Beaming An Active Stargate

[StargateWatcher]

Anybody ever wonder what happens if you try to either beam in or beam out an active stargate? I wonder if it's even possible.

[maneth]

Hmmm, good question. Certainly immaterial beings can use the stargates, as shown by Oma.

[Count]

They can't be beamed. It was tried in "Off the Grid", the Odyssey could not get a lock on an active stargate SG-1 was using to escape despite having a transponder lock.

[StargateWatcher]

They can't be beamed. It was tried in "Off the Grid", the Odyssey could not get a lock on an active stargate SG-1 was using to escape despite having a transponder lock.

Should noticed that, lol. Was one of my more favored episodes too.

Thanks for pointing it out. Guess the active event horizon for some reason prevented the beamout.

[steventgk]

i thought they removed the locator beacon so Odyssey wouldn't beam it out while they were trying to use it which is slightly stupid as you'd think if there was enough time sg1 would have got beamed off with the gate if they would have left it on, thus still being saved.... though one wonders what would happen if they were half way across the event horizon and the other half got beamed off

[StargateWatcher]

i thought they removed the locator beacon so Odyssey wouldn't beam it out while they were trying to use it which is slightly stupid as you'd think if there was enough time sg1 would have got beamed off with the gate if they would have left it on, thus still being saved.... though one wonders what would happen if they were half way across the event horizon and the other half got beamed off

These is some very interesting points to consider related to transport-beaming a stargate currently activated stargate.

Another possible example of erroneously-planned action scene devising.

[selene0789]

I've been considering the inability to beam someone from within an active wormhole/matter stream, and I think this is more a case of Earth's rudimentary technology than an impossibility of physics.

See, I think the problem arises because Earth was locking onto subcutaneous transmitters, which are themselves dissolved into so many molecules once they enter the event horizon. Even if they could lock onto the particles of the transmitters, how could they know that they got all the molecules belonging to that individual's body of matter? How could Earth differentiate between particles if more than one person is in the wormhole at one time?

Now, I believe the Asgard would have a better chance at succeeding. They would be able to lock onto a genetic signature-- and perhaps even a molecular one-- and thereby more accurately pinpoint that signature's location. I shudder to think what might have happened if Earth had tried to do it. I get horrific images of splinched bodies and grotesque ends to our most beloved characters...