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    More Rational Use of the LRC Stones

    Sam and Rodney are both currently on Earth, maybe instead of wasting the stones on Chloe telling her Mom in person that her father died (totally unnecessary) they should be sending the experts to Destiny to fix the damn ship.

    I know it would kill the show if they could fix it fast, but they should at least show them trying and having problems with it (i.e. the technology is too old and you don't have the replacement parts on-board, etc) - it doesn't make sense that they wouldn't immediately send the 2 foremost experts on Ancient technology to an Ancient ship which is falling apart.

    The more time they waste, the more ridiculous it gets.

    #2
    If Rush couldn't fix it then why would Sam or Rodeny be able too. His inteligence seems about the same
    Originally posted by aretood2
    Jelgate is right

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      #3
      Because Sam and McKay have experience with this stuff

      Where as Rush doesnt

      Descended is right, they wouldve sent some specialized people using the stones, especially with the whole speech about how no one their is qualified

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        #4
        Yeah. They needed to fix the scrubbers. If Scott didn't find...whatever the hell that was, then there was no point in bringing anyone else to help. What exactly could they do when there was no air?

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          #5
          Come on, Jelgate, you have to admit that they have made Sam and Rodney into "the" experts. Rush worked for 6-months to dial the 9th chevron and needed Eli to finally do it.

          Rodney in "Inferno" took a badly damaged Aurora-class ship and in the space of 2 days fixed the life-support, the shields, and the hyperdrive, all by himself. Not to mention that he got "wormhole drive" to work when the Ancients themselves hadn't really finished it. They may be of similar intelligence, but Rush seems to be more about the mathematics and less about the Ancient tech, and after years on Atlantis Rodney has to have more experience.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Descended View Post
            Come on, Jelgate, you have to admit that they have made Sam and Rodney into "the" experts. Rush worked for 6-months to dial the 9th chevron and needed Eli to finally do it.
            And who is to say that Sam and Rodney hadn't looked at the code and failed just as badly as Rush
            Originally posted by aretood2
            Jelgate is right

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              #7
              You're missing the point - this wasn't something they could "fix". They physically needed materials off another planet. Crossing a few wires wasn't gonna be enough.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Descended View Post
                Come on, Jelgate, you have to admit that they have made Sam and Rodney into "the" experts. Rush worked for 6-months to dial the 9th chevron and needed Eli to finally do it.

                Rodney in "Inferno" took a badly damaged Aurora-class ship and in the space of 2 days fixed the life-support, the shields, and the hyperdrive, all by himself. Not to mention that he got "wormhole drive" to work when the Ancients themselves hadn't really finished it. They may be of similar intelligence, but Rush seems to be more about the mathematics and less about the Ancient tech, and after years on Atlantis Rodney has to have more experience.
                Agreed.

                It was zelenka not mckay.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by reddevil18 View Post
                  You're missing the point - this wasn't something they could "fix". They physically needed materials off another planet. Crossing a few wires wasn't gonna be enough.
                  Still experts having a look around is better than that cry baby wasting time to sob with her mother

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                    #10
                    We are assuming that because they didn't find it, but it seems unlikely that the Ancients would have launch a ship they eventually intended to board, without replacement CO2 scrubbers in storage somewhere given that they are a necessary component of manned spaceflight. There is probably a storage bay full of them if they could access other areas of the ship.

                    The only reason the one in use was so messed up was because it had been operating for thousands of years, those in storage would be most likely be fine.

                    The main characters are going to have to fine the replacements sooner or later because that cobbled together CO2 scrubber would become saturated very quickly given the number of people on-board.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Nemises View Post
                      Still experts having a look around is better than that cry baby wasting time to sob with her mother
                      I would like to see how you would react if your father died right in front of you
                      Originally posted by aretood2
                      Jelgate is right

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                        #12
                        It was zelenka not mckay.
                        Zelenka told Woolsey about it, but if I remember correctly he said something to the effect of "Rodney has been messing around with something in his spare time... Wormhole drive" - Rodney himself couldn't say it because he was trapped on the Superhive at the time.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Descended View Post
                          We are assuming that because they didn't find it, but it seems unlikely that the Ancients would have launch a ship they eventually intended to board, without replacement CO2 scrubbers in storage somewhere given that they are a necessary component of manned spaceflight. There is probably a storage bay full of them if they could access other areas of the ship.

                          The only reason the one in use was so messed up was because it had been operating for thousands of years, those in storage would be most likely be fine.

                          The main characters are going to have to fine the replacements sooner or later because that cobbled together CO2 scrubber would become saturated very quickly given the number of people on-board.
                          Ummm...the scrubber itself was fine. The solution inside was mucked up. They simply cleaned the containers and replaced the raw material. Again, what exactly could McKay do that Rush couldn't? He entered the data in the ship's computer, essentially telling it what they needed. The ship didn't flash a "Yo, dude, you can find a ton of that stuff in the storage container on the left". It instead dropped out of FTL in range of a planet where they found what they needed.

                          I will agree with you that further situations might require McKay or Carter, but neither of them can produce...whatever the hell that was out of their ass. Rush did everything he could in the situation, so just drop it already.

                          On an unrelated note, is anyone else having trouble accessing the GW main page? As in "It's not bloody working!"?

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                            #14
                            I would like to see how you would react if your father died right in front of you
                            Yes it is tragic, but the military (and any first-responder) would be more interested in saving the living people than in mourning the dead and they are who decides who will use the LRC stones. There will be time to grieve once everyone is safe.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by reddevil18 View Post
                              Ummm...the scrubber itself was fine. The solution inside was mucked up. They simply cleaned the containers and replaced the raw material. Again, what exactly could McKay do that Rush couldn't? He entered the data in the ship's computer, essentially telling it what they needed. The ship didn't flash a "Yo, dude, you can find a ton of that stuff in the storage container on the left". It instead dropped out of FTL in range of a planet where they found what they needed.

                              I will agree with you that further situations might require McKay or Carter, but neither of them can produce...whatever the hell that was out of their ass. Rush did everything he could in the situation, so just drop it already.

                              On an unrelated note, is anyone else having trouble accessing the GW main page? As in "It's not bloody working!"?
                              http://forum.gateworld.net/showthread.php?t=69915
                              Originally posted by aretood2
                              Jelgate is right

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