the last couple of episodes they have been doing that.
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So they were
once part of a vast federation alliance of planets...
That guy is no Chief O'Brien! Shepard is such a little guy, maybe that's why he gets no respect.
God, I love Cold Lazarus. I think I'm just a little Jack-shipper. Jack-ho. Whatever.
They really wasted the use of Colm Meany, didn't they?
Oh my God. McKay and Sheppard are so cute together I could just die!!
Ahem.
That was some good banter, y'all. The writers are doing a great job playing up to David Hewitt's strength (neurotic wiseass). And God help me, I am charmed by Sheppard, despite my knee-jerk antipathy to cocky jocks. I even liked Teyla in this. Huh.
The scene in which Weir scolded Sheppard and Ford with "I just sent you guys for some food!" was priceless. They looked like a couple of 10 year old boys getting a scolding from their Mama. Heh.
Dude, Sam totally needs to have an affair with Alec.
I think, if the world suddenly stopped spinning, that flights from London to the US would not be as short as they routinely are (basically the plane gets extra help from the earth rotating under it).
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No, it doesn't work that way. If it were true, every time you hopped straight up into the air you would land somewhere to the west of where you started. You'd have to be in orbit (or at very least a vacuum) for that to work, and even then I'm not sure it would do it. The ground speed of an aircraft is determined by it's velocity, and the velocities of air masses it flies through, which are independent of the earth's rotation, except for the heating and cooling of the air masses due to the day-night cycle. If a plane is flying into a headwind, it will take longer to get somewhere than if it's flying with a tailwind. The fact that the earth is spinning has nothing to do with it.
There's an article here that explains it better than I can.
Of course, there's also this explanation of why some flights are shorter.
Captain Sheffield .
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Yeah, I was going to mention that. Heh.