Oh dear... I realised (round about word 1200!! When I thought it was finished) that the Chris and Radek dialogue was based on an idea that is awfully close to that Stargate story (the Rodney-Radek-Daniel one)... after fretting for several hours I though "I don't care, I'm leaving it!!!" and added another couple of hundred words and a dinosaur at the end :)

"Oh," Radek says, staring up, up and up, straight into the eyes of a creature that has not even been discovered in the time they have just left, but which he at least knows way more about than he does American gunslingers, and not just from repeats of bad science fiction, "this is not just bad, this is not just very very very bad. This is the worst."

The massive, flatly reptilian eyes of a duckbilled dinosaur - a dinosaur!!!! - seemed to him to agree.