Pics of Ancient Scanner

[NowIWillDestroyAbydos]

I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but what that the heck.
Post pics of the Ancient Scanner or add links

[Wass]

I’m not sure what your asking but if your wondering what the purpose of it is it detects the wraith by showing the dots on the scanner.

[_Owen_]

No I think that we are supposed to post pictures of the Ancient Life Signs Detector.

Owen Macri

[MarshAngel]

You know, currently we backwards humans have video cameras in stores, street corners, elevators, on the back of vehicles, in fake eye glasses, small cell phones and small enough to enter the human body. I'd think video of the city's corridors would be highly useful not just for surveillance but for detecting problems. Shouldn't the millions of years wise ancients have had something similar?

I find this scanner a little deficient in that it doesn't seem to offer a view of anything but faceless little dots, which while nice is limited. And if I remember correctly it doesn't differentiate between human and Wraith (of course that could be because they don't know how to use it to the fullest).

Wouldn't it offer a tactical advantage to be able to zoom in and actually see video of intruders. That way you'd know what they were up to before you went after them?

[_Owen_]

I agree you would think that the most powerful race that we have ever known would have somekind of audio-visual recording device.

Owen Macri

[gallywag]

perhaps but the ancients were like 1 big family y wud they need them for unless they were purposly gonna allow ppl in the city that were gonna cause harm or destruction like thw wraith no 1 could get in ne way because of the shield

[_Owen_]

That is true, but then the usefulness and purpose of several other pieces of technology could be questioned as well. Such as the life signs detector that is built into Atlantis, if they were one big family and no one could get in, then why did they need this piece of technology. Remeber it can't diferentiate between individual people, and at that point in time Atlantis was fully populated, so if you are going to say, incase they needed to find someone that reason would not be plausible.

Owen Macri

[buckner]

You know, currently we backwards humans have video cameras in stores, street corners, elevators, on the back of vehicles, in fake eye glasses, small cell phones and small enough to enter the human body. I'd think video of the city's corridors would be highly useful not just for surveillance but for detecting problems. Shouldn't the millions of years wise ancients have had something similar?

I find this scanner a little deficient in that it doesn't seem to offer a view of anything but faceless little dots, which while nice is limited. And if I remember correctly it doesn't differentiate between human and Wraith (of course that could be because they don't know how to use it to the fullest).

Wouldn't it offer a tactical advantage to be able to zoom in and actually see video of intruders. That way you'd know what they were up to before you went after them?

How could the device zoom in and see someone? That would be near impossible. It would have to see through walls and such.

[_Owen_]

That is not outside the ancients realm of capability.

Owen Macri

[buckner]

How could it be done?

[_Owen_]

Phase-shifting. For one thing.

[_Owen_]

They could have invisible flying cameras that will fly to were ever you want them.

Owen Macri

[buckner]

that is a little out there

[_Owen_]

Oh ya

[buckner]

but they could have it

[_Owen_]

It is very possible.

Owen Macri

[Jprime]

Pretty well all scifi computers are hopelessly backward. In Star Trek for example, in one episode Riker gets beamed away and nobody notices until he's late for work. They ask the computer where he is, and it replies that he's not onboard the Enterprise. What kind of brilliant multi-deck spanning computer can't realize that this is an important thing to inform people about? Don't give me crap about how its not technologically feasible to track everybody on a ship of 1000, we could do it today, given enough resources. Also, in pretty much everything we see datapads in one form or another. Thats pathetic. Why not wire it all into cerebral input/output implants? We know its possible, Togar did it in 'Urgo'. Races like the Ancients and the Asgard are insanely backward in this regard. Thor commands his ship by manually sliding around stones on the board! Its not even on voice commands!

Yeesh. :S

[_Owen_]

That is a good point, there are many aspects of technology and the way the technology is set up that could easily be altered to better suit our needs. However the reason that it is not is because if everything in the show was perfect they would not have a story.

Owen Macri

[MarshAngel]

How could the device zoom in and see someone? That would be near impossible. It would have to see through walls and such.

Perhaps I wasn't being clear enough. What I meant was that on that hand held scanner, you should be able to switch modes so you can see actual video rather than little dots. I was thinking that the scanner would be able to tap into any one of a series of cameras that would allow them to see specific locations.

[_Owen_]

That could work, but it would only work on Atlantis.

Owen Macri

[AtlantisForever]

I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but what that the heck.
Post pics of the Ancient Scanner or add links


I WANT 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D

[_Owen_]

A picture or an ancient scanner?

Owen Macri

[Macilnar]

A picture or an ancient scanner?

Owen Macri

I would like an Ancient Scanner :D

[Macilnar]

I really want Atlantis and everything in it :D

[_Owen_]

Join the club, I think just about everyone does.

Owen Macri

[Macilnar]

Join the club, I think just about everyone does.

Owen Macri

Wow I replayed after you yet some how it shows me posting at the same time as you, yet I posted the second post after seeing your post. How odd.

[_Owen_]

That is strange, it is possible that you posted within the same minute as I did, the time does not show the seconds. But also my post should be before yours. it is probably just a glitch.

Owen Macri

[Macilnar]

Must be.

[_Owen_]

I can't think of any other reason.

Owen Macri