I am curious how Stargates are manufactured and placed. Seeing as the Ancients like to think BIG, I imagine that they have a ship that functions as a mining facility for Naquadah and as a manufacturing facility for Stargates and DHDs... It would fly to each designated planet determined by the Ancient High Council and deposit a Stargate with a DHD there... I hope this is explained! We haven't come across any ancient mines of Naquadah except the Gou'ald's. God I love Ancient tech...
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Originally posted by AncientOneI am curious how Stargates are manufactured and placed. Seeing as the Ancients like to think BIG, I imagine that they have a ship that functions as a mining facility for Naquadah and as a manufacturing facility for Stargates and DHDs... It would fly to each designated planet determined by the Ancient High Council and deposit a Stargate with a DHD there... I hope this is explained! We haven't come across any ancient mines of Naquadah except the Gou'ald's. God I love Ancient tech...
The "how the stargates got there" question has puzzeled many, in a clip i have somewhere *looks* David Hewlit (Makay) reads the question "How did the Ancients get the gates on the planets with only puddle jumpers?" His answer was "Don't know"
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Hopefully we will find out in Season 9 with the team exploring the origns of the Ancients and the Gatebuilders, which is on Gateworld somewhere, which throws open the possibility that the Ancients didnt make the Gates!!!!!
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"One of the things we're going to be exploring in Season Nine is the origin of the Ancients and the Gatebuilders. And it's something I know fans have been sort of very curious about, and have sort of asked to see. And that is one of the things we're really going to be delving into: Who the Ancients really are, and where they came from, and we may even get a chance to go there."
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Maybe the Ancients have really powerfull matter/energy conversion/transportation technology. AKA, they can push a couple buttons and have a gate and DHD fully programmed on the desired planet. A way they could accomplish this is by converting energy into matter using subatomic specifications of the Stargate and DHD.
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So Ancient Scotty would beam a 'gate down to a planet?JACKSON: ...I mean isn't that why we're doing this, all of this? The Stargate program, the budget? Isn't it so we can go and meet new races, gather advanced technology and possibly learn about ourselves in the process?
VALA: Oh, come on! you do it to meet women.
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LANDRY: I've been thinking I need to get out on an offworld mission or two.
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That'd be a very impressive piece of technology. It'd take ZPM amounts of energy to do that, but I guess that's what they had. They'd also have to be close to the planet to start beaming, because who knows what'll happen if they just send the beam on a 22 year jouney to a random class-M planet.
I'm still sticking with the theory that the Ancients just went around the universe in large gateships(not puddlejumpers) and planted 'gates this way.JACKSON: ...I mean isn't that why we're doing this, all of this? The Stargate program, the budget? Isn't it so we can go and meet new races, gather advanced technology and possibly learn about ourselves in the process?
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The stargate doesn't make energy out of nothing. It takes it out of matter. Matter contains phenominal amounts of energy.JACKSON: ...I mean isn't that why we're doing this, all of this? The Stargate program, the budget? Isn't it so we can go and meet new races, gather advanced technology and possibly learn about ourselves in the process?
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...Or you could just assemble the gates and hand-place them on planets!JACKSON: ...I mean isn't that why we're doing this, all of this? The Stargate program, the budget? Isn't it so we can go and meet new races, gather advanced technology and possibly learn about ourselves in the process?
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They do have FTL ships, though. With good sensors, it wouldn't take THAT long.JACKSON: ...I mean isn't that why we're doing this, all of this? The Stargate program, the budget? Isn't it so we can go and meet new races, gather advanced technology and possibly learn about ourselves in the process?
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You are right, technically the ships don't travel faster than light, but I know what you mean. However even with incredibly fast ships, they would need to stop at each individual planet. This would be like having a car that can go a thousand miles per hour, you only need to use it to go 10 meters, normally this trip would be incredibly fast, however there is one condition of using this car, you must stop every milimeter. Now this journey would take an incredible amount of time.
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Who says that people have to be in that car? The ship could be robotic.JACKSON: ...I mean isn't that why we're doing this, all of this? The Stargate program, the budget? Isn't it so we can go and meet new races, gather advanced technology and possibly learn about ourselves in the process?
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It is possible but then the Ancients would have had to build a fleet of gate distribution ships. The point is not whether or not there were people in them, the fact is that it would still take a very long time to distribute all of the gates. I am not saying that it is not a possibility, I am just saying that a much faster way would be a huge matter/energy rearanger/transporter/converter.
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