How does Stargate work?

[VSHARMA]

Yeah, the movie didn't do the gate right though I think got what it was saying.

The movie had a lot of things different to the series. For one Abodis is in another galaxy. Two ring transporters had 10 rings instead of 5. The Goa’uld were shown as sprites that take over bodies and not parasites like creatures.

[mizzoueng]

That would require a whole lot of symbols on a gate. Imagine a gate with thousands of glyphs instead of 39.

I can imagine that. The glyphs would be smaller, but the only real reason they are big right now it so you can see it on a tv/movie screen. Imagine hooking a comuter to the DHD's, simple two button presses and you got a connection. Glyphs really dont even need to be on the gate other than the rare occasion that the DHD gets destroyed. But if you have a laptop that can control a stargate, even if for one use then it would be a heck of a lot easier than spinning the gate to lock in 7 symbols.

We built our own DHD, we found the safeties built into a stargate and were able to overwrite them. We also know how a gate works, at least on the show, therefore we should be able to reverse engineer a gate, there may be compenents we dont understand, but we should be able to understand almost 90% of what makes up a stargate.

From this we could make the 2-button stargate, which in essence would eliminate the problems we have with enemies dialing in faster than we can dial out.

Yes, I know it would never happen on the show becasue why bring in a new gate when the one we have now is fine. The whole plot line of enemies trying to use our slow dialing against us would be gone and that would hurt thr longevity of the show. Whatever. IF, and I stress IF, this whole scenario was happening in the real world, the gate would have been replaced with a 2-button ASAP to stop enemies from dialing in.

[planettom]

Those who've read this far in the thread may want to try my Stargate Simulator:

http://tinyurl.com/ykayck

Dial 5 planets and discover the surprise!

[FallenAngelII]

The PoO (and the different PoO for different gates as well as different symbols) was not the creation of the PTB. It was the creation of Roland and Emmerich and whoever else wrote the movie.

[Jedi_Master_Bra'tac]

A normal stargate address consists of 7 symbols, 6 points in space and point of origin, the 6 points mark where the planet is and the point of origin to make a course. The point of origin should be unique to every gate, regardless of how many there are on a planet, but as eagled eyed stargate fans have noticed, most gates have the /\ PoO, TPTB did cock up here. Each planet should have different symbols on the gate aswell (think about it why would every gate every in the universe have star constilations that match the earth's night sky)

[thefather]

we are the first world, it is concievable the gates were plotted and their addresses charted using earth as a reference.

[mikeroq]

Well the Antartic gate, that Carter and O'Neill were sent through, is possibly the oldest gate in the network.

[JoseP927]

Well the Antartic gate, that Carter and O'Neill were sent through, is possibly the oldest gate in the network.

I remember in the movie, after they sent the probe through, they noticed the symbols on the other side were different (implying more than just the POO).

[Seastallion]

Those who've read this far in the thread may want to try my Stargate Simulator:

http://tinyurl.com/ykayck

Dial 5 planets and discover the surprise!

I LOVE that..! That is so freakn' cool..! Well done. Your definitely getting green for all the effort. Nice!

One question though... You have 7 possible spaces to enter. Obviously the 7th place would normally be for the point of origin. What if you wanted to dial an 8 symbol extra-galactic address? I tried it, but it won't let you do that. Oh well...

[Seastallion]

I remember in the movie, after they sent the probe through, they noticed the symbols on the other side were different (implying more than just the POO).

Except that system wouldn't work. The targeting method used in the movie, and in the tv show are different. In the movie, the targeting method was Earth-centric which was fine, for just the movie. However, that same system does NOT work for an entire network of stargates all using the same symbols (minus the PoO symbol) to reach the same places. The targeting method used on the tv show is NOT Earth-centric, but rather pan-galactic. Meaning that all the stargates are using the same frame of reference to be able to work right. If they kept the same method used in the movie, it would be far too complicated to work. Each and every planet would have a different address for every other stargate in existence. You could never use the same symbols or addresses to reach the same place from more than one planet.

[Jedi_Master_Bra'tac]

Those who've read this far in the thread may want to try my Stargate Simulator:

http://tinyurl.com/ykayck

Dial 5 planets and discover the surprise!

Thats cool, I like that the fact if you dial P3X-555 (the planet they were supposed to go to in 1969) it takes you to the furlings homeworld, have some green!

[planettom]

I LOVE that..! That is so freakn' cool..!
One question though... You have 7 possible spaces to enter. Obviously the 7th place would normally be for the point of origin. What if you wanted to dial an 8 symbol extra-galactic address? I tried it, but it won't let you do that. Oh well...

http://tinyurl.com/ykayck

Yeah, I decided that extra-galactic addresses were outside the scope of the simulator.

However, I will mention that, beyond the 5 addresses that it challenges you to enter, there's a bit of an Easter Egg. Dial the planet where Dr. Ernest Littlefield got trapped for 50 years.

I could put some more planets in this, but I'm trying to keep the size of the .SWF file fairly small. Right now it's 78 kilobytes.

There's a much more complex dialer simulator available for download on the web, but it's a 60+ megabyte download or some such. I figured I'd make the teeny-tiny one.

[The Ori]

Let me just ask one of the ancients!