The Supergate Discussion Thread #SPOILERS#

[Hawaii_Boy_808]

I did some estimates base on on some screencap I made (look down) and come up with a circumference of 10,500. I can up with this by the super gate pices being 175x390 ft. With 42 pices being on the computer screen and about 75 ft between each gate. So thats (175*42)+(75*42)=10500 ft. So the diamitor of the gate is about 2550 ft (10500/pie-(390*2-gate pices on each side)=2550 ft. So now we can assume that the Ori ships are at close to 1/2 mile wide. But i notice that in the second to the last pic the gate has way more then 42 pices but then again the computer screen shows only 42, so I went from there.

[PG15]

42 eh?

*Insert obvious Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy joke*

[PG15]

Carter said it was a microsingularity, unlike the "normal" singularity we got in "A Matter of Time".

So theortically its effects should be less intense.

[spartan 117]

Because thats what TPTB wanted .

[Auralis]

Oh its effects are exactly the same, just don't stretch out that far.
The danger of a singularity is directly proportional to its mass.
It has the exact same gravitaional pull then the object had it was formed off,
With one litle exception, you can closer to it then you could to the object.
And that is what maks it dangerous. Since at that point graviation increases above what could be normaly generated by the original object, once you pass the distance that marked the surface of the original object till it reaches infinit at the singulairty itself.

[talyn2k1]

It`s also not beyond belief that they just screwed up the scaling again. We know they did it with the Hatak/304/O`Neill-class scaling so why not with the Supergate.

But short of that, I think the ultragate explanation above is the most plausible.

[Peoples_General]

Now how big is a supergate?
On the beachhead episode, carter tells that one section of the gate is about 10 meters long.
That seems about right if you look at this picture, that shows one of the pieces colliding with prometheus


But now on Camelot, Carter is transported to one the sections, to replace the control crystal
Carter is in the circle:

But that looks a whole lot bigger!

So that's a little inconsistent, or am I missing something?

Yes it's VERY inconsistent. I kept telling people this, but the "metrically challenged" keep saying otherwise.

Also... if the BC-304 is about 450meters long, but it about 1/2 the size of a Ha'Tak... and the Ha'Tak looks like fighter compared to the Ori starships.

Then its safe to say that the Ori ships are far larger than a half-mile. Since 1mile = 1.6km. If the Ha'Taks are 2x bigger than the 450m long BC-304 then the Ha'Tak should at least be 900m long. If 900m long Ha'Taks look like fighters compared to the Ori starships.... then they're far larger than any of the ships we've seen in StarGate (excluding the Atlantis type City-Ships).

[freyr's mother]

Put a gigantic Iris on it.

[Tealcfan]

Put a gigantic Iris on it.

good idea but the ori ships might ya know kill us before we get the chance

[Peoples_General]

Won't the giant Kawoosh blow it apart? I mean... how are we gonna build something that friggin big?

[Anubis1989]

the kawoosh doesnt destroy the iris on a normal gate. I wud move the gate infront of a sun and wen the ships come through we will then see how much the ori love fire

[kirmit]

I think there is too much of a size difference for it to simply be a mistake, it is probably sumthin the writers will explain in S10 along with the the difference in the size of the o'neill asgard ship.

[Peoples_General]

the kawoosh doesnt destroy the iris on a normal gate. I wud move the gate infront of a sun and wen the ships come through we will then see how much the ori love fire

Ancient shields can protect against a nuclear blast. The sun is nothing more than nuclear explosion after nuclear explosion.

[Flibble]

the kawoosh doesnt destroy the iris on a normal gate. I wud move the gate infront of a sun and wen the ships come through we will then see how much the ori love fire

.. or propel it into a black hole.

[Imgnryflagdotcom]

we could do all this, but it would make for a bad show. The good guys have to have alot of failures and troubles before they win.