now wasn’t it? Last week, we set this up, and now we get into it:

Just occured to me - gosh knows why - that some of you might be interested in what I'm reading these days.
- "Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick" by Lawrence Sutin
- Odysseus
- "Conquest of Gaul" by Caesar
Which sounds stodgier than it really is. Also, I'm going through one of my periodic and unpredictable Chris Isaac moods, and listened to "San Francisco Days" pretty much all day yesterday, and "Forever Blue" pretty much all day today. Man, that's a good album.

Yesterday’s successful launch of the Falcon 9 and its Dragon mock up reaching orbit is a technical triumph for Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX). The company has proved that space flight can be done cheaper and faster than the current NASA contractor cabal.
Elon Musk the company’s CEO believed that it was important that man colonize space and thought that it would never happen if left to governments and the big aerospace contractors. In 2002 Musk started the company with 100 million of his personal money.

Van Kleis turns up in New York, claiming diplomatic immunity for himself and his "Ambasadors" (The Pack), as he's the leader of the nation of Abysus, a principlality somewhere in Europe, presumably very near The Netherlands, given his name.

There’s a degree of parallelism between the three-part series premier and this three-part season finale. We’ve got most of the classic SG1 team turning up - Jack, Daniel, Sam - we’ve got the Lucien Alliance, we’ve got people traveling to the ship and things not going exactly as planned, and we’ve got problems with the air supply, and we’ve got yet another Icarus-like planet blowing up. Daniels’ even a cameo on a DVD, just like in the premier.

CHAPTER FOUR- Monday, Monday (can't trust that day).

Tomorrow is the day, between 11am and 3pm SpaceX will launch the Falcon 9 carrying a stripped down Dragon capsule into orbit. Through no fault of theirs SpaceX and the Falcon 9 have become the face of the government’s new space policy. As the first private company to reach the test stage of a booster that will help replace the Shuttle as America’s cargo hauler to the ISS SpaceX is feeling the pressure.

I was supposed to spend all day working on editing this MASSIVE interview I've had sitting in the can, waiting to go for six months, but then I got kind of intimidated and frightened by the scale of the task, so instead I decided a more effective use of my time would be to learn how to play "This Time" by INXS. I watched the video, here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0UALkqY8xY and thought "Gosh, they're all so young!

It was a beautiful night, the moon shining bright, and before I plagiarize a perfectly good Eagles’ song, let me tell you: All Ray Meadows did- the one innocent act that started it all- was this: He looked out the window. His wife was fast asleep. She didn’t see a thing. Ray saw it all. Well, he saw the one thing he wasn’t supposed to see. He saw exactly what it is that goes bump in the night.

Telepathy is a much overused trope in Science Fiction. It's always been popular, but I think it peaked in the '50s and '60s, when a lot of people seemed to have a lot of interest in it, possibly because of the rise of drug culture, which can make you feel superhuman. (I'm told. Despite my waward past, I never actually took drugs.