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[pepper]

So, I'm writing a fic, and... I'm completely hopeless at anything sciencey. (Not that Stargate itself doesn't suck majorly at that, too, on occasion, but hey.) So, question, oh brainy ones:

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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[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

:) See, that's why I ask. I know there's a lot of science people in Stargate fandom, and I don't want to write stuff that'll be annoying, if I can avoid it.

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*

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

It doesn't bother me in fandom, since fandom works off what canon gives us. It bothers me in canon when it appears time and time and time again. And I'm usually decent at squinting my way through bad science (I survive the show after all).

Don't be scared! We're nice, really :)

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, think of it as my need to do things correctly, then. *g* I love researching for stories, oh yes. To the point where I'll have a whole bunch of research, and never actually write anything.

But it means I'm good at quizzes. *g*