Burning question for Pathogen

[revo1059]

Where did Rush get that piece of chalk?

.......maybe he found the daycare center on Destiny..........

[Spimman]

I thought the Ancients invented chalk!

[MattSilver 3k]

I would think chalk was some kind of military staple they'd actually want on hand - you can't draw battle plans on walls with pens... Scott and the folks were touting chalk as they marked off areas of the ship back in Air.

Long story short: Rush stole it. Lots of it.

[Spimman]

As for an actual answer...

In the premier episode "Air" the crew located a source of Calcite (limestone) to filter the CO2 out of the Air. Chalk can be found in nature in a few different forms being one of the earliest known writing tools, one form is limestone.

[KEK]

They probably just found some on a planet.

[SGeff]

Yeah, maybe just some stones like chalks

[SGSargon]

Yes the desert planet from Air is the source of chalk/calcium carbonate etc. but given how much Rush has written, it's safe to assume that more chalk was tken from diffrent planets.

[Shadow_7]

They had some, and it's probably a byproduct of the Air III dirt.

The real question is what does Rush use as the eraser? The voodoo doll of Young he made from old socks?

Or the more obvious question, why not just use the computers? He seems to be capable of programming them quite well. Or is his vision so bad that none of the displays are big enough?

[spaceship]

They had some, and it's probably a byproduct of the Air III dirt.

The real question is what does Rush use as the eraser? The voodoo doll of Young he made from old socks?

Or the more obvious question, why not just use the computers? He seems to be capable of programming them quite well. Or is his vision so bad that none of the displays are big enough?

He's got the whole beautiful mind thing going. It adds to his persona as the mad doctor of destiny!

[Smooth]

As soon as the crew were on Destiny, they were running around marking doors. Military does use chalk at times when they are conducting searches. Even in the first episode they made a point to show that Rush prefers to use a chalkboard. Possibly even enough to carry some with him.

[pipi]

The chalk looked manufactured. If it was obtained after arriving on Destiny it wouldn't be shaped so perfectly like a pencil.

[BadOnion]

If you made your own chalk, it would be easy to mold it into a perfect circular shape.

[kcatlantis]

They had some, and it's probably a byproduct of the Air III dirt.

The real question is what does Rush use as the eraser? The voodoo doll of Young he made from old socks?

Or the more obvious question, why not just use the computers? He seems to be capable of programming them quite well. Or is his vision so bad that none of the displays are big enough?

Because as a programmer, and math person, I can tell you it is a lot easier to work with problems on a white board.

[maylet]

I thought the Ancients invented chalk!

Why not? They invented the Stargate, LOL

[garhkal]

They had some, and it's probably a byproduct of the Air III dirt.

The real question is what does Rush use as the eraser? The voodoo doll of Young he made from old socks?

Or the more obvious question, why not just use the computers? He seems to be capable of programming them quite well. Or is his vision so bad that none of the displays are big enough?

Many scientists and math profs prefer to use visual stimuli/writing out what they are doing vice a computer, as
A) it is harder to erase it all and
B) at times you can write faster than the computer can keep up...