In the spring a young geek's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love
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TV and the movies are full of slapdash -- extremely slapdash -- science. A mystical wave of the hand, a chalkboard full of scribbles, and voila! Cold fusion in every home. That gets no respect from me. But the practitioners of that science... well, sometimes they make it look really good.
So you can keep your wild-haired Wolverine with his tanned muscles and adamantium appendages. My lust objects wear glasses and SPF 45. Knowing how to maim and kill is all well and good, but reciting the digits of pi and lecturing co-eds in dusty classrooms is hot.
Here are 20 fictional scientists I just can't stop watching. Take a look at who excites my atoms.
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All those doctors and you forgot Dr. Janet Fraiser? She makes the SGC uniform look good. I guess you could include Dr. Jackson in there too.
steelenz.com/sgc/jackson.html
steelenz.com/sgc/fraiser.html
Don't forget about Dr. Samantha Carter from the StarGate series. She is a physicist; galactic explorer even looks good in camouflage.
you also forgot Dr Christmas Jones ... The World is Not Enough ... (Denise Richards)