Greatest MacGyvers of Science Fiction
http://io9.com/373892/greatest-macgy...cience-fiction
excerpt:
The greatest science fiction heroes are resourceful, building high-
tech devices out of whatever crap they find laying around. In the
right hands, a paperclip and some bubblegum can become an
interstellar wave modulator. The more ridiculous those moments of
gadget improvisation are, the more they make you feel as if you could
create your own otherworldly tech and access other planets using the
materials you already have — if you only knew how. Click through for
our roundup of the greatest MacGyvers of sci-fi.
..........
Stargate: Atlantis. Rodney McKay famously asks "What am I, MacGyver?"
in this spin-off from the Richard Dean Anderson-starring Stargate
SG1. But he actually does work technological marvels at regular
intervals, making sense of Ancient technology. He built an atomic
bomb for his sixth-grade science project. Not to mention,
in "Condemned," he totally one-ups Scotty when he says it'll take two
days to cobble together a new "Dial-Home Device" from secondary
systems... and then downgrades that estimate to ten minutes in a
pinch.
REST AT LINK ABOVE
http://io9.com/373892/greatest-macgy...cience-fiction
excerpt:
The greatest science fiction heroes are resourceful, building high-
tech devices out of whatever crap they find laying around. In the
right hands, a paperclip and some bubblegum can become an
interstellar wave modulator. The more ridiculous those moments of
gadget improvisation are, the more they make you feel as if you could
create your own otherworldly tech and access other planets using the
materials you already have — if you only knew how. Click through for
our roundup of the greatest MacGyvers of sci-fi.
..........
Stargate: Atlantis. Rodney McKay famously asks "What am I, MacGyver?"
in this spin-off from the Richard Dean Anderson-starring Stargate
SG1. But he actually does work technological marvels at regular
intervals, making sense of Ancient technology. He built an atomic
bomb for his sixth-grade science project. Not to mention,
in "Condemned," he totally one-ups Scotty when he says it'll take two
days to cobble together a new "Dial-Home Device" from secondary
systems... and then downgrades that estimate to ten minutes in a
pinch.
REST AT LINK ABOVE