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Not in my experience. I've pieced some things together, but unless I directly asked or it was relevant like medical history, my parents don't really talk about their childhoods.

It's a large boulder (the size of a small boulder) about 4ft wide, never seen more than waist height, a little closer to one of the "walls" of the quarry.

I'll have to find an episode with it. It's mostly visible after season 1 and before season 8 or 9. Idk what happened to uncover/bury/move it, but it does move like twice during the show, even though I'm positive it's an actual rock and not a prop.

I want to say the first time I noticed it was during the episodes where they're trying to rescue Bra'tac and Ry'ac from the mine? After tretonin was developed. (Ry'ac says "it is hard to ration that which you do not have" when Bra'tac pretends to be taking his tretonin)

When I see it again, I will definitely post to Chevron 7.

Don't quote me on this, because I can't remember the specific episode, comic, or book, but I vaguely remember the ancients settled places thy were most like their original homeworld of Alterra, and gave them the best comfort overall. That just happened to be what the Pacific Northwest region of North America looks like, so most of the planets are still pretty close to that. Some obviously have continued morphing over the millennia, but it makes a nice explanation for why everywhere looks like the same 30 mile area around their BC studio lol.

At the time they didn't really know much about the ancients, definitely didn't know that Atlantis took off from Antarctica 5 million years ago...

That's fair, however it always felt a little weird for the scientist of all people to make such a broad generalization.

Always one of my favorite parts of that episode.

You can see a decent bit depending on terrain in most places, more if the terrain is higher than surrounding areas, but she pops out of a crack, looks around and sees ice for a few hundred yards, and gives up.

In fairness, without direction, some form of marker, or obvious landmark, wandering around in a blizzard would have been death for both of them... Not that they would have been able to walk to civilization even if they DIDN'T have injuries...

Still though, they've experienced varied terrain in plenty of planets, so assuming the whole planet is ice is something Sam would have corrected someone else on in a heartbeat. (and also made the argument that for all intents and purposes, for them it may as well be a whole planet)

I wonder how much better we could have had it if the location budget were like 4x what they had. Eventually you start to recognize specific rocks in the quarry... My wife likes to call one rock Terry because it has two vaguely eye-shaped holes, and "because it's terrible how often they use that place"

Only if you're stuck in a mindset of "it's valuable even if literally nobody wants it enough to make it"

Hey now, that costs extra!

all of the above

I saw the title and definitely thought this was about something else...

No. I don't think I will.