Tim Bruening wrote:
>
> 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?
>
Great question, Tim! He had 25 years to think about taking care of John,
he couldn't pack up a few power bars and bottles of water in statis for
protection so John wouldn't starve or die of dehydration??
I guess we wouldn't have had the 'I'm getting too weak to do anything'
reaction from John if he had though...
