> 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...
He didn't think he'd need to. He forgot or didn't realise that planet had
turned into a red giant.
