Caller ID

[Lieutenant Colonel Davis]

In Stargate Atlantis you would think the the creators of the 2 known Stargate networks would of created some kind of caller ID at Atlantis. It just boggles the mind that they didn't come up with that Tech when they bulit Atlantis.

[TechnoWraith]

In Stargate Atlantis you would think the the creators of the 2 known Stargate networks would of created some kind of caller ID at Atlantis. It just boggles the mind that they didn't come up with that Tech when they bulit Atlantis.

well, if the number of puddlejumpers that were in atlantis when the team first arrived is any indication, i'm willing to bet that the vast majority of gate travel was via jumpers. And the jumpers most likely had some kind of identifying system in place to make themselves known to Atlantis. No identifier, no access.

[Lieutenant Colonel Davis]

What I mean is when lets say a baddie used a holo device and dialed from a planet, That planets gate address would show up on some console in the gate control room. So then a team could be dispatched to that planet a pacify that bad guy.

[P-90_177]

There probably wasn't that many bad guys for the Atlantians to deal with at first so all the Worlds with gates were friendly. I do agree thought that it would have been useful when the Wraith came about just in case.

[Wick]

In before i sleep i think it was Janus told Weir that he was going to block all incoming wormholes with the forcefield exept earth to me this means that there is a way of detecting a kind of caller id

[Lieutenant Colonel Davis]

In before i sleep i think it was Janus told Weir that he was going to block all incoming wormholes with the forcefield exept earth to me this means that there is a way of detecting a kind of caller id

Janus could of meant that they weren't going to lower the force shield unless radio contact was made from Earth. Or McKay could of used his genius and made something that could detect when a wormhole was established from another galaxy.

[cozzerob]

Radio contact could be faked. unlikely, yes, but these are the ancients, they woiuldn't take the chance - they did things big...

Why would mcKay do it - it was the ancient that said it - 1000s of yrs before mcKay was born. +detecting that it's a wormhole from another whould be harder than a general caller ID system - face it guys - there is a system - we just don't know how to use it. Possibly it's only in the atlantis gates.

[mindfire]

Yeah since Janus had a way to block all incoming addresses except earths then they do have some kind of identification system.

[LORD MONK]

I think they should have some way of communicating back. You dial the gate, send your IDC, then you get conformation that it is OK.

[freyr's mother]

The first scene in rising 1 shows a puddlejumper flying through the city's shield. Most likely the same type of shielding is used for the iris on the gate. If all gate travel was done by puddlejumper, there would be no need for idc's. The gate would activate, the gateshield would go up, puddlejumper goes through shield, any pursuers get crushed.

[SmallTimePerson]

there would be some way to find where an incoming wormhole was coming from (possibly to do with the point of origin), but this may be an "optional feature" of the gate which hasn't been activated/atlantis team doesnt know how to use it.

[ItsDan]

In developing software I often place features into the system for when I need to debug, or need additional information that the user normally doesn't need. I would bet the gate's will respond to commands which aren't normally used, such as a 'Who are you?' query.

Also, Atlantis may very well be able to detect the source of the gate, but they haven't found that 'button' yet.

[plaw15]

In Stargate Atlantis you would think the the creators of the 2 known Stargate networks would of created some kind of caller ID at Atlantis. It just boggles the mind that they didn't come up with that Tech when they bulit Atlantis.

That's a good Idea. That's possible.

[Magneto]

In one of the sg-1 episodes (i think it was either the one where tealc got stuck in the gate or the one where they let the wormhole pass though a sun), mckay said theres hundreds of signals the gate uses to communicate with the dhd, i think its a safe bet something as simple as caller id would be part of them.

[ItsDan]

Magneto, exactly, and there's probably a lot of communication going on between the two stargates themselves, such as a message by the receiving gate that it's ready to receive data, etc.