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1--> ''We need you here, Elizabeth.''
2---> -- '''Dr. Keller'''
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6* AsteroidThicket: The episode in fact references the game "Asteroids" by name, as they deploy Jumpers to blast away the asteroids before they hit Atlantis.
7* TheCaper: [=McKay=] proposes stealing [=ZPMs=] from the Asuran homeworld to save Atlantis, explicitly referring to it as a "heist".
8* {{Nanomachines}}: Now make up much of Dr. Weir.
9* NoGravityForYou: The ArtificialGravity is shut off in the sections being decompressed, so the poor grunts running for safety are left floating just before the shield passes over them and leaves them in vacuum.
10* NoOSHACompliance: The Ancient's paranoia over safety unintentionally turns Atlantis into a deathtrap. The computer, realizing that maintaining the shield at its standard size will result in failure, begins to shrink the shield while decompressing the affected sections and disabling artificial gravity to conserve power. Unfortunately, it does this while people are still in those sections, and the gravity precedes the decompression, leaving those individuals floating helplessly as they're left to die in a vacuum. Granted, these are pretty dire circumstances, but that doesn't change the fact that the system is intentionally dooming whoever gets trapped there to die.

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