Observations on BSG

Some thoughts going through my head on Battlestar Galactica (BSG), with a warning that if you have not watched all of the episodes to-date the observations below may contain spoilers:

1. Single point-of-failure: Are you kidding me? The Cylons have only one Resurrection Hub? The advancement of man (machine)-kind makes this simple mistake? Have they not designed a network or an application with near 100% uptime requirements before? Were the Cylons designed by the folks at twitter? (Sorry, it was too easy.) The end of next season will just be a picture of the fail whale.

2. I have been reading Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemna. The first part of the book is mostly about corn and how much we have grown to rely on it in the U.S. He talks about the different types of genetically modified (GM) corn and that just a minute amount of the corn grown in the U.S. now is for human food consumption. Very interesting book, but the connection to BSG is that methaphorically the genetically modified corn is like the Cylons. Humans created it, and we think we control it. We mostly can't tell by looking which corn is GM and which is not GM. Many friends have said they are buying all produce from Whole Foods or other organic grocery stores to keep away from pesticides and the dangers of GM crops. In the end, aren't we all genetically modified and isn't all corn genetically modified? Whether by humans or evolution, what we eat today is not what the original inhabitants of North America used to eat. The plants have modified themselves, the strongest or the ones with the best characteristics are the ones that were naturally selected to survive and multiply. It wouldn't surprise me that at the end of BSG we find the humans are in fact Cylons too. Remember, "this has all happened before and it will all happen again".