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[ebonlock]

This quote in the comments at Sadly, No! regarding the soon to be missile system in Poland is definitely a keeper.

Laser McSpacefrisbee:

Laugh all you want, but when al-Qaeda starts launching intercontinental ballistic missiles, um, with GPS transponders on them, on a clear day, and there’s only one missile and they tell us its flight path in advance, well, there’s a pretty decent chance that it’s we who will be laughing. At them. Because we might shoot it down.

So laugh now, liberal commie pinko Jacobins.

Also just finished watching "The Shrine" and I'm reasonably sure they made this episode of Atlantis specifically for me. Well, ok for me and moonlightnrain. If we'd been sitting on the same couch while watching it I'm reasonably sure we'd have ended up clutching one another and whimpering like the pathetic little fan girls we are. I will attempt a more coherent post about this later. For the time being all I can say is that this ep was the most blatant and wonderful John/Rodney fan service lovefest possible. Seriously if there's a McShep fan out there who made it through entirely dry-eyed I'll be astonished. It reminded me so much of one of my all time favorite fics, Salt that I almost wonder if the episode writer had read it.

And now I really must go to bed...

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Dear Ellie,

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

I cried throughout The Shrine and made it dry-eyed through the end of Amber Spyglass. Is something wrong with me?

Signed,
Dry-Eyed in the Morning
Sunnyvale, CA

Re: Dear Ellie,

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I suspect the emotional impact of the end of Amber Spyglass may have been somewhat muted after the trauma that was "The Shrine". I've already watched the scene with John and Rodney again and may do so once more today :)

Re: Dear Ellie,

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

I've just been writing fic in my head all day as I run my errands/do my chores.

Sheets, by the way, can be cute and cheap but stiff, or boring and expensive but comfortable. I went with comfort. *sigh* I'll keep shopping for my ideal sheets. I know they are out there somewhere.

Lies...All Lies...

[h0h0.livejournal.com]

Mr. Laser McSpacefrisbee needs to do some fact checking.

I have direct knowledge that GPS does not report positions for anything that travels faster than 999 knots (~1100mph) and/or above 60,000 feet.

This is a restriction that the DoD had built into the GPS system from its inception for the specific reason mentioned by McSpacefrisbee.

The "Star Wars" program has been a multi-billion dollar farse from the very beginning. They only kills ever recorded had to be extremely simplistic, staged events. We simply don't have the hardware precision needed for such accuracy and we're throwing money away trying to do something that will come naturally with time and judicious R&D expenditures. And what about those missiles that pack 5-20 warheads in them and a bunch of decoys (which is pretty much every ICBM in existence)?

Re: Lies...All Lies...

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I think he was being sarcastic :)

Re: Lies...All Lies...

[h0h0.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know he was being sarcastic, but still...The facts were wrong. For me, it's a comedy killer. YMMV.