[GWHH]

I watch BattleStar Galactics since it first started.  BSG has human forms Cylons (also called skin jobs) in the series.  Are much stronger and faster than normal people.  This season the the female skinjobs been showing off there strength a lot more.  Much more than in the previous seasons.  I wonder how much stronger and faster, than normal humans they are?

Any ideas?

[AlexG]

As I recall, without working up a sweat one of the Number Sixs once pinned Baltar to a bulkhead, with his feet dangling off the deck.

No doubt the scene was staged as a tip of the hat to She-Hulk, cuz she said, words to the effect: Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like when I get angry.  8)

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[GWHH]

Thanks for reminding me of that.  Was that not when Baltar was on the base ship a couple of seasons ago?  But than again Baltar not that big of guy and he never works out either. All brain no muscles.  And in real life Number 6 is 5 foot 10 inches tall.  So she pretty strong to start with also. 

Speaking of Number 6.  You every notice she the only one who "hulks out" and use her superior strength on the normal humans?  Expect, for when the final 5 women.  The President aid keeps beating up other women.  Maybe that a "design defect" for the 6.  They have anger problems. 

You also notice that Boomer.  Never uses her superior strength.  She uses her brain and superior stimina to get the job done. 

[AlexG]

To my recollection of the series, thus far, I don't think we've seen any overt examples of comic-book hyper-superstrength – i.e. lifting a Viper off the ground and tossing it away.  As clones, they were designed in mind as infiltration units, much like the Terminators, to better blend in and understand their creator/enemy in order to destroy them.  Undoubtedly are enhanced to some degree, but still within plausible Human limits.  Therefore, I'd rate them on a similar level of the New Race Draka from S.M.Stirling's sci-fi novels, if you're familar with those books.  Or if not, another similar example would be the Augments of the Eugenics Wars (i.e. Khan) from Star Trek: Enterprise.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[GWHH]

I am fimilar with the Star Trek Khan reference, but not the other one.  According to the offical star trek info guide the Augments are this much better than normal humans:

These Augments were five times stronger than the average person, their lung efficiency was 50 percent better than normal, their heart muscles were twice as strong, they possessed remarkable agility, and their intelligence was double that of normal Humans

I think the cylons-humans are not as strong or fast as the Augments.  As for intelligence.  There brains are basically organic computers.  So who knows about that?

I think he cylons would want them to be better than normal humans but not at the expensive of brain power. Rember, computers what to be better than normal humans.  Not super humans.  Just better.

How much better are those others guys than, than normal humans?

Richard.

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