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

[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.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Oh, ideally, long-term: they definitely, definitely take turns. WITH EVERYTHING. Yes.

But in your ONE, PERFECT SEX SCENE--the one you were invited to watch, and dictate some of the terms--who tops then? That's what I want to know. *eg*

And I must remember that you are my astrophysics expert! 'Cause probably? I will need help not breaking science someday soon. ;-)

[airinshaw.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm....if I had to pick? I think Rodney would top. Because somehow it counterbalances this seemingly ongoing thought that John=hot therefore gets to pick and Rodney=geek therefore has to sit around waiting to be picked.

I think Rodney is far hotter than John personally (mmmm....DH.....), even though JF is technically better looking, and hence John seeing that and Rodney topping would somehow redress the imbalance.

Not to go on and on in your journal either, but John is a control freak hiding behind a laid-back exterior and though we've seen Rodney metaphorically bend over and take it (cf Trinity) for John to let someone else take over seems like much more of a trust thing - so him trusting Rodney to that extent seems like a huge declaration on John's part that he possibly could never even voice.

However, I do see them as having a very equal relationship, quite simply because they are both naturally forceful and intelligent and lack what the other has in abundance.

Mmmm...meta...

And you're welcome to use me as your physics/astrophysics tool. Though as long as you have everything obey the law of conservation of momentum then you're doing a better job than most sci fi I can tell you!