Snerk.
What's a puddle-jumper, and how does the Daedalus differ from the Prometheus?
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Betsy HP - Sep 16, 2005 12:07:48 pm PDT #4200 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Dana - Sep 16, 2005 12:10:03 pm PDT #4201 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
A puddle-jumper is an Atlantean (Lantian? What is the adjective?) ship. It's designed, among other things, to fit through the gate, so they can fly places rather than going on foot. Which is handy, because some of the gates are in space.
Vonnie K - Sep 16, 2005 1:06:24 pm PDT #4202 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Ever since Maayan called the puddle-jumper "space tampax", I am unable to look at the ship go through the gate without collapsing in giggles like a 12-year-old. This poses a problem as that particular visual tends to occur several times in the course of each episode.
DXMachina - Sep 16, 2005 1:25:23 pm PDT #4203 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Really, I'm with Jack. Naming your ships after Greek tragedies is a bad idea.
Daedalus and Prometheus aren't tragedies, though. They're figures from Greek mythology. Their stories aren't the happiest, but whose were in those days? At least they haven't named a ship the Oedipus.
Katie M - Sep 16, 2005 1:35:08 pm PDT #4204 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Well, can we agree on "somewhat tragic figures"? I'll grant that Oedipus would be worse (though I'm just waiting for Icarus, myself).
JenP - Sep 16, 2005 2:05:34 pm PDT #4205 of 10001
Which is handy, because some of the gates are in space.
Speaking of which, have they addressed how our intrepid gaters tell a space address from a ground address? I'm hoping they don't have to surrender a MALP to the vacuum of space every time, because that would make me sad.
askye - Sep 16, 2005 2:12:56 pm PDT #4206 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
What happens if someone tries to go through the wormhole the wrong way? Do they end up atomized or something?
JenP - Sep 16, 2005 2:20:45 pm PDT #4207 of 10001
What happens if someone tries to go through the wormhole the wrong way?
I know you can't do it, but I don't know what happens if you try. Unless you're a radio wave, because if you're a radio wave, you can do anything! even if it violates the very laws of physics that exist within the SG-verse. And by "exist," I mean, "can be ameneded or ignored at will to serve the story." Because that's how the laws of physics should be, really.
DebetEsse - Sep 16, 2005 2:31:28 pm PDT #4208 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I know that a MALP that went through a Stargate that was lying on the ground (well, actually, in the ground, but it's complicated, was destroyed by falling back into the Event Horizon.
JenP - Sep 16, 2005 2:43:37 pm PDT #4209 of 10001
That's actually a little scary (or, I mean, would be, if it were real). You stumble a little coming out of the gate, or bump into the person in front of you and bounce back a little, and you're toast.