Caffeinated Dreams

Everything in this post will be heavy spoilers and speculation. So if you haven’t seen season 2, or more importantly last weeks episode… skip out. Or if you don’t care go ahead and read anyway.

The planet the lost Raptor crew accidently found didn’t look like Earth from space. Too cloudy to see any landmasses or seas that I could recognize. When Lee Adama began looking over photos taken near the surface though, I quickly noticed how alike it looked to present day Iraq — more specifically, the Tigris and Euphrates river. Also known as the cradle of humanity.

Compare:
Planetary photos from the Raptor crew
Google Map of the rivers

Skew the Google Maps one and it’ll look almost identical. The other possibility I thought it might have been is the Nile, because Lee said it was a delta. It has a sea or some other large body of water above it by the looks of it, but it could also be barren desert or fields. I’m torn between the two.

But their evaluations of the planet said life was only possible (without much difficulties) around the planets equator, because of the extremities of the poles. Is this the ice age?

So this is all what I thought of as I watched it. Then just a few minutes ago, doing something totally unrelated to sci-fi or geekness in general, I remembered the episode where they found the Tomb on Kobol. They learned Earth was in the direction of a nebula (of which I forget the name). The fleet has been heading in that direction since then, and about 3 or 4 months have passed since then I believe. Maybe more. This planet they just found is inside a Nebula.

So is this maybe Earth afterall?