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1)Your point, now that I know a little more about what it was your were trying to convey, was ambiguous at best. So what I'm saying is, you suck at making points. Also, you even admitted your ignorance when the picture I had posted was not of the actually space shuttle, but of the scaled down version created for the Air Force's own program. 2)It was unclear because, it was unclear. You just said DoD and some  and then assumed your audience would know you were talking about whatever shortcomings that were in your head that you had failed to present in your post. It was just "gently caress the shuttle" "gently caress DoD involvement" with almost no substance to support your claim. 3)We interpreted it as, "gently caress space exploration", because you flat out said "the shuttle sucks dick" when, whatever it shortcomings may be, will still be regarded in history as one of the biggest steps we have taken towards our venturing out into space. You see, it was your tone. Your attitude that was all wrong. Though, now that you have clarified your point a little better, I see where you are coming from. Kempo Yellow Belt fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Jul 6, 2012 |
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truth masseuse posted:3)We interpreted it as, "gently caress space exploration", because you flat out said "the shuttle sucks dick" when, whatever it shortcomings may be, will still be regarded in history as one of the biggest steps we have taken towards our venturing out into space. It'll be regarded as why space exploration stagnated for 40+ years.
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IRQ posted:It'll be regarded as why space exploration stagnated for 40+ years. You cannot blame NASA for overextending the shuttle program. They did what they could with the funds allocated to them. If you want to blame anyone, it is our elected officials who have continued to fail our generation. Many of these elderly, rich, white gentlemen should not be allowed to continue to steal our oxygen. Also, blame yourself. When is the last time you called your Senator or Congressman and complained that they need to invest more in STEM and NASA and less in poo poo projects like the Osprey as I pointed out earlier. I know my congressmen, Pat Meehan is a special kind of piece of poo poo who hopefully will only be a single term congressman.
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truth masseuse posted:You cannot blame NASA for overextending the shuttle program. They did what they could with the funds allocated to them. If you want to blame anyone, it is our elected officials who have continued to fail our generation. Many of these elderly, rich, white gentlemen should not be allowed to continue to steal our oxygen. Also, blame yourself. When is the last time you called your Senator or Congressman and complained that they need to invest more in STEM and NASA and less in poo poo projects like the Osprey as I pointed out earlier. I know my congressmen, Pat Meehan is a special kind of piece of poo poo who hopefully will only be a single term congressman. e:We were all quick to organize a blackout for SOPA. I'd have no problem participating in a day long blackout where I do nothing but harass congressmen and senators all mother loving day. Because, honestly, gently caress the lot of them. Well, this is embarrassing. mea culpa.
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truth masseuse posted:You cannot blame NASA for overextending the shuttle program. They did what they could with the funds allocated to them. If you want to blame anyone, it is our elected officials who have continued to fail our generation. Many of these elderly, rich, white gentlemen should not be allowed to continue to steal our oxygen. Also, blame yourself. When is the last time you called your Senator or Congressman and complained that they need to invest more in STEM and NASA and less in poo poo projects like the Osprey as I pointed out earlier. I know my congressmen, Pat Meehan is a special kind of piece of poo poo who hopefully will only be a single term congressman. I never said I blamed NASA. And just because the Osprey was a boondoggle (though they apparently work quite well now, which can never be said of the shuttle) doesn't excuse the shuttle. I'm all for funding the poo poo out of NASA and defunding the military, which given how I've talked poo poo about the DoD this entire discussion should be obvious. Donna Edwards is all about STEM.
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golgo13sf posted:Hey guys, have you seen the Stargate thread? Noted. Sorry for the derail. So, Teyla is probably the best character in all of Stargate. e:  Theories as to why this romance never quite took off?
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Jul 6, 2012 21:47
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I wish Teyla sang in every episode. My people.
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truth masseuse posted:Theories as to why this romance never quite took off? Because dragging out "will they or won't they" is a cynical but effective way to keep viewers. See also: The X-Files. There was a cut scene in that Atlantis episode where her, Rodney and Keller are stuck underground which had Carter pretty much confirming they were a couple, if I remember right. Jo Mallozi talked about this scene back when he did a blog on Gateworld, fans then mailed the studio demanding to see it, and he suddenly stopped blogging there.
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Haywood Japwnme posted:I wish Teyla sang in every episode. I wish Telya sang me to sleep every night.
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truth masseuse posted:So, Teyla is probably the best character in all of Stargate. The only thing which could have made SGU any more perfect than it already was would have been the inclusion of a Teyla singing montage in every episode.
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Flatscan posted:The only thing which could have made SGU any more perfect than it already was would have been the inclusion of a Teyla singing montage in every episode. Too much hate on SGU in this thread. I mean, poo poo, it had Col. La Bamba.
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Senor Tron posted:I assume that a properly managed Stargate actually requires very little power to function. The DHD delicately manages the gate in a way that a wormhole is easily established. Using a DHD is like opening a doorway, manual dialing is like smashing through a wall. We've seen that it can be powered from the other side if it has a functioning DHD as long as you've got enough power to start the connection, a bolt of lightning or something like that. vvv Something involving reproductive organs? Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Jul 7, 2012 |
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Luigi Thirty posted:We've seen that it can be powered from the other side if it has a functioning DHD as long as you've got enough power to start the connection, like a bolt of lightning or something like that. Bolt of lightning. That's nothing. McKay once started a Stargate using an Electroencephalograph and about two dozen electrodes hooked up to his massive brain.  I'd like to see Carter top that. Kempo Yellow Belt fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Jul 7, 2012 |
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Luigi Thirty posted:vvv Something involving reproductive organs? She would start the gate with her body, but you see, her reproductive organs are on the inside...
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I'm not seeing what the big deal is, warp drive was discovered after a world war that killed tons of people and we skipped out on the eugenics wars so we're going pretty good so far. We have the stargate so it's not like we need ships to explore other worlds any way. It all has to be made in America though, don't want those god drat aliens taking our jobs, the same ones that got killed off by space vampires. 
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McSpanky posted:She would start the gate with her body, but you see, her reproductive organs are on the inside... Oh no... what have you done??
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I've been watching the series over since I missed quite a few episodes. I'm only a little ways in to season 2, but so far every single episode involving Teal'c's family is awful. His kid is stupid, his wife is stupid, neither of them can act, and it's just a big mopey turd every time.
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So Comic Con has been and gone - does anyone know what this big Stargate-related announcement we were supposed to get was? I've looked on Gateworld and they've not got anything listed so I assume that it was a lot of fuss for nothing....
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I think the company that was creating the game smartened up when they realized there has never been a good Stargate game that sold.
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Zaroff posted:So Comic Con has been and gone - does anyone know what this big Stargate-related announcement we were supposed to get was? On facebook today, they had this: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=394062330651104&set=a.343038045753533.78983.280679601989378&type=1 That's about all I got.
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James R posted:There really is a Stargate. Remember the episode with Wormhole X-Treme? Meta! This sculpture that sits in Phoenix, AZ would like to vindicate you. 
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I found out my neighbor loved the movie, I have now gotten him onto watching SG1. Another convert for the cause!
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Zaroff posted:So Comic Con has been and gone - does anyone know what this big Stargate-related announcement we were supposed to get was? A Stargate app, apparently. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stargate-command/id537683105?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
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JetsGuy posted:I found out my neighbor loved the movie, I have now gotten him onto watching SG1. Another convert for the cause! What's our cause again? Spreading Origin?
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truth masseuse posted:What's our cause again? Spreading Origin? No but we are teaching everyone that The Ancients were huge dicks
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Downloaded the app. Free is a good price for it, I'd be annoyed if I paid like 2-3$ for it. It's exactly what they say, you can just sorta navigate the SGC and they have little snippets on items strewn about. Most of them are less descriptive than the stargate wikis of course. The golf game is kinda fun, and is pretty much the only saving grace that if it were a dollar, I'd be ok with it. EDIT: oh for gently caress sake, there's EXTRA CONTENT (TM) that you can pay for.  I take it all back, they don't even have the labs or anything, they just have the embarkation room and the adjoining offices. Sigh.bobkatt013 posted:No but we are teaching everyone that The Ancients were huge dicks Pretty much this. JetsGuy fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Jul 19, 2012 |
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bobkatt013 posted:No but we are teaching everyone that The Ancients were huge dicks Not all of them. The unfrozen south pole chick with the dreadlocks was like some sort of female Jesus. She came back to life and then died for the sins of SG-1. What's more, she actually pretended to like Jonas Quinn. Then again, the rest of The Ancients left her stranded on Earth a million years ago, those loving dicks.
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Noni posted:Not all of them. The unfrozen south pole chick with the dreadlocks was like some sort of female Jesus. She came back to life and then died for the sins of SG-1. What's more, she actually pretended to like Jonas Quinn. Merlin was a decent Ancient in assisting to get rid of the Ori. But then again he did invad Daniel's mind which could have killed him. What a dick.
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truth masseuse posted:Merlin was a decent Ancient in assisting to get rid of the Ori. But then again he did invad Daniel's mind which could have killed him. What a dick. Weren't the Ori just a group of Ancients with different beliefs? In that case, the Ancients really a dicks. Maybe being a dick is part of an Ancient's biology, only the Ori turned their dickish nature into an entire religion. Then again, the presence of the Ancient Technology Activation gene (among other lesser-mentioned "Ancient" genes) poses a certain problem: The source of the gene is said to be Ancients on earth who interbred with humans. They didn't explain this as being due to genetic modification of early humans, but actual interbreeding with Ancients stuck on earth. This means they had offspring. Because the gene survived, the offspring were unlike mules and other hybrids and were capable of reproducing. By the sexual definition of a species, that makes Ancients and early humans one and the same. Hell, even the Wraith were Ancients, only transformed by endosymbiosis with some stupid insect. QED. Every species is secretly "The Ancients" and we're all dicks. Everything bad that has ever been done by humans, Wraith, Ori, Jaffa, or any other major Stargate group can be blamed on The Ancients using this loophole. Noni fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Jul 20, 2012 |
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IRQ posted:Yeah they're ancients who went about ascension in a different way or some poo poo where they needed humans to believe in them. I think I mentally blocked that part out to save myself from the trauma. Thanks, jerk. This is like suddenly remembering being fondled by a clown on my sixth birthday. I'm imagining there is this big round bin in the old Stargate writers room that is labeled "Ideas!" During the third season of SG-1, that bin was so full of loose scraps of paper that you had to stomp on it just to close the lid. Writers used those scraps to light their cigars and wipe their asses, that's how plentiful they were. Then, six years later, everyone was sitting silently in the room, waiting for inspiration to strike. The oldest writer got up and hobbled over to the closet, grabbed the idea bin, and turned it upside down over the table. A large puff of dust and two scraps of paper fell out. The first one said, "Bad guys powered by prayer energy and they're really The Ancients." The second scrap said, "A fat kid gets lost in space."
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Hey guys, there's still a ton of SG-1 I haven't seen so I'm making my second attempt to watch the whole thing in order from the beginning (first attempt was a few months ago and got side-tracked by RL problems). IIRC there was an old Let's Watch thread floating around ages ago...anyone still have a link to that? I want to read other people's reactions as I go but lots of spoilers in this thread. 
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truth masseuse posted:Merlin was a decent Ancient in assisting to get rid of the Ori. But then again he did invad Daniel's mind which could have killed him. What a dick. Yeah, but it's Daniel; being killed is a Saturday afternoon for him.
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truth masseuse posted:Merlin was a decent Ancient in assisting to get rid of the Ori. But then again he did invad Daniel's mind which could have killed him. What a dick. My favourite thing about Stargate was the sort of backstory that was tied in to involve the egyptian pyramids and 'gods'. Merlin, Thor, etc all turning out of have very real origins even if they were extraterrestrial. I always wish more of that was discussed by Daniel in episodes to be honest, but I get why it was kept to a minimum with the emphasis being on actions and adventures.
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