Why didn't Weir go back to Atlantis?

[Daniel Jackson]

With news that the original Weir is dead, why didn't Weir stay with the real team, go back to Atlantis, have McKay set off an EMP shock to kill her nanites, and then rejoin the Atlantis Expedition? I doubt she'd get back command, but she could be there as an expert on the Asurans or something.

[The_Carpenter]

With news that the original Weir is dead, why didn't Weir stay with the real team, go back to Atlantis, have McKay set off an EMP shock to kill her nanites, and then rejoin the Atlantis Expedition? I doubt she'd get back command, but she could be there as an expert on the Asurans or something.

She wanted to prove that she was still human by sacrificing herself so the real team could escape.

[sueKay]

Daniel Jackson - you've answered your own question...

She knew she couldn't go back because she *isn't* the real Weir...They would never treat her as such and she knew she had to sacrifice herself for them to hold her in the same regard as the real Weir

[IcyNeko]

Having replicator nanites to the extent that Weir had could pose a possible infestation risk if Oberoth was ever able to recode them...

[P2J]

plus it would have make her return to easy. making the real weirs sacrificemeanless

[sueKay]

Icy Neko...

You talking about real Weir or Clone Weir?

[IcyNeko]

There's no "real" weir anymore, so I'd be referring to the "clone" weir. The clones have a ton more replicators, no?

[sueKay]

There's a difference...

Weir's nanites were infestation nanites designed to attack the brain...McKay reprogrammed them to replace actual parts of her brain, thus allowing her to connect to the collective

Clone Weir's nanites were specifically designed to heal, only staying in her body to effect repairs...if Clone Weir were to recieve the same brain injuries as our Weir, the nanites would make new biological synapses, rather than take their place

Therefore Clone Weir and the clone team can't connect to the collective

[IcyNeko]

No, but they were nanites all the same. Microrobots. All Oberoth had to do was connect to the SGclones and recode them to his will, and the microrobots would be working for him.

[sueKay]

There are different types of nanite though...ones with different functions

It could be that these nanites are incapabled of controlling the mind of the body they inhabit

By your reasoning, Jeannie's the same threat to Atlantis and the SGC as the Clone team

[IcyNeko]

Err.. nanites are nanites. It just matters what their base coding says. They don't have a storage cabinet containing nanites for different occasions. There's just nanites, and a code that's passed to them to tell them what to do.

Recall that they made Weir's nanites inert, then they recoded hers to heal her. Then they recoded them to reconnect to the replicator collective. There's only ONE set of nanites.

And yes, Jeannie's a threat to Atlantis and the SGC. Except that her nanites are of weaker construction (the ones in Wallace's daughter "ran out of steam").

[sueKay]

There still tiny robots, and their physical construction will vary...kind of like different types of fly...very similar (they fly around and annoy you) but that's where the similarities end

[IcyNeko]

... uhh no.

You're comparing something that's a combination of molecules to something the size of molecules. That's like comparing a brick to a large metropolis full of brick-laden buildings, saying that each building does different things, then pointing to the brick and saying that it must be different for each building.

Nanites are programmable devices that do what they're programmed to do. They do their work on the molecular level, and all they have to do is sequence DNA to do certain functions. What those functions ARE and how those DNA sequences WORK is what the nanite's programming tells them to do. This is how nanites work. They build stuff.

How do they rebuild organs? They build the cells necessary to rebuild organs.

how do they connect someone to the replicator collective? They build cells that work as a receiver for replicator signals, and build machine components that allow for the components to then reconfigure the host body to do whatever the received commands tell them to do.

Nanites are just THAT simple. There are no different types. There's just ONE type of nanite. Trust me on this. While I may not hold a degree in bio-engineering, this is still an engineering-type of thing, and I received a degree in electrical engineering. We discussed this stuff ALL the time in our upper level classes.

[sueKay]

Okay...the undergrad Politics major is shutting up now lol

[IcyNeko]

Lawl. You can be Weir, I'll be McKay.