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Originally Posted by photobitstream
Trivia question: On Stargate: SG-1, what does the acronym GDO stand for? (As in, "Don't forget a GDO" before they go through the gate.)
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Good question. I know what it is and what it's for (transmitting the code back to the SGC so they know to open the iris) but I don't think I've ever heard the full name, only the acronym.
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Originally Posted by Holst
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All of H.G. Wells' stuff is good reading but if you really want to get into some vintage SF you need to go back almost another hundred years to the originator of the genre. You might want to start here:
http://www.online-literature.com/verne/earth_to_moon/
Correction: After checking the dates I find the gap between Verne and Wells is much less, more like 25 years instead of the 80 or so I was originally thinking. Verne was still the first to popularize speculative fiction (long before the term science fiction was coined) and produce a sizeable body of work in the genre. From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Mysterious Island, Master of the World, Journey to the Center of the Earth and others are all classics and worth reading (and watching most of the film versions).