What do the transmissions in “The Hand of God” mean?
In “The Hand of God,” the Galactica picks up transmissions from the Apollo moon landing in 1969. They came up with two possible theories on the transmissions. The transmissions could have been a harmonic signal from something close by, such as the local star system, possibly sent by the Cylons. If not, the transmissions would have spent a longer time in space, from a farther system. The Galactica sent out a Viper patrol to investigate the local system, which passed by the first three planets. Starbuck investigated the third planet, where he passed what looked like Earth’s moon to find a dead planet. Hiding behind that planet was a Cylon basestar. The Viper patrol found five planets in fairly widespread orbits. The first planet was a giant, composed of 80% compressed hydrogen and 12% helium. The second planet was almost entirely composed of compressed carbon dioxide gas. The third planet had no atmosphere, just barren rock. Contrasted to our own solar system, our first four planets are
