It's like with those disclaimers that you can look at and go, "this boggles my mind, but I'm absolutely certain they disclaimed this because someone, at some point, tried to sue." I'm sure that half of the regulations on the SGC's books have that kind of encoded story behind them.
"And... okay, tell me why we have to take air samples six times, with decreasing intervals, over the course of four hours, for every new biome the MALP encounters?"
"Well, Lieutenant, let me tell you the story of PX4-227..."
(Actually, one of the things I really want to know is whether they developed a system to allow MALPs to dial the Stargate – or perform some other kind of diagnostic – after The Fifth Race, where the DHD was there and intact, but nonfunctional. Mostly, I'm just really charmed by the mental image of a MALP poking at the DHD with its little robot arm.)
As for the second file, I guess I could delete it. But then I'd deprive myself of the exquisit confusion when I inevitably forgot all about it and discovered it yet again. <_<
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Date: 2014-02-28 06:07 pm (UTC)"And... okay, tell me why we have to take air samples six times, with decreasing intervals, over the course of four hours, for every new biome the MALP encounters?"
"Well, Lieutenant, let me tell you the story of PX4-227..."
(Actually, one of the things I really want to know is whether they developed a system to allow MALPs to dial the Stargate – or perform some other kind of diagnostic – after The Fifth Race, where the DHD was there and intact, but nonfunctional. Mostly, I'm just really charmed by the mental image of a MALP poking at the DHD with its little robot arm.)
As for the second file, I guess I could delete it. But then I'd deprive myself of the exquisit confusion when I inevitably forgot all about it and discovered it yet again. <_<