h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

>The props people were a bit "iffy"

In some ways the "iffy"ness of the props was a good thing. Everything wasn't bright shiny technology as in some other science fiction shows I can mention. Its more realistic if the technology is a bit tacky.

>And whatever happened to the rest of Delenn's chin from the pilot episode...?

There was some idea of having Delenn be male (although played by Mira) and only become female at the end of season 1. Hence the different Delenn in the pilot.

>Why did Veer's surname change between series one and two?

I don't know but his first name stayed Vir throughout.

Zathras

>The thing that capped B5's supremacy is Newtonian motion

But when the star furies launched shouldn't they have launched tangentialy rather than radialy?

Zathras

Can you define them there terms?
BCNU - Crescent

I agree with Crescent's confusion - in the context of leaving the spinning B5, "radially" would mean coming out at a direct tangent to the surface of B5, hence "Radially" and "Tangentially" are the same thing...?

>I agree with Crescent's confusion - in the context of leaving the >spinning B5, "radially" would mean coming out at a direct tangent to >the surface of B5, hence "Radially" and "Tangentially" are the same >thing...?

My mistake presumably. A tangent is the line that just touches the outside of the circle. A radiue is the line from the ventre of the circle to the circumfrance.

As B5 is rotating the star furies should launch sideways (i.e tangentialy) whereas they launch straight out (which I call radially).

Actaully the comment was mainly posted to smoke out members of one of the uk babylon 5 newsgroups where this question involved several months and huge pages of ASCII art to discuss.

Zathras

>On the realism front, notice that in episodes where they show a >large, internal space on the station, such as the baseball field >where Sheridan does his batting practice, that there is inevitably a >huge, arched ceiling representing the outer hull above them. Fine, >except that if the station is rotating to simulate gravity that >means everyone is standing on the ceiling...

Isn't the huge curved ceiling usually the other side of the station (I know it is in the gardens). I.e. it is the floor and the ceiling. So yes everyone is standing on the ceiling it is just that to them it looks like the floor.

Zathras

(Standing starts outside C&C)

The reasons the stars don't move is very simple. JMS did not have access to the computer technology to handle a moving star field so whilst aware of the problem he just ignored it. There are some scene with moving stars in the show.

Or the star trek answer. They had attached coriolis compensators to the station.

Zathras