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Tactics of War [Monday Evening]

Before I begin, I would like to say that I'm impressed with the ingenuity of those who were involved in the attack on Friday. I know little of the details, but if anyone would like to give me a full account, I would be happy to award you with extra credit for this course.

Also, Cameron Mitchell? Please see me after class, thank you.

Now, I had a long and boring lecture planned for you today (in which, of course, I expected you to plot my doom, as it would be an excellent sign of success for you as my students learning the tactics of war as one of my long term goals is to ultimately destroy this planet -- *laughter* Oh, I'm just kidding) but last night I saw this film that I vaguely remember seeing from the early 90's and I wish for you to see it and to write down three shockingly irritating tactics of either the locust-like aliens or the ridiculously stupid Americans.

Being both a commander of an invading force and ex-American military, I have GREAT irritation at this film and feel that it is a wonderful learning tool in how NOT to proceed on either (a) invasion or (b) countering such a genocidal attack.

She looks over at Aeryn and smiles.

And Miss Sun, I particularly look forward to your rather inspired point of view.

Now, please, sit quietly and watch.

Eighth puts in Independence Day

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Sam had spent more than one evening drinking and tearing apart the aerodynamics involved, so she spent a good part of the movie glaring at the back of Janet's head.

Janet just rolled her eyes and sighed very loudly. Because she knew Sam was glaring at her, but if she even glanced in Sam's direction, Sam would probably pretend to be taking notes.

Sam considered asking Janet if she'd signed up for auditions. Surely such a dramatic soul belonged on the stage.

Janet figured Sam was being ridiculous. Couldn't they just ignore each other in peace? But no, Sam was probably thinking up more things to argue about.

Sam pondered launching spitballs at Janet's head, but decided it wasn't worth the bother.

Oddly enough, Janet had just pondered turning around and whispering to Sam to stop glaring at her, but it wasn't worth the bother either. Also, she wasn't sure if Eighth would give them detention just on principle.

~~Sam~~Eighth pondered giving the two glaring small human women detention. But she couldn't really justify it. Yet.

Sam began to develop a headache from all the glaring. Being mad at Janet was hard work.

Janet already had a headache. And she was pretty sure that Eighth was staring at them now. She sighed again and started taking notes.

Sam watched Janet take notes and couldn't figure out what she was taking notes on.

Janet was writing her homework out while the movie was running. Because she was not going to sit here after the movie finished and work on it.

Sam began dozing off to the stupidity of the movie.

Anakin tossed a note at Sam.

Seriously? This movie sucks.

Sam nodded vigorously.

Can you believe people believe those ships would be capable of interstellar travel?

Not a chance in the real world. Just...no.

Sorry I didn't get a chance to tell you stories of comms gone wrong. But I guess mine blinking out probably caused you a bit of heartburn, huh? Sorry about that.

There's still time. And yours and Aeryn's comms and Cameron's audio all went out. If I have gray hair, I absolutely blame you guys.

She thought about not adding the next part, but decided it couldn't hurt.

Rory was really worried.

Anakin read the note and gave Sam a wry smile.

Yeah. She told me. In detail. And at length. I'm never allowed to be thrown into a wall again.

I need to buy her a new cell phone.

He turned his attention back to the movie.

Okay, no way that his computer can talk to their computer. That's ridiculous.

Sam read the note and grinned over at him. She'd extracted a few similar promises over the years, and had them extracted from her.

No luck repairing it?

Don't even get me started on the computer. Or using the cable satellites to defeat the aliens. What if it was just a mistranslation of the light bar? Maybe they took it as an offensive tactic?

I landed on it pretty hard. Hurt like a...well, it hurt.

And speaking of offensive tactics, why didn't they just blow up the planet when they arrived? I mean, seriously.

Anakin paused, then sighed and wrote,

I have a completely random question about an Earth tradition. Could you help me out?

Or release poison gas to kill everybody on the planet, if they were there for the resources. Amateurs.

If I can. What's up?

What's Valentine's Day? I've kind of pieced together 'sex ritual' but it seems like a strange thing for a school to celebrate.

Help an out-of-towner out?

Sam's eyes nearly crossed.

Sex ritual? Who have you been talking to?

Basically, it's a day ~~created by the greeting card industry in a great conspiracy with the liquor industry to lower the self esteem of single people in an effort to get them to buy more alcohol~~ where two people who are dating, or in a relationship, can show each other how much they care about and appreciate their partner.

Practically? It usually involves some kind of gift--flowers and chocolate are standard, but it's nice if the guy can get a little more personal than that.

Um. A prostitute. Thus my theory that I hadn't gotten the full story.

Relationship stuff, huh. Got it. No relationships for me, no reason to worry about Valentine's Day.

Thanks for the information.

And what kind of alien ship is built so that one perfect shot can destroy it? I mean, I've run across them, but you'd think this sort of design flaw would be picked out early in the building stages.

Prostitute?

Yeah, definitely relationship stuff. Though I guess you could send gifts to a platonic friend, if that was your thing. It's not like the police would come arrest you. Especially not in this town.

Glad I could help.

You'd think, wouldn't you? Not to mention, if there is a flaw, don't you think it would be better protected? You can't just fly down a corridor and blow up a ship, or everyone would be doing it.

Not to mention the unprotected nature of that kind of a reaction would probably cause everyone aboard to die of radiation poisoning before they got to wherever they were going.

In town. Met her in the park. Black and white. Looked like Rory. It was strange.

I'd hate to do something that didn't go along with the tradition--give beings the wrong idea or something--but I'll keep that in mind.

I guess radiation poisoning isn't something they want to show in a movie? It's easier to have all of those pretty explosions instead.

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