1) If you are a dude, dressing as a woman might get you out of a bad jam, even if you aren't really fooling anyone. But it will always be hilarious. Especially to your comrades. (Goes for women too, but isn't really as funny.)
2) Every ship (space, air, water, dimension) has a doctor, medic, or scientifically inclined person. machine, or hologram-program for those, um, organic emergencies. Sometimes you have to threaten, draft, capture or reprogram the above to do this job, but the entity will always be there if you need one and search hard enough.
3) With all energy transporting devices, where you stand/float when you turn said devices matters a lot. Also, double check the end destination to avoid nasty surprises. Check twice. Even if there is nothing there. Especially if it seems nothing is there.
3) Secretaries, admins, interns, executive assistants, second-in-commands, aides and such are always smarter and wittier than their boss, are ignored and undervalued by said boss, and pretty much can run everything with their eyes closed without the boss. If they wanted to. They don't. If they want anything, they want the boss.
4) Want to see how well a guy holds up under stress? Corner him. Take away his pants. Better yet, take away all of his clothes. Strand him sans-garments. Check out his poise and bravado. This is always unfailingly hilarious, too.
5) Unless you are Santa Claus, nothing good ever happens in permanently cold places.
6) If a planet seems too good to be true, it is. GET OUT NOW.
7) If you are a dude and some really pretty chick offers food/flowers/a special dance/Pokemans to you and not to anyone else, GET OUT NOW unless you are desperate to be married. Note: This never happens to anyone who wants to be married.
8) If you are chick and some smelly, boorish gross dude asks your companion if you belong to him, lose the feminist attitude and SAY YES unless you want to go live in the disgusting dude's harem. Note: This never happens to the female comrade with the loose morales and the energizer-powered libido. This always happens to the liberated, tough chick who is in love with one of her male comrades but doesn't know it/won't admit it yet.
9) In space, almost everyone wears the same thing, or the same three things, every day, even if it's not a uniform. On Earth, no one ever wears the same thing twice unless it's a uniform.
10) On Earth, all grocery trips include a loaf of French bread and celery in a paper or canvas bag. In space, or in the future, grocery trips include blocks of something-something and blue fruit in some sort of plastic tote. In less-evolved locations, groceries are always carried in large baskets, and include piles of fruit and often a round loaf of bread wrapped in a cloth. Apparently, no one in any era eats frozen food, loose grains, Coke or Frankenberry, or picks up a package of AA batteries, toilet paper or trash bags while at the store.
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2) Every ship (space, air, water, dimension) has a doctor, medic, or scientifically inclined person. machine, or hologram-program for those, um, organic emergencies. Sometimes you have to threaten, draft, capture or reprogram the above to do this job, but the entity will always be there if you need one and search hard enough.
3) With all energy transporting devices, where you stand/float when you turn said devices matters a lot. Also, double check the end destination to avoid nasty surprises. Check twice. Even if there is nothing there. Especially if it seems nothing is there.
3) Secretaries, admins, interns, executive assistants, second-in-commands, aides and such are always smarter and wittier than their boss, are ignored and undervalued by said boss, and pretty much can run everything with their eyes closed without the boss. If they wanted to. They don't. If they want anything, they want the boss.
4) Want to see how well a guy holds up under stress? Corner him. Take away his pants. Better yet, take away all of his clothes. Strand him sans-garments. Check out his poise and bravado. This is always unfailingly hilarious, too.
5) Unless you are Santa Claus, nothing good ever happens in permanently cold places.
6) If a planet seems too good to be true, it is. GET OUT NOW.
7) If you are a dude and some really pretty chick offers food/flowers/a special dance/Pokemans to you and not to anyone else, GET OUT NOW unless you are desperate to be married. Note: This never happens to anyone who wants to be married.
8) If you are chick and some smelly, boorish gross dude asks your companion if you belong to him, lose the feminist attitude and SAY YES unless you want to go live in the disgusting dude's harem. Note: This never happens to the female comrade with the loose morales and the energizer-powered libido. This always happens to the liberated, tough chick who is in love with one of her male comrades but doesn't know it/won't admit it yet.
9) In space, almost everyone wears the same thing, or the same three things, every day, even if it's not a uniform. On Earth, no one ever wears the same thing twice unless it's a uniform.
10) On Earth, all grocery trips include a loaf of French bread and celery in a paper or canvas bag. In space, or in the future, grocery trips include blocks of something-something and blue fruit in some sort of plastic tote. In less-evolved locations, groceries are always carried in large baskets, and include piles of fruit and often a round loaf of bread wrapped in a cloth. Apparently, no one in any era eats frozen food, loose grains, Coke or Frankenberry, or picks up a package of AA batteries, toilet paper or trash bags while at the store.
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