How long is a centon

Anything shorter than that would seem almost unworthy of Adama's comment about the dinner's taking so long. Then again, when Starbuck is going into the void to find Apollo, he says he's going to give Apollo "about a millicenton" to voice any objections to his plan, and But yet in part 2 of Lost Planet, he says "switching off you for a microcenton to scan ahead.

Re: Original length of the centon Post by johnnybear » Wed Dec 05, pm Normally I'd have said a Centon was a minute considering how Richard Hatch used it on the show but I'm not really sure the writers knew either! I would guess at it being anything between one and three minutes perhaps?

Now if they used it "correctly" on set after the scripts were written, rewrites, goofs, etc. Re: Original length of the centon Post by johnnybear » Thu Dec 06, am I always got the jist that a centon was originally meant to be a minute but different writers had different ideas on that like you say which left us none the wiser!!!

The Babylons devised a numbering system around twelve 12 and sixty Hence, we have twelve hours in a half-day and sixty minutes in an hour. Well, imagine our surprise when we learned that metron, like so many other words used in the show, is a real Greek word. It means, measure. And it serves as the root for the French word metre, meter. Hour comes from the Latin word hora, so good luck getting an centar from that. But another word, ycentar, seemed to stand for a year. Or, more properly, it must have stood for what we could call a Standard Colonial Year — most likely a Kobol Year.

It is highly unlikely the Twelve Colonies were supposed to have similar orbital distances and periods from their various stars. The Twelve Colonies survived more than six thousand ycentars before the Cylons destroyed them.

That means Kobol itself was even more ancient and may have been home to a human civilization for as much as ten thousand ycentars. Glen Larson and John Dykstra may have had a Bible for their show which explained all the concepts, but they never bothered to share it with the news media of the s. Science Fiction fans found themselves groaning at the obvious paucity of intellectual comprehension among the general media writers of the day who struggled to cope with terms such as centar, ycentar,centon, and centon.

Those of us who paid attention to what the characters were doing and saying were able to decipher things fairly easily. The concept of the ycentar was more interesting, though.

Common sense dictated that the twelve colonies, each apparently orbiting its own star except for a reference to twin worlds in one system , must have had their own orbitational and rotational periods. In the end, we had to conclude that the standardized days and years and centons probably related to Kobol.

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