[tanknetter]

2. Make sure we have space travel so the human race can survive..

Should be noted that such capability (not just space travel but also FTL capability) was voluntarily surrendered when the Colonials and skinjob Cylons deliberately shipwrecked themselves on "our" Earth by sending their entire fleet into the Sun.

According to the show, 150,000 years have passed and "new humanity" have yet to regain anything even close to what was lost.

[Yossarian]

According to the show, 150,000 years have passed and "new humanity" have yet to regain anything even close to what was lost.

Yes, but our nuclear wars have been quite limited - and only in the last 64 years - compared to what the Colonial / Cylon societies had been going through, time after time.

So looking at it from their perspective, that's 149,936 years of no annihilation, at the cost of a harder and shorter lifespan.

[visualops]

Should be noted that such capability (not just space travel but also FTL capability) was voluntarily surrendered when the Colonials and skinjob Cylons deliberately shipwrecked themselves on "our" Earth by sending their entire fleet into the Sun.

A loose end: Adm. Adama has his Raptor that Mme. Pres dies in, and he lands where he buries her and presumably builds his cabin and lives out his life. What happens to his ship they never say.

[MarkL]

According to the show, 150,000 years have passed and "new humanity" have yet to regain anything even close to what was lost.

And we're a lot closer to "AI" than we are to interstellar space travel, which is what caused so many problems in the first place... Remember, that's why the "old earth" was destroyed before the "humans/cylons" could be warned by the "Final Five." It could easily all happen again!

Mark