survival gear?

[unluckynumber11]

shouldn't the atlantis teams have gas masks as part of their survival gear? they probably should have had time to put them on.

[jenks]

They were on what was essentially supposed to be a diplomatic mission.

[Pharaoh Atem]

shouldn't the atlantis teams have gas masks as part of their survival gear? they probably should have had time to put them on.

sg1 never did

[JackHarkness_Hot]

Well when SG-1 did have them on, it's only used when the MALP detected toxic gases in the atmosphere but since Atlantis doesn't use MALPS to see danger ahead...

But this was suppose to be a diplomatic mission.

[jelgate]

Well when SG-1 did have them on, it's only used when the MALP detected toxic gases in the atmosphere but since Atlantis doesn't use MALPS to see danger ahead...
But this was suppose to be a diplomatic mission.

Since when?

[Pharaoh Atem]

yea i thought this season woolsey made it a mandate to use malps

[MathiasE]

Since when?

Since they discovered that there are spacegates in Pegasus?

yea i thought this season woolsey made it a mandate to use malps

Hmm must've missed that, what episode did he enforce that?
I know they used it in E2 since they knew it was a landgate and possible wraith activity around it but other than that i cant remember hearing anything about it.

[gopher65]

Since they discovered that there are spacegates in Pegasus?



Hmm must've missed that, what episode did he enforce that?
I know they used it in E2 since they knew it was a landgate and possible wraith activity around it but other than that i cant remember hearing anything about it.

Yup, they used their first MALP in season 1 episode 1, and this season Woolsey made them mandatory in order to keep people from falling into traps and such (of course, in real life this would always have been the policy... but this is TV).

[JackHarkness_Hot]

You know the old saying from bosses, "We're implementing new policies and we're also reinforcing old ones". I would love to see an episode where they don't use a MALP, a team goes through the gate but oh dear, the gate that they connected to has an iris. That would teach the entire Atlantis personnel to use a MALP! That's what they're for.

Since McKay is so smart, surely he can design and create a MALP that navigate in Space, at the very least, survive long enough for it to be collected with a Jumper.

[Lahela]

A MALP wouldn't have helped them here though because it started out as a diplomatic mission

[JackHarkness_Hot]

But would have helped them in past missions and future ones.

[Lahela]

But would have helped them in past missions and future ones.

Yup, agreed. I missed the bit where this went from this ep to "in general"

[JackHarkness_Hot]

LOL, it happens.

[Xaeden]

Yeah, they've been using MALPs since day one. However, they don't use them for planets that they think are safe. What Woolsey was pushing for was to have it so that it didn't matter if the planet was just checked out a few hours ago. If you go back to that planet in a short amount of time or send a secondary party after the primary one, you have to send a MALP ahead first. Even if you just come back to get something (medical supplies for example) you'd have to send a MALP ahead to make sure something didn't happen in that brief amount of time. However, it was never said if this moved from theory to practice. They left us with Woolsey pushing for it and Sheppard shrugging it off as too much of a hassle for the small amount of risk involved.

[james123182]

sg1 had gas masks. in legacy they saw those dead goa'uld and immediately put them on. any time it looked like there might be any sort of toxin or virus they put them on. but as others have said it was a diplomatic mission.