The Stargate?

[Dark Ghost]

How is the Stargate not covered up by sand? I mean if the sand is constantly blowing around and changing shouldn't it have covered the gate since it has been there for a few hundred years, if not thousands?

[StarFighter]

Well I think you can just chalk that up to them needing to get through the gate. However, if you need a reason maybe it is because that gate was planted just recently. They are following the path of the seeder ships so maybe the gate was placed there not long ago.

[randomking]

you know i thought about this same thing with the past few show's.....but the ancients thought about it first lol...

[koroush47]

Ancients aren't idiots... They probably came up with something.

[Cecil Brax]

Well,

Like a lot of planets the conditions aren't always the greatest but I imagine that some planets are better off then others. This one just happened to be better off. There have been other planets with harsh conditions as well, and some planets where stuff was covered up by natural events like flood or what not. This one just happened not to be.

Maybe it does get covered by sand sometimes, and then uncovered other times. Maybe it was flat enough that it doesn't really happen in that location. The gate did look like it had a fair amount of sand on it, so it probably does get covered from time to time. In this case, it wasn't covered cause that wasn't part of the plot.

Maybe that's why some of the other four addresses were locked out. The gates were no longer accessible. Who knows. The Destiny seems pretty capable of determining though which Stargates are in good enough condition to explore, so it probably determined that before it stopped there.

- CB

[Pharaoh Atem]

How is the Stargate not covered up by sand? I mean if the sand is constantly blowing around and changing shouldn't it have covered the gate since it has been there for a few hundred years, if not thousands?

http://www.gateworld.net/omnipedia/t...eupdates.shtml

you have to remember the gates in sgu spin so when the gate system does automatic correlative update maybe the sand is blown off

[koroush47]

Maybe many stargates were covered up.. So the destiny kept on going until it got to one that wasn't.

I still think the ancients have ways to making sure that doesn't happen.

[Descended]

Did anyone else notice that the event horizon was more "silver" like mercury and less "blue" than it has been in previous series.

[Kidwizz]

Did anyone else notice that the event horizon was more "silver" like mercury and less "blue" than it has been in previous series.

Yeah, i did, but i think thats just better effects. it more closely matches the original SG movie.

[rlr149]

the gate itself has a small electrostatic field that prevents sand resting against its surface, possibly only a by-product of superconducting ring usage rather than an intentional design.

a bit like the sg1 ep with the yellow lights repulsed by the activation of the gate.

[metabog]

I'm pretty sure a Godly race wouldn't have a problem making a device to keep sand off of something. Beats me why they'd need a primitive, exhaustible CO2 scrubber, but whatever.

[Zeratul]

I'm pretty sure a Godly race wouldn't have a problem making a device to keep sand off of something. Beats me why they'd need a primitive, exhaustible CO2 scrubber, but whatever.

The Ancients weren't "Godly" (and by that you mean ascended??) at the time they launched the destiny, to the best of my knowledge _Everything_ they created was before that as they had that strict "no interfering with the lower planes" rule.

Did anyone else notice that the event horizon was more "silver" like mercury and less "blue" than it has been in previous series.

That we did, check this topic.

[lunarleviathan]

It may have been buried in the past but just happened not to be at the time the Destiny arrives in the galaxy. The climates and geography of a planet can change radically if given enough time, not to mention a variety of natural events that could occur, possibly allowing for gates to be buried, uncovered, buried again, and so on.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the future we'll see gates on SGU in a variety of inaccessible places due to changing conditions on planets. They've done that with SG-1 before, so probably will again since it just makes sense.

[thekillman]

it was the immense amount of white and the immensely dark Destiny gateroom that makes it look silver

[kymeric]

The wormhole wouldnt have locked if the stargate had been buried. There could have been any number of better planets nearby whos gates were inaccesible.