Hmmm. I think I'd have expected someone to have said something, too, rumors to start, even jokes about "John and Rodney sitting in a tree..." *g* From the science section, maybe, not the military, since speculating openly about their CO wouldn't be good. And Rodney's team probably tip-toes around him, some, but you'd think Zelenka or Kavanagh, yeah, maybe. But that would get them thinking and might hurry up that whole realization thing, or maybe instead cause a backlash-type reaction, in a "Heck, no, we're manly men, show us the babes" way that might actually slow down the action further. Hmmm. I don't think I'd really thought about that aspect before.