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    Beaming technology

    Why did the ancients not have beaming technology in their cities and ships. I mean they have a basic version of it in the form of the city transport system, those lift like things, but why not anything more advanced? Surely the asgard arent more advanced than what the ancients were?

    #2
    Originally posted by al87013
    Why did the ancients not have beaming technology in their cities and ships. I mean they have a basic version of it in the form of the city transport system, those lift like things, but why not anything more advanced? Surely the asgard arent more advanced than what the ancients were?
    they had the ring transporters and stargates. how more advanced could they get?

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      #3
      The Asgard have had 10,000 years more then the Ancients to advance their technology, who says the Asgard couldn't have invented the Beaming technology AFTER the Ancients left? Maybe it was based of sciences that the Ancients provided the 4 great races. Or more likely, it was something the Asgard got from Furling technology since their "Paradise" transporter was closer to Asgard beams the the Ancient rings.

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        #4
        Actually the beaming technology of the Asgard utilise similar matter deconstruction techniques to Ancients. It also utilises similar subrutenes that the Gates and furling transporters use to distinguish matter groupings. The same as Wraith Beams only Asgard beams are more long range and more soffisticated. It is very possible that all this technology is derived from the knowledge of the Ancients. We already know that the wraith got their technology from the Ancients. We also know that the Asguard have been working on the database of of the Ancients for many milenia and have still barely scratched the surface of it. Its very likely that even superior technology is stored in it since we know that the Asgard have nowhere near the superior intellectual capacity of the Ancients so the Ancients would have surely have already developed these basic principles to a far greater level. Remember those increadibly efficient rematerialisation process that we saw take place on merlins stack of gold in Avalon.

        As for Atlantis maybe they havn't discovered them and maybe its due to the obvious technological differences between the Pegusus Lanteans and the Milky way Alterrans. The milky way Alterrans have shown more technology and superior phisiology to Atlantis (cosmetic appearance aside). The reasons for this belong in a different thread.

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          #5
          still why use ring technology when u have the knowledge to build beaming technology, it doesnt make any sense. Surely beams are more useful than rings.
          Oh and i thought the asgard got the ancient database downloaded from oniell not 10000 years ago so they couldnt have been working on the ancient knowledge for that long!

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            #6
            The ring system seems safer though. They haven't really needed desperately anything more than the gate and the transport rooms.
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              #7
              Rings also automatically acquire the coordinates for another set of rings while beaming technology cannot do that. Beaming technology seems to require heavy use of sensors. While rings look safer in that regard as there is almost no chance of a person being beamed into a wall.

              Also its entirely possible that the Ancients didnt have the beaming technology...the principle was there but they never applied it.


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                #8
                Originally posted by al87013
                Oh and i thought the Asgard got the ancient database downloaded from O'Neill not 10000 years ago so they couldn't have been working on the ancient knowledge for that long!
                Thor said that the asgard found a repository of knowledge a long time ago, so they have had access to ancient knowlege since long before O'Neill got his first download.
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                  #9
                  Maybe the ancients had the tech maybe they didnt who knows? Perhaps they just didnt like using beaming tech that much so only built the rings to give the users a feeling of security same as the "lift" system on atlantis
                  the very young do not always do as they are told...

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                    #10
                    Thought we saw it in episode when elizabeth travel in time to when atlanteans were still left on atlantis, there puddle jumper came under attack in orbit and thought it was destroy in orbit but the ancient beam her of there before it was destroy by the wraith. Or may be they she survive some other way. But at the rate we seem to be exploring atlantis, it may take until season 5 or 6 to discover them.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by ItsDan
                      The ring system seems safer though.
                      unless u make the mistake of standing slightly to far to the right when those rings come down...

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                        #12
                        Still remember that baem that rematerialied that whole heap of gold in Merlins Avalon. That must be the Ancients beaming technology.

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                          #13
                          Maybe the beaming tech has unwelcome effects after long term use? like for example steralising/neutering the transported person, turning them grey and making them 4 foot tall?

                          Our understanding of ancient tech has leaped forward inthe past 2 years but like the asgard we havent even scratched the surface. Maybe the tech is in there or something similar, and in the years since the ancients disappeared the asgard have developed their tech from bits and peices the ancients had.

                          We have elevators and moving walkways etc... but still put stairs in buildings...why?

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                            #14
                            Those are some interesting points actually. However being the pinnacle of transportation i still would have expected them to use beaming technology more than rings. Plus the puddle jumpers and atlantis doesnt have rings.
                            Btw does anyone know the name of the episode of atalantis when they went back in time??
                            Didnt watch much of atlantis season 1 as was too immersed in sg1 season 8.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Count
                              The Asgard have had 10,000 years more then the Ancients to advance their technology,
                              really it would have been more, as the anceints would have spent most of their time seeding life on new worlds when they arrived in PG millions of years ago. Also the db from o'niel's mind that the asgard are probably using would be millions of years outdated

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