Beaming entire plantes

[helio9]

Umm...no. Big enough for ships, yes. Planets, not even close. Carter said it was 300-400 meters across. At 400m, it's not even a quarter of a mile across.

And I'd just like to add that the 400m supergate was powered by a black hole. So what would it take exactly to transport a planet? lol. You really want to mess with that?

[skritsys]

Why go to the trouble of building a gate that size? There are the Alpha sites too. Plus if they had that much time and technology why not build something equivalent to the Dyson Spheres they had in Star Trek. Granted that is reaching and might be completely out there, but an artificial planet?
Heck even Star Wars utilized the concept when they built the Death Star.

[Mister Oragahn]

I was thinking today.
If Earth was compromised, could they build a giant gate and send the entire planet somewhere else? Of course they would need a giant gate at the other end, it would be really confusing for the attackers too,

Also, a portable 'stargate net' would be a great weapon, just send your attacking foe miles away.

Well, wouldn't it be embarassing if the planet was caught in the giant woosh?

[DarkElfa]

Well, the Asguard could beam a whole building, maybe they could beam a planet. That way you wouldn't need to build a giant gate. you just build a giant buffer for the transporter and then transport the planet through the gate.

[Three PhDs]

Well, the Asguard could beam a whole building, maybe they could beam a planet. That way you wouldn't need to build a giant gate. you just build a giant buffer for the transporter and then transport the planet through the gate.

The buffer would need to be as big as the object it was beaming.

[Lord §okar]

Interesting: we have seen how an Asgard ship can use its transporters as a weapon and yet their entire race is impotent against the replicators. Ok, so maybe they've somehow blocked the effect exploited by the beamers, why do the ships have reactors? Factually any kind of reaction that can be conducted between matter in a vessel will be far less efficient than just dematerializing the same amount and feeding it into your ship.

The two exceptions would be if the transporter uses more energy/kg than would be yielded or if the generators live up the their namesake and somehow capture neutrinos.

[skritsys]

Even if you could transport an entire planet, you would have to insert in the right orbit of a star. too close *sizzle* too far *brrr* put it in the wrong insertion point and you could have major earthquakes and stuff. and not to mention what if the planet has a moon? wouldn't you need the moon to go with it to make sure that the lunar orbit doesn't change?

[DarkElfa]

Well theoretically, a race as advanced as the Asguard could make those kind of precise calculations.

Also I doubt you would need a buffer the size of a planet to beam one. They didn't need a building sized buffer to beam the building, did they?

[skritsys]

They probably compressed it in a zip file.

[DarkElfa]

They probably compressed it in a zip file.

But seriously, it makes sense, doesn't it? They would obviously have to create a massive buffer, but it would be far less expensive and material intensiove than building a giant gate. It seems to me that if the Asguard were going to attemt something of that nature, this would be there route.

[Three PhDs]

Well theoretically, a race as advanced as the Asguard could make those kind of precise calculations.

I could make them calculations with paper, pencil and a calculator. It's all basic basic newtonian laws of motion and a bit of gravitation.

Also I doubt you would need a buffer the size of a planet to beam one. They didn't need a building sized buffer to beam the building, did they?

You would, and I'll let you wonder for a while why you would.

They probably compressed it in a zip file.

Nup, compression wouldn't work either.

[DarkElfa]

Matter doesn't take up the same space when dematerialized.

[Lord §okar]

How much space does it take up?

[Three PhDs]

Matter doesn't take up the same space when dematerialized.

Keep thinking... don't trust what you see on the show and think.

[musicmuggle]

Don't trust what we see on the show? Bummer...and I thought that the Jaffa were real and that Stargates had a telephone number. Does this mean Joe M. should quit his day job now?