The PoO of other planets

[Stricken]

You know when they go offworld and when they come back to the DHD they now which is the Point of Origin because its different, but heres what gets me when they press one which is on ALL the DHD and it has been done, how do they know which one to press??

[lionel_pendergast_rocks]

i forget which episode, but in one of them, they said that the point of origin is the symbol that is unique to just one gate, so no other gate DHD has that symbol. now that i think about it, carter said something like this in s1's Solitudes, when she found the PoO on the antarctic gate.

[BruceDickinson]

You know when they go offworld and when they come back to the DHD they now which is the Point of Origin because its different, but heres what gets me when they press one which is on ALL the DHD and it has been done, how do they know which one to press??

This has been discussed before, and now it reminds me of that new commercial where they have all the thread and the guy says, "The matrix is not perfect"

It's kinda like the whole everyone speaks English thing, it would get old in an hour long TV show, minus commercials of course, if 15 minutes were always dedicated to translation, it would get very old.

The thing that makes most since is to assume our physics has advanced to the point where we can calculate what the symbols based on a scan of the symbols on the other side of the gate when the remote device scans the DHD and possibly even the night sky. Then use the process of elimination to find the left over symbol that is not a constellation.

"The Stargate is not perfect."

[mazzmatazz]

Plus there's the whole 'sometimes they only dial 6 chevrons 'cause the dhd has a built in PoO' thing.

[briguy213]

why dont all gates do that. It would be a much less hastle

[Qasim]

Different versions probably

[BruceDickinson]

Different versions probably

Stargate v2.1 eh? or were the 7 sign gates the beta?

Hopefully we'll get to see Carter explain how to do something over a com and have to explain what version of the Stargate OS that particular gate is running.

[mazzmatazz]

Stargate v2.1 eh? or were the 7 sign gates the beta?

Hopefully we'll get to see Carter explain how to do something over a com and have to explain what version of the Stargate OS that particular gate is running.

They obviously haven't upgraded to Wormholes Tau'ri then

[Mclean]

Does the gate not go back to its starting point with the top chevron resting on the PoO so when you start dialing you look at the gate to see the final chevron you need to input.

[Gmandex]

You know when they go offworld and when they come back to the DHD they now which is the Point of Origin because its different, but heres what gets me when they press one which is on ALL the DHD and it has been done, how do they know which one to press??

They just do.

[Sikon]

The thing that makes most since is to assume our physics has advanced to the point where we can calculate what the symbols based on a scan of the symbols on the other side of the gate when the remote device scans the DHD and possibly even the night sky. Then use the process of elimination to find the left over symbol that is not a constellation.

All Stargates use the same 38 constellation symbols, only the POO varies. And even it varies in name only because all props seem to have identical symbol sets. For instance, in COTG, the Abydos and Chulak Stargates can be seen to have Sun-over-Pyramid.