BSG: Baltar is a Cylon

[I, Mudd.]

It has been bugging me that Baltar seems to be the only person who has a Cylon in his head. Why doesn't the Chief? He loved and shared an intimate bond with a Cylon ... seems kind of weak to say, yeah ... but there's another Boomer around, so that doesn't apply.

When 6 died on Caprica, she was uploaded into the sleeper agent Baltar, to slowly awaken him ... why slowly? This must have to do with their "Plan", once the president ultimately dies of cancer.

Remember, Baltar led fleets of Cylons in the old show.

Where's my no-prize?

I, Mudd.

[Atrahasis]

I still don't get this difference between Cylons and humans....if they are so different, detecting a Cylon should be easy. If they are so close then what makes them different from a real biological lifeform, like a clone or an augment?

[zerosnark]

Thank goodness that they don't bother much with technobabble on this show: The basic science is so far off, it is beyond babbling about.

I too, can't believe that Colonial science is so bad that they can't be readily detected. And I can't believe Cylon tech is so good that they can make them undetectible.

Heck. . . .if they were that good. . .they could just Microwave the dang Galactica and be DONE with it.

[CaptainPierce]

Well, the outside would be melted away, but the inside would still be frozen... "Hot Pocket!"

Let's say that Colonial Technology is on par with early-21st-Century Earth, because on the whole (aside from things like spaceships with FTL drives) it seems to be. How perfect would a copy of a human have to be before we couldn't tell it was a copy? To put it in Star Trek terms, if a humanoid Cylon is something along the lines of V'Ger's Ilia replicant, a perfect copy, but mechanical (probably at least at the molecular level, if not the nanotechnological level) instead of biological, could we detect it?

[Atrahasis]

Baltar mentioned something about the base chemicals used in humans and Cylon clones being different, but even this hypothesis was blown away in one episode as he himself admits!

Logically I don't see how the Cylon clones can be different from joe average biological life-form, except that they are clones.

Maybe the series will eventually all be about whether clones have the same status as life-forms as non-clones.