Earth's Iris

[XFire]

Question: How is it stored in the gate. Obviously there are the massive curved things, but where do they go when its open?

[freyr's mother]

Question: How is it stored in the gate. Obviously there are the massive curved things, but where do they go when its open?

Maybe its an Amorphous solid that reacts to an electrical charge and a program code. Just a thought.

[P-90_177]

Maybe its an Amorphous solid that reacts to an electrical charge and a program code. Just a thought.

you used some mighty big words there. I don't reckon i understand most of them but............................The iris is made out of titanium.............that's pretty solid.

[dboy-2007]

this is actually a really good question but i've no idea how it works and ive always wondered about it

[rlr149]

you used some mighty big words there. I don't reckon i understand most of them but............................The iris is made out of titanium.............that's pretty solid.

clicky

something like that

its an oil with particles of magnetic material suspended in it, reacts in the presence of other magnetic fields,

and you can make it at home its called ferrofluid, i think its the same principle as what freyrs mother was getting at though

[Crazy Tom]

teh latest one is amde of trinium, so don't think it's liquid. and the Iris motions is in fact completly CGI, through the final iris is an insert piece.

[rlr149]

teh latest one is amde of trinium, so don't think it's liquid. and the Iris motions is in fact completly CGI, through the final iris is an insert piece.

never said it was, i said its the same principle idea as

Maybe its an Amorphous solid that reacts to an electrical charge and a program code. Just a thought.

with a video to demonstrate the idea, the sgc are at the 'cutting edge' tech wise so i assume that they have a better version of :'ferrofluid'tm now with added trinium!!'

[umopapisdn]

Maybe there is a gap that is designed to have a sheild put in it, like the gate on atlantis, but they managed to fit a strange iris into it, it could come out like a circular fan. That or it is magic.

[XFire]

I think its the latter.

Unless you started cutting out bits of the SG, which doesn't seem likely, there is no way physically that the blades could be stored.

[rlr149]

I think its the latter.

Unless you started cutting out bits of the SG, which doesn't seem likely, there is no way physically that the blades could be stored.

unless its an amorphous metal like the T1000 in terminator2. then it could 'flow' through a tiny pipe attached to the front of the SG or from the red things about 2/3s of the way up and then re-form itself to the shape programmed

i don't think thats the way its done, but its better than 'magic' as an explanation

[marty2006]

unless its an amorphous metal like the T1000 in terminator2. then it could 'flow' through a tiny pipe attached to the front of the SG or from the red things about 2/3s of the way up and then re-form itself to the shape programmed

i don't think thats the way its done, but its better than 'magic' as an explanation:mckay:

Lolol

[Rivalen]

I made a reference to this in a sticky thread in the Sci and Tech parent thread.

http://forum.gateworld.net/showthrea...=22491&page=16

My post makes sense to me... take it as a possibility.

[Dev Corvin]

it's like a leaf shutter on a camera, just with many more (thinner) blades.

Diagram.

The gate actually has a hollow segment all around the inside where the event horizon forms, practically out towards the outer edge of the gate. The outer skin of the gate forms somewhat of a sandwich around this interior space (you can see it in certain shots from the movie and Children of the Gods).

It's this space that the retracted leaf blades retract into. Considering the scale of the mechanism, fitting into that space isn't actually all that impressive when you consider the budget allocated to the project in the first place, and could be achieved with modern day technology.

What I CAN'T explain, however, is the inner part of the iris; the part which appears to double-back on itself :-\

[wkw427]

Magnets!

But really, it has to be solid. Not liquid, solquid, or anything. It is solod because it makes a grateing noise

[rlr149]

It is solod because it makes a grateing noise

unless it solidifies at the edge of the gate and scrapes part of the gate on the way to the center

and since when did 'noise' allow a predetermination of ALL the physical properties of something? thats worse than the 'magic' comment before