Be real, he took one look at Sheppard and decided that the jock got to do all the physical exertion. This was long before he started becoming an even vaguely likeable person when not in active peril or faced with someone who was actively dying.

@@ThePCguy17 You don't do sarcasm, do you?

@@leonkernan Your sarcasm didn't come across 1) because it's written in non-emoting text and 2) because Rodney does actually grow a softer side later on that you could well have been mistakenly referring to. Pardon me for failing to understand something that is vague and open to interpretation.

Odd that he had to explain it to Wier twice.

@@JOESMITH-qs8ue I think he was more explaining to Sheppard, but Weir's questions were more to clarify/confirm what's been told to her previously. Or alternatively, the script for one of the scenes was rewritten but the other wasn't changed to account for it.

@@SetekhTia they often don't film in chronological order or same day/week. Someone director, editor etc. misses it , IMHO

shame they didn't think about dumping that power into a ZPM for later🤣🤣🤣

@@raven4k998 The way i understand ZPM's - that would only shatter the universe in a bottle

@@eschatollog9968 and that is why no zpm's for you because we don't need you shattering the universe now

Czech accent in English is very specific, but difficult to describe. It does not sound like other Eastern Europeans. Also, Czech is a phonetic language, which means that everything is read _exactly_ as it is written and this causes Czechs to incorrectly pronounce sylables that are supposed to be deaf in English.

I think Nykl was out of practice in the first season. His normal Canadian accent comes through several times, like the start of this when he says 'Hurricane'.

Pity the Ancients didn't include remote access for their grounding stations :-P.

​@@Ragitsu - I wonder if Rodney and Elizabeth were trolling Shepard by saying there was no remote access. 😉

@@Ragitsu they probably did but it was probably from a remote control station the atalantis expedition had yet to explore/repair after all they were still trying to get several sections working and powered well in to the later seasons and had lots of labs and contol rooms they had yet to discover the use of, plus knowing the ancient such a vital piece of city safety euipment pobably had a command code/password needed for the remote functions so manually is best way to A make sure they can disconnect them and B visually see they have disconnected last thing they would have wanted is a faulty sensor telling them they are all disconnected when one of them is not.

@@Ragitsu I do believe that when they say they had to disable them they mean reach into the guts of a thing that doesn't have an 'off' switch and pull out some important bits that won't damage it permanently if they're removed. This isn't the kind of system you want a hacker to be able to remotely disable since a hacker would also likely be able to flood the city with electricity and this system would be what makes that move futile. Though come to think of it the Ancients definitely weren't humble enough to be planning around getting hacked. But they were at war, so it's possible the Wraith forced them to think laterally and consider the possibility.

@@Ragitsu There probably wasn't one (or an easily accessible one) for the same reason there aren't ways to disable lightning rods on skyscrapers, or automatic brakes on elevators, or the brakes on your car. It's a giant safety system for the entire city, one with (presumably) three redundant grounding stations so that the corridors don't become deathtraps during storms! That's not something you want easily disabled, nor is it something you're probably ever going to want disabled, unless you're repairing the system. If you are repairing it, you'll have qualified technicians on-site. I mean, imagine if three backwater hicks, only one of which has a half-backed idea of how your tech works, decided they wanted to monkey with a system that handles multiple gigajoules of energy. That would be so dangerous!

the funny thing is nerds fear static electric surges from killing their tech part like computers and stuff which begs the question why do the shields not only survive the static electricity but also run off of it?

@@raven4k998 I would assume crystal connections are a lot more static resistant than metal contacts.

@@raven4k998 well if you are going to build something to run off lighting strikes having it survive those would be part of the design process

@@toomanyaccounts yeah except one slight problem with your logic the ancients designed the shields to run off of zpm power not lightning strikes there fore why does the shield not blow when it gets that first lightning strike fed into it? please actually watch the show before assuming that it was designed for lightning strikes when it was not the lightning rods feed the power into the sea not the shields Rodney just half fast rerouted the power to the shield assuming that it could take the power yet you computer cannot take a static shock to power it if you tried you would fry your computer cause it's designed for regular electricity

@@raven4k998 the ancients had lighting rods to channel the energy into the ocean. the system however could be fed by the lighting but that was more of a side effect of the power system design. they just had to have most of the people leave since it wasn't designed to channel the lighting completely. the atlantis team in other wods jury rigged a power source for the shield

so do explosions. yet explosions can be harnessed. firearms are one example

True enough for each individual strike, but it's less of a problem when a megastorm is pounding you with strike after strike for hours.

Up to several Gigajoules per strike. So 1 strike per second is comparable to a very large nuclear plant.

@@harshad1313 the big problem is there is no battery or capacitor that could snatch that intense amount of power without completely being fried.

@@toomanyaccounts except technology from very advanced civilization on a city that can literally travel FTL. 😬

"Magnets."

Off-world?

It's neither, it's just a storm, a very powerful, very big storm. Calling them a tropical storm is a misnomer. In 1993 a storm called Braer developed in the Atlantic, it covered ⅔ of the Atlantic, had air pressure of a force 5 hurricane and wind of a force 3 but was still a storm.

Rodney is a civilian contractor as is Wier.

He would also have to refer to her as "doctor" if he wanted to use her proper honorific. The issue there is that he possesses the same honorific, effectively having the same academic "rank" as her. Thus, it would seem particularly stuffy to refer to her by her honorific.

weirs a civilian. He could call her Dr but thats more a formal thing and not something Rodney would use for general conversation. Later in the series he also stops calling Sheppard by his rank and uses his name.

Yes but the shield works with capacitor kind of system, it charges capacitors and keeps shields up for a certain amount of time, unless shield is being drained by damage on them. Or least that's how i understood it :D

I'm guessing it's a the shield goes down once the powers used up and the next strike recharges the shield.

Yes, once it's activated. But as you can see later in the episode, the idea was to supercharge the entire city, basically turn it into a big capacitor. The stored energy kept the shield up just long enough to block the most devastating super wave from washing away the city. Then the shield collapsed due to a lack of more incoming power, which meant certain decks especially around the back side of the city (from the perspective of where the wave was coming from) still got flooded. This is also why about half a dozen episodes later we get the one with the damaged lab on that side of the city where the replicator nano killer bots have been freed by the lab flooding.

@@Jukantos Was that flooding from the storm? I always thought that was left over from when they found the City. Even when they moved in, there were already sections of the outer part of the city that were flooded.

@@Kboyer36 more got flooded if any sections were damaged when the city rose from the ocean when the shield started to fail

Czech, actually.

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