Well, then maybe he should spend five hours every morning carving that into his face

His name is Alex.

The character that he created in that montage, sure, it was implied that she was based on Sam. But Nola was certainly not created by Rodney at all. At best, Rodney just influenced her fashion sense.

Didn't he just base her on Sam?

Because Maul would never kill a main character

Indeed

Yeah, he'd win easily. He's a main character so he has plot armour.

If you read the date in DD/MM/YYYY format then it's the 29th month. Sure. But If you consider it from an alien perspective, that 29 must mean the number wraps round, right? So finding the stone is simply a matter of taking the remainder. 29 % 12 = 5. May. Emerald. Checkmate, false gods.

He already chose emerald and was lying about making it for her, because it means he can:

• determine Her birthday if he doesn't already know (or forgot)
• practice salesmanship skills, see if she's attached to the product already
• test how willingly she lies/plays along with a lie; the implication is that she gets a free emerald if it is her birthstone, he wants to see if she's greedy enough to do that

Or maybe he's just teasing

Yea, I agree

For this particular birth date, sure, there is no ambiguity as to what date format is being used. But what if Sam's birth date was actually 05/12/63? What if it pulled up the profile of a new recruit with a birth date of 06/08/02? Is that the year 2002 or 2006? Is that June or August? That is where the more logical date format standards come in. In a utopia where everybody used some variation of Y-M-D, there would be no ambiguity and everything would be sunshine and rainbows.

ISO 8601 was first published in 1988 and is almost as good

oh, good catch

I kinda forget how computers were the Wild West way back before standards.

The programmer should have used RFC 3339 instead.

Looks like that standard was published over a year after that episode aired. Not to mention that in-universe, the psych profile system seen there was likely created long before that, even.

Well, I guess Orlin is just stupid then.

This date has only one combination that isn't impossible and D/M/Y is the most common date format in the world (Even though Y-M-D is superior).

D = Day, M = Month, Y = Year

| 29 | 12 | 68 | Impossible | |

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| ---------- | | D | M | Y | | | D | Y | M | M | | M | D | Y | M | | M | Y | D | M,D | | Y | D | M | M | | Y | M | D | D |

If she was conceived in May and born 3 weeks premature then she could have been born in December.

He might not have realized Earthicans concepts of birth/conception and given her the birthstone of her conception date.

When I see a date like that, I just give up, don’t read it, and make something up instead.

That was how it was displayed in her USAF psychological profile. That is probably not what Orlin saw. But regardless, whatever date format you use, I don't think you can write that date in such a way that a reasonable person confuses it with May. If it was the fifth day of the month, sure, I can imagine making that mistake. But 29?

29/12/68 is a terrible way to write a date. No wonder he was confused.

The programmer should have used RFC 3339 instead.

I also chose C# and Java, and I told anyone who would listen that C# is beautiful and friendly and intuitive, while Java hates you, your family, and everyone that you’ve ever met. But Java gets you a job-a.

And not even three-letter agencies could talk them out of mandating Apps Hungarian.

The US airforce runs the Stargate program don't they? It would make sense for them to use some middleware to align with the rest of the bureaucracy. Microsoft probably won the "Acivate the Stargate" request for proposal.

I singled out python because snake.

Quick Goa'uld-ified Python logo:

It could also be the earth gate program is written in c# so they prototype on the digital twin in area 51 to see how it goes.

I singled out python because snake.