Oh, well then, let's see what the transcripts have to say about Rodney "single-handedly" saving the day in BAMSR!
McKAY: It is this recent discovery of the essential duality of this particular stem of the nano sub-code that has opened up a whole new world of possibilities when it comes to the expedient and permanent deactivation of the inter-nanite bonds.
Rodney has the code that runs the Replicators. The Ancients wrote it. All he had to do was use it. There's no "brilliance" in BAMSR at all, just Rodney running a computer program that was written thousands of years ago.
But, you say! He had to figure out what he had and how to use it with the materials at hand! Well, that's what Keller had to do with Michael's research. If medicine were as easy as reading a list of instructions, we'd all be brain surgeons.
You are also making a huge assumption that the "medical research" in Michael's database contained explicit instructions for building the cure for Carson's ailment. NO ONE EVER SAID THAT. For all we know, all they got were bits and pieces of Michael's notes. Actually, that was the implication I'd gotten -- that they don't have every bit of research Michael ever did, all written up in neat detail. What they've got is a huge and fragmentary heap of notes that they're trying to sift through and adapt to work with their equipment and materials. And even having the formula for the cure is a HUGE step from being able to reverse-engineer a version of it that will work.
HOW was what Rodney did in BAMSR with the nanites different from what Keller did in Seed and Queen? He's still taking someone else's technology/breakthrough, trying to understand it and reverse-engineer his own version (with a lot of help from Zelenka, I might add). Why is BAMSR an example of Rodney's brilliance where Seed is not an example of Keller's? What's the difference?
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Re: Part one of my reply to your reply to horridp--OMG AHHH! ^_-
Date: 2008-09-25 07:54 pm (UTC)McKAY: It is this recent discovery of the essential duality of this particular stem of the nano sub-code that has opened up a whole new world of possibilities when it comes to the expedient and permanent deactivation of the inter-nanite bonds.
Rodney has the code that runs the Replicators. The Ancients wrote it. All he had to do was use it. There's no "brilliance" in BAMSR at all, just Rodney running a computer program that was written thousands of years ago.
But, you say! He had to figure out what he had and how to use it with the materials at hand! Well, that's what Keller had to do with Michael's research. If medicine were as easy as reading a list of instructions, we'd all be brain surgeons.
You are also making a huge assumption that the "medical research" in Michael's database contained explicit instructions for building the cure for Carson's ailment. NO ONE EVER SAID THAT. For all we know, all they got were bits and pieces of Michael's notes. Actually, that was the implication I'd gotten -- that they don't have every bit of research Michael ever did, all written up in neat detail. What they've got is a huge and fragmentary heap of notes that they're trying to sift through and adapt to work with their equipment and materials. And even having the formula for the cure is a HUGE step from being able to reverse-engineer a version of it that will work.
HOW was what Rodney did in BAMSR with the nanites different from what Keller did in Seed and Queen? He's still taking someone else's technology/breakthrough, trying to understand it and reverse-engineer his own version (with a lot of help from Zelenka, I might add). Why is BAMSR an example of Rodney's brilliance where Seed is not an example of Keller's? What's the difference?