Phil Clandillon saw a recent post about sparebots, and was moved to show his own work.

Asked about his technique to make the animation, he responded with great detail and technical clarity:

It was a very DIY operation. I've been doing these interactive flyers for around 6 years in my spare time for Sancho Panza, who are a house music sound system / promoter (most famous for their annual stage at Notting Hill Carnival) over here in London, UK. I typically make the flyers over the course of one or two evenings so that quality can be a bit variable, but the dancing electronic parts man turned out well. In 2006 the theme for the year's flyers was that Matt and Jim from Sancho would send me a piece of music, and I would base the flyer on it. The February tune was "Over and Over" by Hot Chip which is a repetitive electro-pop number. I had the idea for the dancing man made from components based on this.

The process of realising it went something like this:

I dug around in the drawers at home for all the electronics bits I could find (also a work colleague at the time helped out by donating some more vintage bits, such as those used for the head and legs) and made up the character on a piece of bread board.

I then need to photograph him in the various "frames" in order to create the animation. The biggest challenge was mounting the camera so it pointed down at the breadboard and so it didn't move around between shots. Also lighting was a problem as the character need to be reasonably evenly lit so he wouldn't throw shadows.

I used a combination of an open frame from a filing rack (think a cube with no sides), and a plywood wine rack with a seven inch reggae record stuck over one of the holes. The type of seven inch with the middle taken out turned out to be exactly the right size to poke the camera lens through. I used two pillowcases and three desk lamps to make a rudimentary light tent. I then moved the character gradually through his dance moves, taking a photo at each step. One problem was that pressing the camera's shutter button caused the camera to move, putting the animation out of alignment, so I used the camera's self timer instead, resetting it for each shot.

I then made the final adjustments to the characters position by layering up the frames in Photoshop, before animating the result in Flash.

I have a website but it's a bit out of date at the mo (shoemaker's shoes and all that) - you can see more e-flyers in my archive. Interestingly the artwork for the website is also created from electronics. I had a friend who can solder better than me help me make up an LED logo of the tag I used to spray when doing graffitti as a kid. I then took it out on the street in London and photographed it in a variety of locations. These photos went on to form the backdrop for the website (my gf is standing out of shot holding a 9V battery on the end of two wires!).

Phil and colleague Steve Milbourne also recently did this Excel spreadsheet ASCII music video for AC/DC from a few weeks ago.

We're a digital creative team and we're very inspired by the maker scene, so a lot of our ideas involve getting our hands dirty with hardware and software. We're also daily readers of the Make: Blog!

Thanks Phil. Keep up the great work!

How are you changing the way you look at the things in your life? When you look at a pile of junk, what do you imagine? What do you make when nobody is looking? Pass along your ideas in the comments, and add photos to the Make Flickr pool!

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I've been pretty intrigued by Hilary Swank's collection of projects recently. She's picked up time as Amelia Earhart, been a backstabbing best friend, a lawyer inspired by her wrongfully convicted brother, and a woman who is French, or fat, or something. And now she's getting stalked.

Variety reports that she's headlining a new flick called The Resident. The film, which heads into production next May, follows a doctor (Swank) who moves into a Brooklyn loft, just to find out that her new landlord is a stalker. The project is labeled as a thriller, so I guess that means peeping holes in the walls, and perhaps a hidden camera or two? It's amazing how a hole in the wall is seem as pervly-charming when it's teenage boys and a shower, but creepy if its a landlord. Anyhow... Antti J. Jokinen wrote the feature (which he will direct) with Robert Orr, and the pen behind the lovely S&M fest Secretary, Erin Cressida Wilson, whipped up a rewrite.

Now the only question that remains is how Swank will handle it. She's a unique package -- one that can shock up an amazing performance, but also wrap herself in some cinematic crap. Will this be another Lakeview Terrace or something more notable? This could go either way.

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div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"As a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/459963"President-Elect Barack Obama/a looks for ways to deal with a shattered economy and an ongoing war on terrorism, security experts are urging him to pay attention to something that has a big impact on both: The nation#39;s growing -- and fragile -- cyberinfrastructure./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Potential adversaries have increasingly turned to a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/337713"cyberespionage/a as a way to find a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/462477"weaknesses in networks/a run by the U.S. government and the nation#39;s a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/451294"critical infrastructure providers/a ./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes#39; a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/securityadviser/?source=fssr"Security Adviser blog/a and a href="http://www.infoworld.com/newsletter/subscribe.html?source=fssr"newsletter/a, both from InfoWorld. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Meanwhile, retailers increasingly dependent on the Web for commerce have launched online transaction portals that rely on a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/412163"Web applications that are easily targeted/a by digital miscreants. Many of those features are increasingly accessible via popular social networking sites like a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/458070"Facebook/a ./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Realistically, most of the necessary improvements must be devised and deployed from within private companies and government agencies. But a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/467864/subject/Barack+Obama"Obama/a is in a unique position to lead on this issue and inspire others to fix the security holes, experts say./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"With that in mind, a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/"CSOonline has compiled/a a five-point list of areas Obama should focus on, based on feedback from security pros./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"strong1. Secure the Web appsbr//strongWith more and more people doing their shopping online, attackers will continue to ramp up attacks against the Web applications customers use to make purchases. Companies that allow sensitive customer data to fall into sinister hands face a world of hurt in terms of reputation and future business, and so Obama should use his bully pulpit to demand better security./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;Obama [and his IT security advisors] needs to focus on securing Web applications that have largely been ignored by previous administrations,quot; says Mandeep Khera, chief marketing officer for security vendor a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/467864/subject/Cenzic+Inc."Cenzic/a . quot;With millions of hacking attempts on our government infrastructure every day and thousands of successful attacks against corporations through the Web site, government needs to step in and create stronger regulations to enforce the security of our Web sites.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"strong2. Wipe the dust off of older regsbr//strongThat a security vendor would favor more regulation is of little surprise. But security regulations are very much on the minds of those polled -- and not the potential new regulations, either. Instead, some experts would prefer Obama put pressure on subordinates to revisit longer-standing regulations that are in need of a makeover./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Former Cisco/WebEx CSO Randolph Barr, now working in the security division of Redwood City, Calif.-based financial application provider Yodlee, is among those who believe the Federal Information Security Management Act ( a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.csoonline.com/is_fisma_compliance_for_state_local_governments_too"FISMA/a ) is outdated, for example./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;The regulatory requirements for DIACAP/FISMA 805, etc., are catered more towards systems and software and not updated to reflect the innovation of other companies when it comes to selling software as a service and cloud computing, making it very difficult for an organization to be successful in partnering with the government,quot; Barr says. quot;Some time should be taken to revisit these regulatory requirements.quot;/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Sharing Barr#39;s concern about FISMA is Krag Brotby, a security architect who has worked for Xerox, TransactPlus (a JP Morgan subsidiary) and the Singapore government. He says FISMA compliance is in a dismal state of affairs in critical agencies, and a lack of training is part of the problem./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"quot;FISMA compliance remains poor in some of the critical agencies and, coupled with substandard personnel proficiency, would seem to pose an unreasonable level of risk to the country,quot; he says. quot;Pushing ahead with training and certification of government security personnel should take priority as well as mandating FISMA compliance.quot;/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"strong3. Demand better security trainingbr//strongBrotby#39;s concerns highlight another weakness on the minds of many security professionals -- training, or the lack of it. Brotby has encountered what he calls a quot;significant percentage of IA (information assurance) practitioners and managers in the government and armed forcesquot; that haven#39;t been adequately trained to provide a reasonable level of security./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Barr listed education as one of his big concerns, and hopes the Obama Administration will push for security to be emphasized from middle school to college and beyond./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"quot;From the perspective of what is taught in college to what is taught down at the middle school to high school level, in my opinion we don#39;t have a lot of programs that teach individuals the history of security and what we should be doing to better protect ourselves,quot; he says./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Since kids are increasingly learning via computers and the Internet, an education on the dangers of cyberspace and ways to secure oneself should be a natural part of the lesson plan, he says./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"strong4. 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Barr wants the Obama Administration to revisit requirements for restricting U.S. companies with a presence in China and other countries./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"quot;The concern cited in most cases [of cyberespionage] is stolen intellectual property and malware embedded in source code,quot; he says. quot;This is a danger regardless of where the code is developed, and cybersecurity should focus less on the geographic location of developed code and more on the controls in place to reduce the likelihood of a successful attack.quot;/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"In other words, focus on building a stronger wall around the sensitive data so that protection is assured regardless of where the bad guys are attacking from./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"strong5. Give someone control (and make them accountable)br//strongThe final -- and arguably most important -- item Obama should focus on is giving government security officials some real power and a tougher code of accountability to go with it./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Security industry veteran a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/410513"Richard Stiennon/a made the point in a a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/34777"letter to Obama that ran in Network World/a , a sister publication of a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/467864/subject/CSO+Magazine"CSOonline/a ./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"The first of his 10 suggestions is to issue and executive order establishing responsibility for cybersecurity with quot;real negative repercussions for those who fail to prevent breaches.quot; For civilians this means being fired; for the military this means court marshal, demotion, and expulsion for serious security breaches, a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/467864/subject/Richard+Stiennon"Stiennon/a wrote./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"quot;Do not allow the blame to be foisted off on contractors. The only way that security gets implemented is if someone#39;s job is on the line,quot; he continued. quot;This goes all the way to the top, of course. Whoever you appoint to replace the current assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications must understand that security breaches imply failure and those responsible will be replaced.quot;/pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"strongThe Official Obama Planbr//strongThe following is a list of the incoming Obama Administration#39;s cybersecurity goals, taken from a target="_blank" href="http://change.gov/agenda/homeland_security_agenda/"Change.gov/a , the official site of the President-Elect. Does it reflect some of the suggestions listed above? We welcome feedback in the comments section of this article./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"-- Strengthen Federal Leadership on Cybersecurity: Declare the cyber infrastructure a strategic asset and establish the position of national cyberadvisor who will report directly to the president and will be responsible for coordinating federal agency efforts and development of national cyberpolicy./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"-- Initiate a Safe Computing Ramp;D Effort and Harden our Nation#39;s Cyberinfrastructure: Support an initiative to develop next-generation secure computers and networking for national security applications. Work with industry and academia to develop and deploy a new generation of secure hardware and software for our critical cyberinfrastructure./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"-- Protect the IT Infrastructure That Keeps America#39;s Economy Safe: Work with the private sector to establish tough new standards for cybersecurity and physical resilience./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"-- Prevent Corporate Cyberespionage: Work with industry to develop the systems necessary to protect our nation#39;s trade secrets and our research and development. Innovations in software, engineering, pharmaceuticals and other fields are being stolen online from U.S. businesses at an alarming rate./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"-- Develop a Cybercrime Strategy to Minimize the Opportunities for Criminal Profit: Shut down the mechanisms used to transmit criminal profits by shutting down untraceable Internet payment schemes. Initiate a grant and training program to provide federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies the tools they need to detect and prosecute cybercrime./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"-- Mandate Standards for Securing Personal Data and Require Companies to Disclose Personal Information Data Breaches: Partner with industry and our citizens to secure personal data stored on government and private systems. 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FQM once again brings us the latest episode of The Universe, ive watched a few episodes of it and loved it and this one has a pretty interesting title name . The beginning of history starts here. There are 50 billion galaxies in the universe. 95% is still uncharted. This series examines the mysteries of everything, from black holes to how our sun functions. Is our planet as insignificant to the cosmos as a drop of water is to the ocean? This series will investigate the uncharted frontiers of space and explore the possible existence of life-supporting worlds beyond our own.

As man moves to colonize the cosmos, the realities of sexual relationships and reproduction need to be addressed. Probe the physiological, psychological and cultural challenges of sex in space. From the sex act
through birth, look at how the extreme environments of space exploration might effect copulation, conception and developing human tissues, as well as how issues around sex might impact the emotional lives of astronauts. Get to the bottom of the rumors to find out if space sex has already happened, and look at how the burgeoning space tourism business may soon lead to a boom in space sex.

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Likely a huge hit at any Halloween party it attended, Casey Pugh's Daft Punk helmet - It's a 16x5 LED matrix installed inside a cheap motorcycle helmet I found on Amazon. I used the Arduino to program all the animations. (arduino.cc)

The LEDs are on cardboard, so I punched holes between every single LED and some larger slits around the sides in order to see out. Straight-up awesome. [via Synthtopia]

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Monster Cable is a href="http://www.techdirt.com/search.php?site=#038;q=monster+cable"famously litigious/a over its trademark -- suing just about ianyone/i who uses the name "Monster" as a part of their corporate offering. Most of these lawsuits are bogus -- as trademark only covers the specific areas of business you're in, and doesn't give you complete control over the name. Thus, if you make a a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080722/1513011763.shtml"salt lick/a for deer called Monster Deer Block, you shouldn't have to worry about a lawsuit from Monster Cable... but you'd still get one, as pretty much everyone from the TV show Monster Garage to the Boston Red Sox (for the "Monster seats" on top of the "Green Monster" wall in left field) have found out. br /br / Earlier this year, the company went after a small mini-golf operation in California called a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080515/1940111131.shtml"Monster Mini Golf/a, which we doubted anyone would confuse with the cable makers. Apparently, that wasn't the only Monster Mini Golf that Monster's lawyers were busy hassling. a href="http://addic.tv"Chris Collett/a alerts us to the fact that a Rhode Island based Monster Mini Golf is a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem#038;item=250335844365" target="_new"also facing a lawsuit, and asking for help/a. But, there's an interesting twist here. The company is pleading it's case a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem#038;item=250335844365" target="_new"on eBay/a, and asking people to contribute to its defense fund via eBay. I'm not sure if this goes against eBay's terms of service, though I hope it doesn't: blockquotei BUT...one man is destined to crush what we have built. He is the founder of Monster Cable Inc. (a company that makes Audio cables) and he's suing us for "Trademark Infringement". br /br / In a nutshell, trademark infringement is based solely on "Likelihood of Confusion", or essentially, "could the average consumer be confused between the two?". The answer is no, as decided by the Patent and Trademark Office when they granted our trademarks, but Monster Cable Inc filed an opposition against that decision, and sued us. br /br / To this day, this one man has opposed approx 400 companies...and it doesn't look like he EVER intends to stop. This is the true meaning of Corporate Bully. br /br / Their tactic is to run the smaller companies out of money, and force them into a settlement where they surrender their name to Monster Cable Inc, who then licenses it back to them for a fee. Yes, so then we would be paying him for a concept and business we created and have worked very hard for! It is essentially extortion, but sadly, it is cheaper than going to trial, which can be crippling to small businesses like ours. br /br / Unlike the 414 companies he has forced into settlement by bleeding them dry.... we have decided to continue on and fight the good fight. We have chosen to stand up for anyone who has ever been bullied, picked on, abused, or otherwise forced into an unfair or unjust situation by a bigger, stronger, (or in this case, richer) opponent. br /br / Each small business that was forced to sign over their name is one more brick in the massive Monster Cable Inc wall, held together by the blood of those crushed beneath their corporate wheels. It is very very sad. br /br / So far our legal fees are well over $100,000. (And counting) and will likely reach $250,000 when all is said and done. No wonder why 400 companies have waived the white flag!! 250K is the cost of "Winning"!! We need your help, we cannot afford to do it alone. Wondering if this is real or not...just google Monster Mini Golf and Cable. Or visit audioholics web site and you will also read about many other cases there as well. br /br / What we are selling is a "Piece" of our legal defense and a small slice of Justice to you for $1. Yep, just a buck....and as Sally Struthers once said, that's less than a cup of coffee! Geez...at Starbucks, it wouldn't even buy you that! br /br / In return for your gracious purchase, you will receive a heartfelt "Thank You" from us and the knowledge that you have helped defeat a corporate bully who has been abusing the legal system for years! And, if you print your paypal receipt and take it to any Monster Mini Golf location, we'll take $2 Off a round of Mini Golf! (that's double your money back! Reg price for 18 holes is between $5.50-$7.50) /i/blockquote This is interesting, as I hadn't heard that Monster Cable was apparently iselling/i the Monster name back to people it bullied. That's even more obnoxious -- and a clear abuse of trademark law. Also, it's been a while since we've seen companies using a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20031218/101247.shtml"eBay auctions for PR/a, so maybe that's making a comeback. 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Cooler Master Introduces the new Sileo 500, a new design focused on quiet computing and ease of use. We'll look forward to reviewing this new chassis for you in the coming weeks. In the meantime, here's a sneak peek:

Armed with its long tradition of technological innovation and impeccable craftsmanship in stylistic design, Cooler Master is proudly introducing its latest quiet mid-tower chassis. Sileo 500 is the supreme embodiment of silence and elegance.

The Promise of Quiet Computing

Sileo 500 is constructed with silent features in mind which includes: acoustic foam sound insulation material around the chassis, anti-vibration pads inside the detachable HDD trays, and noise reduction pads for the power supply, to insulate any possible system noise from escaping the chassis.

Elegant Design

The modern philosophy of life is simple, practical yet full of style. The exterior design of Sileo 500 focuses on minimalism and practicality. Aluminum bezel of the case and the sharp vertical LED front light create a characteristic and chic look for Sileo 500. There are subtle ventilation holes between side and front panels to achieve superior thermal solution. The design of spacious interior is to accommodate various computer components.

Ease-of-Use Design

Establishing a user-friendly environment has always been the key for the Cooler Master engineering team. Sileo 500 provides users tool-free 5.25” and 3.5” drive bays for easy installation and maintenance. There is also easy access front I/O panel with support for e-SATA.





About Cooler Master

Cooler Master was founded to provide the best thermal solutions to our customers worldwide. Since its establishment a decade ago, we continue to invest in product development in order to provide the leading-edge innovations to people and businesses. Cooler Master’s enclosure technology line-up includes heat sinks and fans, chassis, power supplies, function panels and accessories. Cooler Master has its headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan, with global branch offices located in Europe, America and APAC, so that we can offer to our customers the best service in time. For more information on Cooler Master, please visit www.coolermaster.com.
Source: Cooler Master Press Release

this to me is the most beautiful container project i have seen until now To be honest i started to get a bit bored by all the reuse of container-projects until i saw this one! Also the fact that they re-used all waste created by the cutting of holes to create all the other needed functions recomposing the graphics ! great work! by these australian architects ! http://www.phooey.com.au/  » <a href='http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/phooey-architects-shipping-container-playground.php'>original news</a>

This is a problem I've been struggling with for a while and could really use another set of eyes or advice from a fresh perspective.

We're professional wedding photographers who have to develop a very economical storage and backup solution. We shoot about 20 weddings a year averaging 4000 photos a wedding at an average of 25-30mb per photo (we shoot RAW). This equals about 120GB a wedding in raw files and about 2.5TB in RAW files per season.

We also shoot a variety of other projects throughout the year and will be adding video to our workflow this year, which means we need even more space.

Right now we have two Mac Pros. The following is the current plan for storage/backup, I'm looking for people to shoot holes in it so please be brutally honest and give me your best suggestions for improvement.

Machine 1 - 2TB total usable space
- 4 1TB drives running in RAID 10 (which will include booting the OS from the RAID)
- This computer will be used to store RAW data only. RAW photos, and RAW video footage
- When any data is downloaded to this RAID array it will also be downloaded to a Mac Book Pro to be transferred to an offsite backup drive so that at all times we have one on-site raid copy of the files and one offsite single backup of the file
- When this RAID array is full all 4 drives will be removed, one mirrored set will be put in static bags in storage and one set will be placed in a dual bay external enclosure for easy access ***Is it possible to transfer two striped drives from the Mac Pro to the dual bay enclosure while maintaining the striped RAID?***

Machine 2 - 1TB total usable space
- 4 500GB drives running in RAID 10 (which will include booting the OS from RAID)
- This computer will be used to store LIVE working data. Edited JPEGs, albums, business documents, video edits.
- This computer will have the entire 1TB content of the array copied to a 1TB external firewire drive each night for backup (erasing the contents from the previous night). At the end of one week I'll move that firewire drive to an offsite location and replace it with another 1TB firewiredrive. Those two 1TB drives will be switched back and fourth offsite and onsite each week so that the most we could ever lose of LIVE working data is 1 week if our studio burnt down or something.
- Again like above when this RAID array is full all 4 drives will be removed, one mirrored set will be put in static bags in storage and one set will be placed in a dual bay external enclosure


I know that the Mac Pro has two odd sata ports on the motherboard which can be used to plug in two esata connectors. Does anyone think it would be worth plugging in two esata connectors to MACHINE 1 in order to have six 1TB hard drives running in RAID 10 for a total of 3 TB usable space. I've read that it's quite a pain installing those esata extenders on the mobo

- I really want to figure this problem out without using a RAID controller card
- I Do not want to create a linux server to house more than 4 drives
- I Do not want to use 1.5TB drives, as I've read some really negative reviews on them (and I can't risk losing anyones wedding pictures!)
- I Do want to use the Mac Pros existing 4 bays to create a good solution.
- I don't mind switching the drives out once a year and putting them in an enclosure but I don't want to have to take them out more than once a year because a) it means i have to install a fresh copy of the OS and related programs on new RAID 10 drives and b) i don't want a ton of external drives cluttering things up

Obviously eventually we'll be looking at dedicated Xserve type RAID arrays but for now I want to stretch the capabilities of the Mac Pro to find an existing solution.

Thanks in advance for anyone who has even taken the time to read this thread, I know it's super long.

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Released: Dec 02, 2008
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Bare with me. If you don't want to hear my hypothesis please skip this post.


The series premise is on the "plan of God" and that there is a on going theme of things happening again and again.

What i believe is that God's plan is to reset the human race every few hundred thousand years (well the human race resets itself)

What happens is originally, the human race got so technoligcally superior that it set out to other worlds to colonize. We became so powerful that we ourself became the Gods. The other worlds after thousands of years the colonists would forget where Earth is...

However, we as God created our "children" - the Cylons. Our children fought back (just as we are now fighting religion) and created themselves in our image.

As the series went along, the Cylon humans became more and more human. They had children with the God's (us) and now their resurrection ship is gone, they are mortal.

I think eventually the human race will be wiped out with only a few cylons remaining to start anew on Earth. The cycle repeats.

Anyone care to punch holes in my hypothesis or discuss further?