Ok--it was my idea that we come up with fictional scenarios for us meeting Sam in some way connected to our own professions. You guys have done a great job! I have struggled. I couldn't really come up with a way to be at the SGC, so I thought about running into Sam at the AF Academy. So here's my attempt. I look forward to seeing what else my fellow Samandans can come up with.
Dear Sis,
Well my guest lecture at the Air Force Academy went pretty well. I still can’t believe they invited me—not being a military historian--to present, but I guess that article I wrote was better than I thought. Anyway, none of the cadets fell asleep. I was a bit distracted when an officer came in after I’d started the presentation. I later found out she was Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter because she came up to me after the lecture, introduced herself, apologized for being late and said she enjoyed the talk. She was quite impressive—she seems about my age or younger, which I think means she’s young for a colonel, but she has tons of ribbons on her uniform. Those ribbons certainly clued me in that she was likely not a military historian! I said, you’re not a historian, are you? And she smiled and said no, her own specialty is astrophysics, but that she enjoys learning about history and archaeology and found at the last minute that her schedule permitted her to stop in. She said that one of her best friends is an archaeologist. We wound up having quite the chat. She seemed quite informed on history and asked me a few excellent questions. I admitted I didn’t know much about astrophysics and asked if that meant she worked on things like rockets for the Air Force. She smiled and said “something like that”—it wasn’t the way scientists usually treat non-scientists—you know—“it’s so complex you wouldn’t get it”—it seemed more like a mysterious smile. I wonder if her work is classified? Anyway, I wish the science people on my campus were so open minded!
Talk to you soon,
Jane
Dear Sis,
Well my guest lecture at the Air Force Academy went pretty well. I still can’t believe they invited me—not being a military historian--to present, but I guess that article I wrote was better than I thought. Anyway, none of the cadets fell asleep. I was a bit distracted when an officer came in after I’d started the presentation. I later found out she was Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter because she came up to me after the lecture, introduced herself, apologized for being late and said she enjoyed the talk. She was quite impressive—she seems about my age or younger, which I think means she’s young for a colonel, but she has tons of ribbons on her uniform. Those ribbons certainly clued me in that she was likely not a military historian! I said, you’re not a historian, are you? And she smiled and said no, her own specialty is astrophysics, but that she enjoys learning about history and archaeology and found at the last minute that her schedule permitted her to stop in. She said that one of her best friends is an archaeologist. We wound up having quite the chat. She seemed quite informed on history and asked me a few excellent questions. I admitted I didn’t know much about astrophysics and asked if that meant she worked on things like rockets for the Air Force. She smiled and said “something like that”—it wasn’t the way scientists usually treat non-scientists—you know—“it’s so complex you wouldn’t get it”—it seemed more like a mysterious smile. I wonder if her work is classified? Anyway, I wish the science people on my campus were so open minded!
Talk to you soon,
Jane
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