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**Gaterholic** · 08 May 2005, 01:11 PM

Well, if you have any specific questions on the facts that the show has put out, or the theories we fans have developed, i'd be gald to help, but youll have to ask directed questions.

There isnt enough space for me to write if your question is just "Stargate: What?"

-GH

**gallywag** · 09 May 2005, 07:57 AM

the way i understand stargates work is they create an artificial wormhole through subspace as you step through the event horizon your melecular structure is demelecularised and transported as energy how eva far your travling 10-100 lightyears dont really matter so long as the gate stays open
ne way back on track when you arive at your destination gate ur melecular structure is reintergrated into matter in exactly the same secrence they went through thats y its impossible to power zpm's like sum 1 wrote a thread on

sorry about spelling mistakes its a hard word to spell

**Qasim** · 09 May 2005, 11:44 AM

See this site

http://www.stargatehandbook.org/sg1/stargatesmain.html

To keep a wormhole open, you have to send something through, even if it's just a radio wave. (Redemption, part 1)

Ordinarily, a wormhole will close within a short period if nothing enters it. (Redemption, part 1)

A wormhole can be maintained for 38 minutes. (There But for the Grace of God, Serpent's Song)

If the stargate is being powered by an alternate source, a wormhole can remain open longer (A Matter of Time, Watergate)

more info on site

from http://gateworld.net/omnipedia/techn...stargate.shtml

A massive, circular ring with an inner track of 39 symbols representing star constellations, capable of sending people and objects hundreds of thousands of lightyears via an interstellar conduit called a "wormhole." The Stargate, constructed millenia ago by the Ancients, is made of the alien mineral naquadah and weighs about 64,000 pounds.

One side of the gate holds nine equally-spaced, V-shaped locking mechanisms, or "chevrons," capable of locking at least seven constellations in place via a freely-spinning inner track. The first six glyphs lock down a point in space, while the seventh represents the point of origin. When the seventh chevron locks, an unstable energy vortex emerges from the gate, incinerating everything in its wake. Once the vortex is gone and the event horizon is established, outbound travel may commence. Once objects have exited the other side, the Stargate has the capability of shutting itself off.

The Stargate network extends beyond our own galaxy, and includes many thousands of gates. Most gates are paired with a dial-home device (D.H.D.), by which a user dials an address to another world. The S.G.C. does not have a D.H.D., and instead has rigged a computer system to access the gate's systems and dial addresses.

In the Pegasus Galaxy, some Stargates have been placed in space in orbit of planets, rather than on their surfaces. Rather than using a connected D.H.D., space-based gates are powered by three power nodes, and dialing is accessed by a panel on a ship.

The Stargate is essentially an enormous superconductor, capable of harnessing power from a wide variety of energy sources, especially electricity. The inner track is a safety feature. When the gate has absorbed enough energy this track will unlock, allowing a manual dial in case something dire has occurred to the D.H.D.

KEY EPISODE(S) -
"Stargate" the movie - Dr. Jackson uncovers the seventh symbol, the point of origin, and opens the Stargate for the first time in nearly 50 years.
Solitudes - Another Stargate, predating the Egyptian gate, is accidentally discovered in Antarctica.
The Fifth Race - O'Neill boosts power to the Stargate allowing for an eighth chevron to lock on to gate coordinates in the Ida galaxy, far further than any previous lock.
Nemesis - SG-1 transports the Stargate to Thor's ship to escape a Replicator infestation; the Antarctic gate is removed from storage and set up at the S.G.C.
Redemption, Part 2 - Anubis' weapon, originally constructed by the Ancients, forces Stargate Command to hoist the Antarctic gate from Cheyenne Mountain into deep space, roughly three million miles from Earth, where it is destroyed. The Russians "loan" the U.S. the Egyptian gate.
Avenger 2.0 - Dr. Felger's lab assistant, Chloe, deduces a potential of 63 billion Stargates in the universe.

also see http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue228/interview.html
and
http://wiki.stargate-sg1-solutions.c...x.php/Stargate

Overview

The Stargate is a device created by the Ancients that permits nearly instantaneous travel between two planets, thus linking them together into a far-flung system. The Ancients, about whom little is known, apparently abandoned the galaxy, but the system of Stargates they created remains. They are in use by people in a variety of cultures on a variety of worlds, many of them peopled by descendents of Earth humans who were removed by the Goa'uld to other worlds to labor. The Goa'uld System Lords freely use the Stargates in conjunction with starships to maintain their far-flung empires, and for a long time, it was thought that the Goa'uld created the Stargate system. Different cultures on different planets have different terms for their Stargates, the most common being chappa'ai.

To render a Stargate inoperable, it is buried.

again more info on site

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