Watergate (407)

[SeaBee]

Very good point about the jackets. Lets face it, if they hadn't been able to make their own warm clothes, the Russians would have died out years ago!

[Major Fischer]

Very good point about the jackets. Lets face it, if they hadn't been able to make their own warm clothes, the Russians would have died out years ago!

That was exactly what I was thinking!

But seriously, the Russians do make some of the best mini-subs in the world. The ones seen in the opening sequences of Titanic are the Russian mini subs Mir 1 and Mir 2.

[Madeleine]

Very good point about the jackets. Lets face it, if they hadn't been able to make their own warm clothes, the Russians would have died out years ago!

There's a Russian saying: "There's no such things as Bad Winters, only Bad Coats".

[Erik Pasternak]

There's a Russian saying: "There's no such things as Bad Winters, only Bad Coats".

Amen to that.

[somme]

I think she should come back again.

[Major Fischer]

I think she should come back again.

i'd love to see her back. But i"d love to see her back in an episode where everyone remembers the a on the end of her surname....

[Cpn. Chris(tine) Bowman]

I watched the episode only because Marina Sirtis was one it (ok, I liked her as Deanna Troi, ok?)
Ended up laughing so hard The whole bit about the sub being Swiss was great, so clever

"Markov: Is her always like this?
Carter: Actually, this is quite charming."

"Teal'c: Do not humans usually die when they are frozen?" I wonder how CJ managed to keep a straight face saying that.

[berenikee]

"Markov: Is he always like this?
Carter: Actually, this is quite charming."

Yeah, that was great. Also when Jack asked her how she read about SG-1. (learn english)
I think that part when they are in the place, and all is dark was little frightening. Like X-files

[Erik Pasternak]

This made me wonder: if humans normally die when frozen, explain cryogenics to me.

[Madeleine]

Cryogenics works on small scales. If a living cell is frozen quickly enough it will survive being frozen and thawed. Lots of marine creatures spend the winter encased in ice, and we know that bacteria are not killed by freezing food. This is why sperm can be frozen, they're tiny.

Human adults are too large to be frozen solid very quickly. There are loads of stories of babies who wandered out into the Russian / Canadian winter in nothing but a nappy and been found three hours later frozen solid in a snowdrift and then revived to no ill-effect, but homeless adults who spend cold winter nights outside don't tend to be so fortunate.

The companies that freeze people's bodies and store them after death for possible revival at a later date freeze the bodies from the inside as well as outside so that the internal organs freeze swiftly enough.

[Erik Pasternak]

Thanks for the explaination Madeleine! That's very interesting.

[Luke80a]

Any comments on the gate of this episode? How a wormhole opens in water, and why water does not come rushing through...

I might be sounding sentemental, but I thought that it was nice to see the original Gate and DHD connected up for the first time in thousands of years!

[Beatrice Otter]

Thanks for the explaination Madeleine! That's very interesting.

I'd also note that as far as I'm aware, nobody's ever successfully thawed a body frozen cryogenically ...

[Hex.FTB.enabled]

Hmm, I guess I'm in the minority here. I really didn't care for this particular episode, I just couldn't get into the plotline no matter how hard I tried. Even with Maybourne, the episode just seemed flat to me. But I did the like lines about the sub being Swiss and "I've been hanging around Jack O'Neill too long."

[SmartFox]

Another Maybourne episode. Enough said.