Small Lights in the Dark

Teleological: (doctrine the universe/all phenomena/natural processes are being directed towards a goal/designed according to some purpose)

Rodney/Sheppard

Sheppard knew about bonding, about re-evaluating your people and your relationships when you spent the majority of your time trusting them to save your life, and they yours. It was almost expected in the military, though he couldn’t contemplate anyone having planned this. This, he thought, as he tipped back towards Rodney’s mouth and the press of Rodney’s hands against his skin, this was like his whole life had been moving in one direction only, had been designed for one purpose, and in the midst of clutching Rodney tightly, he wondered if that purpose was supposed to feel like home.

kate

bluflamingo

Epistemic Community: (not actually a drabble, yet)
a faction/mindset/trans-national networks of knowledge-based experts who define problems and posit solutions

Atlantis’ scientific community; the daily debates involved in keeping Atlantis liveable for humans.

Rodney was often initially dismissed as suffering from extreme hubris, and to those who saw him come running through the gate as the team fired backwards into the diplomatic-disaster of yet another local planet, felt that sooner rather than later they would be proved right.  Unfortunately for their arguments, Rodney’s arrogance never actually progressed to outright hubris – he was as intelligent as he claimed, and more often than not, his thoughts, words and experiments were those that saved the day. Just, not the feelings of the less-than-genius level people that were forced to work within hearing range of his diatribes.

Drabbles in the theme of Stargate: Atlantis, with the eye to memorising a bunch of concepts and definitions. All the fault of kate  who started it off here.

Inexorable:

( Unrelenting; being incapable of changing your positionCollapse )

Information Arbitrage: (risk-free profit)

 And ok. This was supposed to be the text of the cut:

Arbitrage: The practice of taking advantage of a price-difference between 2 or more markets (Atlantis' personnel’s individual valuations of chocolate), through combinations of matching deals (John "sells" his time for chocolate) that capitalises on the imbalance in value, with profit being the difference of the market prices (John gets chocolate for ways that he likes spending his time, whilst selling the cookies to get out of doing things he doesn’t want to do).

Which would then be followed by the text itself. But Dreamwidth is not having the above as the text of the cut. So instead, please follow the chocolate chip cookies.