Andrew Venor wrote:
> David V. Loewe, Jr wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:59:25 -0700, Andrew Venor
comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>>>David V. Loewe, Jr wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 15:35:48 -0700, "Andrew Venor"
>>>>
comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>"whodunit"
whodunit.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>George Avalos wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>"The Last Man"
>>>>>>>3-7-08 SGA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>5 stars (Hicks)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>0-1 stars (Burke)
>>>>
>>>>>>5!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Loved all the twists and turns (reminiscent of
>>>>>>the Stargate's wormhole)!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Extra points for
>>>>>>-Believable character 'endings'
>>>>>>-Sort of alternate happy ending for Rodney/Keller
>>>>>>-reset button (although overused in scifi, sometimes it's ok)
>>>>>>-Ronon and Todd working together :-) Indeed, LOL!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Things I wondered about--FutureAtlantis has NO food/water replicators
>>>>>>whatsoever, yet enough power for lights, etc all over the place?
>>>>>
>>>>>You are thinking of the Star Trek's. I don't remember the city having food
>>>>>or water replicators.
>>>>
>>>>In fact, in an early episode (might even have been The Rising), Peter
>>>>Grodin reports to Dr. Weir that the city's desalinization plants are
>>>>making fresh water.
>>>
>>>Desalinization is a real technology to remover the salt from sea water
>>>to make it drinkable. Take the city out of the ocean and put in the
>>>desert and that machinery will not work with out a source of seawater.
>>>
>>>Replicators are a scifi technology that makes mater out of energy.
>>>That's something we haven't seen in the Ancient city.
>>
>>
>> Was there some sort of point to your post?
>
> The point is that the Ancient city does not have Star Trek like
> replicators. So Shepard was facing death by starvation or dehydration
> 48,000 years in the future.
Why didn't the real Rodney arrange to set up food and water caches at Atlantis?
