I don't understand something, and it’s really starting to bug me. But I make no claim of expertise on these matters, so I'm going to ask about it here. I'm not even sure how to ask this question. I'll give it my best shot though, beg your indulgence. and ask you to bear with me.
So you can't get from Earth to Atlantis without a tremendous amount of energy. It requires so much energy that the Atlantis team might have made a one way trip to the Pegasus galaxy.
But why couldn't you take the stargate equivalent of an indirect flight back to Earth? Why couldn't the Atlantis team dial a gate closer to Earth and travel there, and then dial a gate even closer to Earth and travel there, and so on until they "gate-hop" to a place close enough to get back home?
I know that indirect flights are a pain, but if it's your only choice then it's your only choice. So why isn't this an option for the Atlantis team? There may be practical problems (knowing the right addresses, for instance), but in principle this seems possible, and it would get around the “not enough energy” problem by dividing up the long trip into a series of shorter ones.
Thoughts? Explanations?
So you can't get from Earth to Atlantis without a tremendous amount of energy. It requires so much energy that the Atlantis team might have made a one way trip to the Pegasus galaxy.
But why couldn't you take the stargate equivalent of an indirect flight back to Earth? Why couldn't the Atlantis team dial a gate closer to Earth and travel there, and then dial a gate even closer to Earth and travel there, and so on until they "gate-hop" to a place close enough to get back home?
I know that indirect flights are a pain, but if it's your only choice then it's your only choice. So why isn't this an option for the Atlantis team? There may be practical problems (knowing the right addresses, for instance), but in principle this seems possible, and it would get around the “not enough energy” problem by dividing up the long trip into a series of shorter ones.
Thoughts? Explanations?
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