You don't think that's overselling it a bit? I mean, the initial premise is that they're on a spaceship that's millions of years old...and been flying that whole time...across multiple galaxies...which they managed to teleport to by exploding a planet.

And then once they get on the ship, they spend the vast majority of screen time having human drama about how Rush is a huge sociopath and everyone hates each other. I think there was also occasionally some actual sci fi thrown in...

I'm not sure what you think SGU did so uniquely that SG-1 and SGA didn't. Maybe when they initially showed up and then spent the first four episodes just trying to keep the ship from falling apart, I guess...but that was because the premise was so ridiculous that nobody would believe it otherwise.

No. The word "explore" appears nowhere in the summary and you (or another AC) were the original poster who brought it up.

Hell, the first replier said it was technical verification, *not* exploration.

Damn, forgot about /. eating chevrons again. That was supposed to read "fuck all <J Random Demographic>".

The reparations for WWI were a large part of what made the rise of the Nazi party possible, so condemning a whole country to economic collapse because of what their leaders did more or less caused WWII.

But obviously it's easier to say "fuck all " than to figure out which of their leaders are actually to blame (the Nuremburg trials, for some values of justice).

Well at least you presumably wouldn't have to worry about a condom because of that whole "inter-species breeding can at best produce sterile offspring" thing that Star Trek always seems to be ignoring.

Wait...hmm.

NASA announcement: Arsenic-based life form discovered on Earth circa 2010

Saying "but there's none nearby" loses most of its meaning when we can't even get to our own moon at the moment.

Hell, there could be civilizations inside Jupiter and we wouldn't even know it for another 60 years at least, let alone if they're an entire solar system over...

*Rush and several other angsty-looking crewmembers are looking at a display*
"What's that?"
"That's the galaxy."
*zooms out*
"Now this is Pegasus."
*zooms out farther, line bounces around to several different blobs and keeps going*
"What's that, more planets?"
"No, those are each galaxies. We're about...12 galaxies away, now."
"OH SHI-"

(heavily paraphrased)

I wish we could call for a vote of no confidence in our government or something.

Also I would LOVE it if we had double dissolutions when our legislative houses deadlock on stuff like keeping the government open. Unfortunately of course, the country is gerrymandered five ways from Sunday so I'm sure such an election would have little to no actual effect.

These are the guys they hire to feel bad about the whole thing and publicly wring their hands.

Depending on how fast they're going when they snag you, the perpendicular force would actually make it worse, I imagine.

Weight.

Note it says "first NASA exploratory mission to use ion propulsion to enter orbits," not "to enter orbit." They're talking about using them to maneuver when it gets to its targets. Then later on in the article:

Why does every flight have to explore?

You got a source for that decrompression bit? The Wikipedia article doesn't mention any in-flight problems, but then again their whole coverage of Buran is pretty sparse.

(This article is in fact #3 in a Google search for "Buran decompress")

Literally the first sentence of the summary says it's a Delta IV.