The important questions.

[trinityofone]

THIRD try because LJ didn't like my poll. *tear*

siriaeve siriaeve siriaeve! Guess who's in my history tutorial? It's Orlando Momoa!

Yeah, so siriaeve and I keep seeing this guy around the Trinity campus who, I swear to God, looks like the secret love child of Jason Momoa and Orlando Bloom. He's got the Ronon dreads but he's kind of babyfaced and the combination is just...hee. And now I have a class with him! And--watch, it gets better--it turns out that he's French! His name is Jean! *dies*

Ahh, it almost made up for the tutor writing the following on the board when we were talking about reading primary documents:

Important! Who its by + who for

I couldn't concentrate for the rest of the tutorial; I kept wanting to make a mad dash for the chalk and add the missing apostrophe. Yes, for want of an apostrophe, I will have difficulty respecting this tutor for the rest of the term. *is a snob and a bitch*

So while I'm busy feeling superior in my mad grammar skillz (she said, at which point anyone who had read more than one or two entries in this journal burst into painful, side-splitting laughter), I was wondering if someone could help me with an area in which I have considerably less expertise? We're talkin' science. SGA fandom is tough for me in this way, but so far I think I've been able to fake it reasonably well. (Er...right?) Now, though, I'm stuck dealing with a story that, annoyingly, has an actual PLOT, and the plot involves genetics just enough that it's making me feel uncomfortable. Basically, I have a somewhat outrageous sci-fi premise, and I need to make it sound scientifically plausible--not actually scientifically plausible, but I'm aiming for at least the level of plausibility as most of the stuff they spit out on the show. (Not a very high aim, from what I've been told.) Would someone with a bit of sciencey knowledge be willing to e-mail with me a bit about this? I'd discuss it more here, but I don't want to give away my OH-SO-EXCITING PLOT TWIST, OMG!!! So yeah: trinityofone@livejournal.com should get it to me. Thank you!

And because this post is BORING, and the last thing the world needs is another BORING POST, I'll provide you instead with another:

[Poll #651589]

Please feel free to further explicate your decisions. I have my theories, but I suspect they are based entirely on conjecture and personal preference. Like I said: science!

Comments

[crownglass39.livejournal.com]

Although I reserve the right to change my answer on the second question at any time.

Personally, I think you should have a
"both, at the same time"
category. Because, well...yeah...

[siria]

*SQUEAKS WITH LAUGHTER* I have just spent the past five minutes collapsed over a chair in the computer labs giggling to myself. French! This is without a doubt the best thing I have heard all day.

[birdsflying]

If it had been a choice between Joe and David, it would have been almost impossible to choose but considering how scarily similar Rodney and I are at times, John wins hands down. I love Rodney dearly and am attracted to him but I can only to easily see how we'd either piss each other off or get sidetracked (oh noes!)

Also.. it'd kinda weird sleeping with what is probably the closest thing to a male version of myself. :blinks:

One of my lecturers once got the who/whom thing wrong in a lecture note and even though I am equally guilty, I still felt that same superiority thing. Oh grammar, what have you done to me?

[airinshaw.livejournal.com]

Clarifying my answer for the first one, I think they'd take it in turns personally ;)

And I'd love to help you with the scienceyness, but dammit Jim, I'm an astrophysicist not a geneticist!
[/bad star trek jokes]

Oh who am I kidding - I never stop making bad jokes, Star Trek or otherwise! Just run when I start making physics jokes and laughing at them myself.

[wychwood]

who, I swear to God, looks like the secret love child of Jason Momoa and Orlando Bloom. He's got the Ronon dreads but he's kind of babyfaced and the combination is just...hee.

Take (and post) photos! You know you want to! *g*

Important! Who its by + who for

Oh, man, I hate that. One of our lecturers scatters SPaG errors heavily throughout his Powerpoints, and I have to look steadfastly away from the screen the whole time... I just can't see past them, you know?

Basically, I have a somewhat outrageous sci-fi premise, and I need to make it sound scientifically plausible--not actually scientifically plausible, but I'm aiming for at least the level of plausibility as most of the stuff they spit out on the show. (Not a very high aim, from what I've been told.)

If you don't get any Real Scientists responding (which I'm sure you will), I might be able to help. My degree covered an astonishing number of things, at times *g*

Oh, also - random bit of meta about science on Atlantis, mostly biology. There's some interesting discussion there, IIRC.

re: poll - I like John and Rodney pretty much any way they come (sic). I think of them as being equals in the relationship, pretty much, and I kind of expect that to involve them trading off, though I know it doesn't exactly correlate. I find it hard to imagine one of them refusing to bottom, though, because that's a kind of power and security thing that I don't see them getting into.

I still feel bad for Beryl, though! :)

Oh, and Rodney. Totally. I mean, John is pretty, but Rodney... *melts a little*

Did I tell you about the "Marry, Shag, Cliff" round where someone gave me Radek, Rodney and John? I was so upset about having to throw my poor Radek off the cliff *g*

[stillane.livejournal.com]

I might kind of, sort of be a biologist by day, and have thus had the requisite courses in genetics and microbio and such. (Just because I've currently been lead astray by the wonders of paleontology...) I'd be willing to pitch in, if you're interested.

[godofwine.livejournal.com]

Although, re: second question - I totally love Rodney more! But if it were a quick one night stand, I would do John.

*is shallow like that*

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

I would just like to take this opportunity to !!! at you, because I wholeheartedly approve of someone (especially you!) going "You know what this fandom needs? Science. More science. And not just science! Genetics." in the middle of my HOMGSCIENCE phase.

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

as with most fans of the non-scary variety I like them to go back and forth, but for any given scene it depends what mood I'm in--usually I have a preference for rodney on top but then some days you just want to see an astrophysicist totally lose it, you know? *g* they each--mostly my mental entry point to the pairing is john's issues and vulnerabilities and exposing that, so mostly that's where i go, but it all depends really. and that dynamic is more about the--well, dynamic, than the actual sex act, so it might not be 'topping' per se--FANDOM NEEDS MORE HANDJOBS--but yeah. that.

really i am wary of the whole BUTTSEX SUPREMACY thing, because it's just so...any sexuality that is ALL ABOUT PENIS-IN-GROINAL-SOCKET makes me wary, and it's totally limiting as faras the million things which are so very hot. ...but I LOVE THE BUTTSEX, i cannot lie, so my dream sex scene would have the fucking, i just don't want to be one of THOSE FANS and turn buttsex into THE CULMINATION OF LOVE AND ANGELS SINGING FROM HEAVEN. you know.

boy, i think too much about this stuff.

[tikiaceae.livejournal.com]

David Hewlett and Rodney McKay totally *owns* my body and soul and everything I have... except my dog. Doyle is mine. Mine mine mine. But the rest? So totally not mine.

Take me!

Also, I can be sciency if required... I took advanced molecular genetics in uni which I don't remember much of. *g* I think there're plenty more people who're more qualified than me but if you're still looking, I'll be happy to help.

[sonofzeal.livejournal.com]

Quick question...how long are you gonna be in Dublin?

[ainaria.livejournal.com]

I tried to choose both *cough* for that second question, but the damn thing didn't let me, so then I went and chose John, which isn't the whole truth, cos I'd totally take Rodney too and wow this is like the longest sentence ever. *g*