The perfect vacation

[Nate the Great]

Uh, the ATA gene hardly protects you from Wraith. At least not by itself.

Dave Barry: Guys like neat stuff. And by "neat" I mean "mechanical and unnecessarily complex."

Oh, so the Wraith can have fun with Phil the Prince of Insufficient Light? I'm sure that they'd be terrified of that pitchspoon!

[MaverickZer0]

No, but the cool tech you get to use with it does! And then I could fly a Puddle Jumper. Which is win points in itself...not to mention I might pull a Daniel and geek out at the whole thing, just because it's there.

[Nate the Great]

One thing I like about Stargate is that you can get away with naming ships things like Puddlejumpers. You just KNOW that if it was Trek they would've used Gateship.

Oh, and are you assuming that just having the ATA gene automatically gives you the ability to pilot a starship? I'd definately stratch some paint off of the Gate the first time I tried to fly one.

[JVTruman]

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

One thing I like about Stargate is that you can get away with naming ships things like Puddlejumpers. You just KNOW that if it was Trek they would've used Gateship.

Or if it was 'Moebius'.

[MaverickZer0]

Well, I'd be better than Carson, for sure. And probably Rodney. I've actually flown a small plane before and didn't do badly. As in crash or hit anything. Okay, it was in a field, but there were a couple trees I could've hit. I can also concentrate quite well when I try.

Puddle Jumpers for the win. One of the reasons Sheppard is awesome. And I don't know...'Delta Flyer' sounds pretty rad.

[Nate the Great]

Yeah, well, in Moebius there was no Sheppard to come up with a better name. Plus I think it was there so that Rodney can sleep better knowing (on a subconscious level) that there are universes out there where his name won out.

And did those trees almost feel like they were kissed? (Obscurity is my bread and butter)

Okay, informal poll, who is more of a blatant O'Neill clone: Sheppard or Mitchell?

I'd want a vacation in the h2g2 universe. I'd be sure to bring my towel.

[MaverickZer0]

Neither of them are really much like O'Neill, by Mitchell really is far more. He likes all the stuff blowing up, is kinda dense sometimes, etc. Sheppard generally tries to calm down the people who get overexcited about some new thing (unless 'some new thing' is an Ancient toy, then he has fun with it) I do like Sheppard better than Mitchell, too.

Mitchell isn't an O'Neill knockoff, though--he's Jack if he'd grown up about twenty years later. Fairly different, though there are similarities.

I think Rodney is less concerned about the universes that won out than his sister telling people his real first name.

[Nate the Great]

Rodney has enough problems, let's let him stew over his unfortunate name on his own time.

[PointyHairedJedi]

I would, on my own, go and see the sheild volcanoes of the Tharsis region of Mars. Hocking a loogie off the side of Olympus Mons (or indeed any of the three other volcanoes) would be problematic though - aside from the deadly atmosphere, pretty thin though it would be at that altitude, the shape of the volcano itself (basically a dome of rock) means I'd have to get a pretty respectible velocity going on said loogie if it were to have any chance of clearing Olympus Mons and reaching the ground below, even in Martian gravity. Of course, while I was over there I'd probably take the oppertunity to see Argyre and Elysium too, as it's probably not the sort of holiday I'd be able to afford too often.

[Nate the Great]

Don't forget to make faces at the Mars lander while you're there. Go Calvin and Hobbes!

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by PointyHairedJedi

Hocking a loogie off the side of Olympus Mons (or indeed any of the three other volcanoes) would be problematic though - aside from the deadly atmosphere, pretty thin though it would be at that altitude, the shape of the volcano itself (basically a dome of rock) means I'd have to get a pretty respectible velocity going on said loogie if it were to have any chance of clearing Olympus Mons and reaching the ground below, even in Martian gravity.

Easy. All you have to do is wait for a dust storm to kick up, providing you with an adequate tailwind. Should be a piece of cake.

[Nate the Great]

Okay, here's the kicker. How far away from a manned Mars mission are we, really? I'd say that probably the technology is theoretically a decade away, but it'll take a LOT longer than that to accumulate the money, fuel, and an appropriate orbit location to jump off from.