Bug? SPOILERS "38 MINUTES", AND "WATERGATE"

[PYRO]

As seen in Watergate (s4) they said that the reason the StarGate did not shut off within 38 minutes is because of the constant radio transmitions with the probe. Which means the StarGate remains active.

Why dident the Atlantis team use this knowledge to their advantege? They could have keep using their radio.

Also (Cant rerember the episode, but has been mentioned) Colonal O'neill kept his arm in the wormhole once to keep the gate active...why dident they use this to their advantege?

[Anthro Girl]

As seen in Watergate (s4) they said that the reason the StarGate did not shut off within 38 minutes is because of the constant radio transmitions with the probe. Which means the StarGate remains active.

It wasn't the radio transmission that was keeping the gate open. I don't remember the exact lines, but it had to do something with drawing power from the alien world, I think.

Also (Cant rerember the episode, but has been mentioned) Colonal O'neill kept his arm in the wormhole once to keep the gate active...why dident they use this to their advantege?

I think the concensus is that Jack came through the gate in "Shades of Grey" but left his hand in instead of coming all the way through. In any case, he wasn't there waiting for more than thirty-eight minutes, so who knows what would have happened if he had been.

[Erik Pasternak]

It was (I believe) a combination of the radio signal and the water's "power" signature that kept the gate open.

[DownFallAngel]

THe living beings that were assumed to be made out of water, with the nuclear MALP, and the radio signal were keeping the gate open.....not just the radio signal.

[Dreamin_of_Rain]

I read the answer to this QU in another post. I belive the answer to the watergate qu is that the gate only has enough power to stay open for 38mins but in watergate there was power being drawn from the planet the gate was opened up on. The gate open any langer then the gate origanal compasity (bad spelling) would take an enormus amount of energy that the Atlantis base could even began to create. There were two other episodes were the gate stayed open longer then 38 mins and in both the gate was ably to draw power from a secondary source. I hope this helps

[Erik Pasternak]

There were two other episodes were the gate stayed open longer then 38 mins and in both the gate was ably to draw power from a secondary source. I hope this helps

Yes, one (or both depending on how you look at it) is "Redemption," the two-part season six opener.

[DownFallAngel]

The other was "A Matter Of Time", also, you forget the episode "Serpent's Song" I think, where SOkar continued to pumell the gate with heat.

[Mio]

The other was "A Matter Of Time", also, you forget the episode "Serpent's Song" I think, where SOkar continued to pumell the gate with heat.

Sokar wasn't firing energy at the gate. He was firing tiny particles that would bombard and heat up the iris due to friction.

[VirtualCLD]

Plus, I didn't think the gate stayed open longer than 38 Minutes, I just thought they couldn't dial out faster tahn Sokar could dial back in.

[Tok'Ra Hostess]

I think the concensus is that Jack came through the gate in "Shades of Grey" but left his hand in instead of coming all the way through. In any case, he wasn't there waiting for more than thirty-eight minutes, so who knows what would have happened if he had been.

And another thing: there were other warm bodies in the wormhole when Jack exited Earthside. Their presence would have kept the wormhole open. All but the last guy pretty much took off right after Jack did. Once an object is entirely inside the wormhole it takes about 5 Hollywood seconds to travel from gate A to gate B. (COTG)

[Keen]

The other was "A Matter Of Time",

No, that was the relativistic effects that Mckay was referring to. In the frame of reference of the planet near the black hole, it was open 38 minutes.

[VirtualCLD]

No, that was the relativistic effects that Mckay was referring to. In the frame of reference of the planet near the black hole, it was open 38 minutes.

Question, why didn't it remain open for 38 minutes the first time? Also, the second, much longer time it was open, I thought they shut it down with a carefully placed, directed energy (aka shaped charge), bomb that diverted teh wormhole to anohter gate and allowed them to shut the gate down normally, not by waiting the equivalent of 38 minutes on the planet aproaching the black hole.

[Ugly Pig]

The other was "A Matter Of Time", also, you forget the episode "Serpent's Song" I think, where SOkar continued to pumell the gate with heat.

I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think the gate remained open for more than 38 minutes in 'Serpent's Song'. IIRC, the gate closed down on time and Sokar dialled in again.

[VirtualCLD]

Plus, I didn't think the gate stayed open longer than 38 Minutes, I just thought they couldn't dial out faster than Sokar could dial back in.

As I mentioned earlier, I agree with Ugly Pig's above post. I'm glad I'm ot the only one who thought that.

[Anthro Girl]

Once an object is entirely inside the wormhole it takes about 5 Hollywood seconds to travel from gate A to gate B. (COTG)

ROFLMAO at the "Hollywood seconds". I'll save that along with my HOS (Hollywood Operating System) idea.