When you compare humanity’s current evolutionary state to our closest monkey’s uncle, it is clear we are far superior. Our brains are so large we only need to use 10% and often use much less. Every year some Olympian or Marathoner runs faster, jumps higher, or swims more synchronously. To your average orangutan, we must seem like the types of Super Hominid into which they’d all like to evolve. For those of us already at the summit of Earth’s evolutionary trail, where is there to go but up, as in “up, up, and away!”?
It may be that Cylons, while clearly superior to humans in every conceivable way, lack the ability to imagine the next great steps in humanoid evolution and the amount of spandex required.
4. Why do the Cylons want to breed half-human/half-Cylon children? Why have children at all?
Any parent who has been on the receiving end while changing a diaper, who has been involved in any school science project, or who has attempted to sound moderately coherent while explaining the facts of life to a pre-pubescent human child would wonder why Cylons wouldn’t design their offspring to skip right to adulthood. Would-be Cylon parents will soon discover that it is not possible to annihilate the remainder of the human race while coordinating a schedule of after-school activities.
5. Finally, who is the fifth Cylon? What’s the deal with Starbuck? And what about Earth-that-was?
I personally believe that Starbuck is Amelia Earhart and Colonel Tigh is Jimmy Hoffa. The fifth Cylon is not Ellen Tigh, he's Howard Hughes. Or maybe Walt Disney's head. Wait. Didn't Disney invent animatronics?
That's it! The Cylons are Disney World Character refugees, who fled Earth when Lawrence Lessig finally got Congress to approve term limits on corporate copyrights! First, they evolved from singing bears and cavorting pirates into “toaster-heads,” now they swing full circle back to humanoid approximations of perfection, but they have not been able to completely eliminate the desire to slavishly cater to the pre-adult offspring of their creators.
If this “Magic Kingdom Galactica” hypothesis is true, we should be on the lookout for an upcoming Battlestar Galactica episode that would be a dead giveaway: “Cylons On Ice.”
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1 - Matt
I'd take binary to mean one God. As in 0 represents nothing, or no power running through a circuit or bit of information, and 1 as full power, or "everything" (there being only 2 states it can be in). Therefore it would be a choice between the void and God. So they would be monotheistic, or at least have those 2 choices. To them 0 would not be a logical coice as it's nothing, and clearly the Universe is not nothing, and more than 1 god would also not be logical, as there can only be 2 binary states as described above, so 1 God it is. Maybe. This assumes they run on a binary system though.