If You Ever Catch Me Staring, I Am:

I like this! Explains their relationship perfectly! ^_^

McKAY: OK. We think we’ve found a way to uncouple the nanite cells from Elizabeth’s cells. We create a distraction. What were the nanites originally designed to do? DEX: Fight the Wraith. McKAY: Exactly. So that’s what we’ll get them to do now. We think by implanting a small amount of Wraith tissue into Doctor Weir’s body… the nanite cells will essentially attack it. They have to - it’s what they are programmed to do, which will draw them away from Elizabeth’s cells, effectively unbinding them….that’s all we need; momentary distraction to draw them away from her so we can zap ‘em with the E.M. pulse. 

Ronon Dex’s patience is tested by #McKayXplanation. Stargate Atlantis 3.06 The Real World

Date & Switch - McShep

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Rodney checked his watch again, frowning, then suddenly realized how bad that looked and moved to scratch his arm like that was all he was doing. Just scratching an itch, not looking at his watch for what felt like the dozenth time. He put his hand back on the table and drummed his middle finger nervously. He realized how bad that looked and quickly distracted his hand by grabbing his glass and taking another sip of water. He felt his eyes being drawn down to his wrist again, but quickly suppressed the urge, beginning to heave a heavy sigh which he quickly covered in a light cough. His waitress appeared at the table, refilling his glass with a sympathetic smile. This cycle had been going on for a while, and he’d gone through several glasses already.

Rodney looked across the restaurant towards the door, hoping against all hope to see a blonde bun come bustling through. He realized he was looking desperate, again, and pretended to simply be scanning the dining area absentmindedly. This allowed him to take stock of the glances being sent his way, some pitying, some amused. His eyes shot back down to his table, retracing the floral engravings at the base of his silverware. That wasn’t helping.

He felt eyes boring into him and turned to find a young blonde woman sitting in one of the booths along the wall staring at him sympathetically. Her boyfriend didn’t appear to notice her diverted attention, continuing to talk rather frantically, something about turtles. She ducked her head slightly and shot him an apologetic smile, assuredly some attempt at solidarity. Rodney’s spine straightened and he raised his chin, turning back to look straight ahead at a fixed point on the wall, eyes flickering as he considered his options.

He contemplated pulling out his cell and faking a phone call. Something about feeling sick, or her dog getting out, or maybe, her brother is, uh, in jail. Rodney calculated how pitifully transparent that would look and then how utterly pathetic he would look, and was well on his way to working out the pros and cons of faking an allergic reaction when suddenly a man slid into the seat across from him, already talking, loudly.

“Aw man, sorry I’m late, traffic is insane out there. Have you ordered yet?” Rodney stared at him, bug eyed, mouth hanging open slightly, when the man continued in a much quieter tone of voice, “Hey, name’s John, just roll with it okay buddy? They’re not worth it anyway.”

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I found this very interesting.

Setting the Standards for Unmanned Aircraft

From advanced wing designs, through the hypersonic frontier, and onward into the era of composite structures, electronic flight controls, and energy efficient flight, our engineers and researchers have led the way in virtually every aeronautic development. And since 2011, aeronautical innovators from around the country have been working on our Unmanned Aircraft Systems integration in the National Airspace System, or UAS in the NAS, project.  

This project was a new type of undertaking that worked to identify, develop, and test the technologies and procedures that will make it possible for unmanned aircraft systems to have routine access to airspace occupied by human piloted aircraft. Since the start, the goal of this unified team was to provide vital research findings through simulations and flight tests to support the development and validation of detect and avoid and command and control technologies necessary for integrating UAS into the NAS.  

That interest moved into full-scale testing and evaluation to determine how to best integrate unmanned vehicles into the national airspace and how to come up with standards moving forward. Normally, 44,000 flights safely take off and land here in the U.S., totaling more than 16 million flights per year. With the inclusion of millions of new types of unmanned aircraft, this integration needs to be seamless in order to keep the flying public safe.

Working hand-in-hand, teams collaborated to better understand how these UAS’s would travel in the national airspace by using NASA-developed software in combination with flight tests. Much of this work is centered squarely on technology called detect and avoid.  One of the primary safety concerns with these new systems is the inability of remote operators to see and avoid other aircraft.  Because unmanned aircraft literally do not have a pilot on board, we have developed concepts allowing safe operation within the national airspace.  

In order to better understand how all the systems work together, our team flew a series of tests to gather data to inform the development of minimum operational performance standards for detect and avoid alerting guidance. Over the course of this testing, we gathered an enormous amount of data allowing safe integration for unmanned aircraft into the national airspace. As unmanned aircraft are becoming more ubiquitous in our world - safety, reliability, and proven research must coexist.

Every day new use case scenarios and research opportunities arise based around the hard work accomplished by this incredible workforce. Only time will tell how these new technologies and innovations will shape our world.

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This is just too cute!

Kitten And Owlet Become Best Friends And Nap Buddies

This is beautiful. It makes me think of my own animals that have passed. I miss them.

[Sequel to “Little Fish”]

A new pet to “replace” the old one can be a difficult experience. But you can’t replace old friends. You can always make new friends though :) Webtoons | instagram

My sis is lucky I love her. Lol Though, some nights, the above scene is very true.

You, every night.

I feel like the producers of SGA wanted another Kirk/Jack O'Neill and were shocked to find they got the Dude from the Big Lebowski instead

ha, if they wanted another O’Neill they should have stuck with the Ben Browder casting instead of recasting when Ben was off filming the Farscape movie.  Joe played the most laid-back Air Force pilot ever (like seriously, most pilots are Type As who worked their asses off to get in the pilot seat - sort of like top surgeons, that level of work and skill needed to excel).

Joe played John as the zen genius who’s been through the valley of shadows, invited death into his house, and come out the other side into ice. He accepted that he wasn’t going to care about much, but those he did care about (and those who he pledged himself to protect), he would burn the earth to the ground in their defence. But he was real, not some fictional hero type - he was nervous around people, he misread intentions, he geeked out over new tech and toys and the fact that they were on an alien city on another planet, and I think that was the brilliance in how Joe Flanigan played John Sheppard  - John Sheppard was a relatable audience insert.

We got a geek, a fun guy who had a hard time making friends, who never really sees the attention of beautiful women coming because why would they be into him,  who would do anything to protect his friends, who got to fly cool alien planes and stop the bad guys and make nerdy yet appropriate quips while doing so. He was the guy the audience could jump on to move into the story, and I don’t know if it was intentional on Joe’s part or if just happened but man, it worked. I don’t normally  identify with male characters in stories but John Sheppard became my favourite because he he was the hero I could see myself being.

In a way (and this is a tangent) John Sheppard was more like Han Solo than a lot of other recent sci fi characters. In the original trilogy, Han Solo was literally a scruffy bounty hunter who was a bit of a nerd, who acted all tough and suave but really was just a guy who was decided that he was going to be a hero, not because it was a way to get the girl, but because it was what he wanted to do, for himself, for his friends, and for the galaxy. And for the audience, that journey was relatable because we all can imagine coming from a place of reluctance to decide to take on heroic actions.

So anyway tl’dr i have a lot of feelings about John Sheppard and how he was portrayed by Joe Flanigan and how the portrayal was something really out of the ordinary in sci fi etc etc.

Go Rodney!! ^_^