Why not use the Daedalus/Odyssey to explore other planets?

[Vala_M]

Inside our OWN solar system? We all know how badly NASA wants to get a man on Mars, well, the Daedalus or the Odyssey could accomplish that. Why not get a NASA team sign on to part of the SGC and then they could explore every planet in the solar system in detail? No more billions of dollars wasted on probes that get lost or anything.

AGT58

[jds1982]

Inside our OWN solar system? We all know how badly NASA wants to get a man on Mars, well, the Daedalus or the Odyssey could accomplish that. Why not get a NASA team sign on to part of the SGC and then they could explore every planet in the solar system in detail? No more billions of dollars wasted on probes that get lost or anything.

AGT58

I think they're a little busy at the moment, you know fighting wars and such.

[Vala_M]

What about with the Prometheus then? Most of the time, it seemed to just sit in the hangar in Area 51.

AGT58

[J_B]

Seeing that they can use the ships for intergalactic travel & all that. I'm fairly sure that the SGC have done a lot of exploring throughout the galaxy, not only in the 303's/304's but also through the Stargate.

Mars is only to see about water, if alien life exists or ever existed on it etc. The SGC knows that alien life exists. So there is no need for them to do anything with nasa.

If the 304's were introduced, then that blows part of the SG program wide open.

Hence, they explore through the gate every week. So no need to use ships to go to Mars. It would be a waste of an ep, unless they write in a bunch of underground living martian trolls who attack the ship & eat the crew.

[supersoldier34]

What about with the Prometheus then? Most of the time, it seemed to just sit in the hangar in Area 51.

AGT58

Um the Prometheus
spoiler for S9 Ethon

Spoiler:

blew up

[Buba uognarf]

Um the Prometheus
spoiler for S9 Ethon

Spoiler:

blew up

he was refering to before it blew up...why didn't it scout the solar system...

the question is how do you know it didn't? and even so whats the point our solar system is very interesting galaxy wise why bother send it somewhere no ones ever been...

[Vala_M]

Yes, I was referring to back when the Prometheus was still in service.

But why solve the mysteries of the universe before we solve the mysteries of our own little corner of it?

AGT58

[.jolinar.]

Well I must admit while a ship is in orbit doing repairs they could beam a NASA team onto the moon or somthing. But they shouldnt go out of their way to explore empty planets when they have a planet to defend. Or try to defend.

[Ltcolshepjumper]

Inside our OWN solar system? We all know how badly NASA wants to get a man on Mars, well, the Daedalus or the Odyssey could accomplish that. Why not get a NASA team sign on to part of the SGC and then they could explore every planet in the solar system in detail? No more billions of dollars wasted on probes that get lost or anything.

AGT58

Who cares about our solar system? It's the other parts of the galaxy, the inhabited ones, that are interesting. Our solar system's pretty much empty.

[wise one]

thats becuse the planets in our solar system are all dead with no life. no point in studying them.

it would be quite intriging though if they did and found like ancient technology underground or something, like there some sort of theory that mars had life on it once

[Col. Shadow Quinn]

For all we know there might be a planet on the opposite side of the sun that's just like Earth(We don't know because that's never been explored).

[Jimbo-DR]

How could there be another planet on the other side of the sun that we don't know about? It would have to have EXACTLY the same orbit as Earth for us to never detect it, and we have sent probes far out into the solar system that likely would have seen it, haven't we?

[FallenAngelII]

What would be point of exploring our own solar system when we know there are tons of planets that can (and is) sustain life out there? A man on Mars? Wow! How great that is in comparison to travelling halfway across the galaxy.

And if they used a BC-304/DSC-30X to put someone on Mars, it'd either have to be a covert operation or it'd blow the Stargate program wide open.

[Vala_M]

You people are missing my point! I'm not saying they should devote an episode to this, I think they should AT LEAST have Carter saying "Well, General, we're done exploring our own solar system thanks to the Odyssey" or something like that, just have a character say it and that is it. I'm not asking them to devote episodes to it.

AGT58

[Detox]

But the question is... why?

There are so many more interesting planets out there. We can pretty much assume that any world that doesn't have a Stargate on it is, probably doesn't have anything interesting there.