rush-keating:

nerdfishgirl:

I usually don’t share much online…but since I’ve kinda gotten to know several people here *raises head above couch i’m hiding behind* and since we’re about to rewatch SGU, i thought I might share this…sorry its kinda long.

When people say fictional characters don’t matter…I’m here to tell you…

I think the difference between him and a lot of other scientist characters (even Mr. Spock, who I love immensely) that makes him more relatable for actual scientists is that he’s not always perfect with his science. He’s not a prodigy. I think he’s smart, like a few standard deviations away from the mean smart but that doesn’t make him a born genius. He still is shown working very very hard, and sometimes he still doesn’t know the answer. At the beginning of the series, we see him not knowing how to solve the ‘dialing the 9th gate’ problem and having to embed it in a video game to get help. Later in the series, he genuinely doesn’t know that the ship will fuel itself by flying into the sun. He suspects it will, but he doesn’t want to risk the lives of everyone just based on that suspicion.

This makes him a person, not a human calculator or a source of technobabble.

I look up to Rush a lot myself because of how driven he is. He stops at nothing until he gets the right answer. He was able to get where he is because of his self-discipline and self-confidence. I wish I could be like that all the time.

I wonder what Bobby would think if he knew that 20-something science students look up to Rush…

why dr. rush is responsible for current career