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Originally posted by MioNo. Nothing can reform when the shield is up. Not even the vortex. When the Atlantis Iris is active, the Kawoosh can't form. All you see when something impacts it is a bright flash of light, which is the shield flaring up, as all shields do when you poke them.
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Originally posted by Major FischerThat makes sense. I had this mental image of bloody goo that slid to the floor in a bloody mess when the shield was disenaged. Picturing Weir going, "Maintance to the gate room for a wet spill..."sigpic
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Originally posted by MioNo. Nothing can reform when the shield is up. Not even the vortex. When the Atlantis Iris is active, the Kawoosh can't form. All you see when something impacts it is a bright flash of light, which is the shield flaring up, as all shields do when you poke them.
I just don't see any reason why the iris isn't vaporized every time the whoosh happens while it's closed."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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You're missing my point.
They've specifically said that the unstable wormhole 'whoosh' disintegrates any matter that's unfortunate enough to be in the way at the time. The iris is matter. The Atlantis barrier is energy (ie, non-matter)."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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And therein lies the problem. Why not? There's a few microns of space between the iris and the event horizon, so there's ample space for the process to happen."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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Presumably, reactions at the subatomic and/or extradimensional levels require little to no space to occur"A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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Originally posted by DigiFluidPresumably, reactions at the subatomic and/or extradimensional levels require little to no space to occur
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Originally posted by DigiFluidAnd therein lies the problem. Why not? There's a few microns of space between the iris and the event horizon, so there's ample space for the process to happen.
HAMMOND: Wormhole physics, a field, Major, that you pioneered, states that under these conditions, ordinary matter won’t even reintegrate on the other side. There’s no way to overcome that.
CARTER: I think there is, Sir. And I’m not the one who thought of it. SOKAR did.
HAMMOND: SOKAR?
CARTER: Yes, Sir. When he tried to breach the iris by bombarding it with a particle beam. Sub-atomic particles barely small enough to reintegrate produced energy as they decayed.
HAMMOND: Which caused the iris to heat up.
CARTER: Exactly. Now, if we could do the same thing we could melt the hardened naquada barrier just above the event horizon and create a pocket of superheated gas.
HAMMOND: And then what?
CARTER: Well, then all we have to do is open the Gate again, Sir. The unstable vortex it normally generates would then be allowed to expand into that pocket and create an even larger cavern. One person might be able to go through, Sir, and dig it out.
Note the last line. You need a big enough gap for an unstable vortex to form.sigpic
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Originally posted by Major FischerAwh, there goes thoughts about icky special effects.
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