I'm kinda glad the vaporized-guy-in-doorway turned out to be nothing more than a wacky neighborhood pulsar- I really didn't want Destiny to turn out to be sentient. But crap, they took a piece of my soul when Eli, et al walked through the stargate pretty as you please after being marooned.

When I was in I-rak the first time, we had a surveillance aerostat anchored in a field about 100yds away from my hooch. (behind very big wall) Man, that thing could zoom in with crazy clarity on an any object/person in nearby Baghdad. Unlucky though. One night a chopper flew in low right over my hooch and ran…

The Horse and His Boy FTW. Get beaten your whole life, fight your way to a mystical new land then find out you are a long lost prince of said land? Where do I sign up???

@rek: I find it odd when people bring this point up in this blog. I mean, obviously the subject of this (and many other posts) is a topic inherently interesting to a fair portion of us, we all come together here to read about things that are interesting to us, and this qualifies. Who cares if it is not strictly…

One wonders if ancient humans already thought of this, and there is a stone/lead lined vault somewhere in Mesopotamia filled with 1000 different Rosetta stones, neatly lined up, just waiting to tell us about languages we never even knew existed...(and that our current Rosetta stone was actually a first draft of one…