What might MacGyver and geek!Sam need to work on together?
She's an astrophysicist, of course, and seems to be a bit of an engineer, and he's... well, done a lot of things. He seems to know stuff about chemistry, physics, nuclear physics... he helped to dismantle nuclear weapons, once lived in an observatory (verrrrry briefly, at the very start)... also knows stuff about forestry, conservation, and - well, pretty much anything.
That was probably a massive display of my ignorance on such subjects, but Wikipedia is only so helpful.
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From what I've heard, Mac strikes me as a chemist who's dabbled in lots of other sciences. Chemistry and physics actually intersect very strongly in a lot of spots, so he could easily be doing the nuclear stuff from a chemistry background.
Sam is supposedly a theoretical astrophysicist, but most of what we see her doing is more engineering - along with some computer science, biology, chemistry, geology and occasional physics.
So, with those two, you could throw just about any science problem at them. Can you give me any more context for what you need?
I started writing it, with Sam at work (she works at *checks* the Department of Aeronautical Research, as some kind of assistant), and Mac turned up and said he'd been sent by the Phoenix Foundation (he traditionally works freelance for them, on a huge variety of things). And then I got stuck...
Mac being generally a problem-solver who's sent in to deal with specific issues, I thought it'd be fairly plausible that he'd turn up at Sam's place of work (rather than these two genius science bods just... run into each other).
Evil terrorist group has hijacked a satellite, added a laser beam, and is planning to blow up "x" city? Mac and Sam have to hijack it back? (I don't know where that came from)
Something with a plane or a rocket? Maybe an experimental plane (F-302 like?) that isn't working right?
A telescope found evidence of alien life and Mac needs help finding whether it's real?
One of these days I'm going to explode and rant about how television (mis)represents science and scientists and how obnoxious (and wrong) mass media's love affair with physics is.
Not that I'm going to have them spout formulae, or equations, or whatever, but I want to start from a sensible basis.
*is scared of the skiense peeps who can kill me with their brainz*
Don't be scared! We're nice, really :)
But it means I'm good at quizzes. *g*
;D
having enough trouble writing my own...
Er...
Perhaps that should read 'I shouldn't just sit around thinking about Stargate all day.' *g*