Asimov: Battlestar Galactica for instance, started off with twenty to thirty minutes of space battles which looked exactly like air battles in World War I. You could swear that the space ships were surrounded by air the way the maneuvered. One felt it was unworthy. SWA Magazine: The Vipers in Battlestar Galactica look like jets. Is this a realistic design for the future? Asimov: It is as if people in the 1880s were writing fantasy stories about airplanes of the future and they had the pilots lean back at the wheel and yell "whoa" and the airplane came to a halt in mid-air.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Asimov: Battlestar Galactica for instance, started off with twenty to thirty minutes of space battles which looked exactly like air battles in World War I. You could swear that the space ships were surrounded by air the way the maneuvered. One felt it was unworthy. SWA Magazine: The Vipers in Battlestar Galactica look like jets. Is this a realistic design for the future? Asimov: It is as if people in the 1880s were writing fantasy stories about airplanes of the future and they had the pilots lean back at the wheel and yell "whoa" and the airplane came to a halt in mid-air." in the context of "Isaac Asimov, "Southwest Airlines Magazine." (1979) "An Interview with Isaac Asimov" Phil Konstantin, Southwest Airlines Magazine, 1979." to mean that wisdom is timeless.