Is "Burying" the gate really necessary?

[Steelbox]

I think it might actually even depend on the density of the stuff blocking the gate as well. Remember, the gate on one world was knocked over, facing down. Death Knell, I believe. The kawoosh made a hole in the mud, and O'Neill and Teal'c had room to fall in.

It was only knocked over not completely blocked.

[thekillman]

if there is room, the kawoosh forms

[sunrek]

This might matter:

The SGC's Stargate has a metal walkway through it. It doesn't have a gap for the Event Horizon and it is never destroyed. Somehow, the "puddle" forms through the ramp and does not harm it. So Stargates can do that.

Plus, there's the platforms the Gates are usually embedded in off world. No gap for the Event Horizon there. Same with the floor in Atlantis.

Maybe you have to cover more than a third of the area of the Gate?

[Steelbox]

This might matter:

The SGC's Stargate has a metal walkway through it. It doesn't have a gap for the Event Horizon and it is never destroyed. Somehow, the "puddle" forms through the ramp and does not harm it. So Stargates can do that.

Plus, there's the platforms the Gates are usually embedded in off world. No gap for the Event Horizon there. Same with the floor in Atlantis.

Maybe you have to cover more than a third of the area of the Gate?

The kawoosh forms only in the center of the Stargate. The access ramp in the SGC is not touched by the unstable vortex and thus is not disintegrated, neither do the ramps on other worlds.

[sunrek]

I know that, but the floor of the ramp is a solid surface that the event horizon cuts through without impedance or damage. There is no gap.

[thekillman]

the entire EH forming ring has to be covered. not the location of the EH itself.


like taking a stargate, and putting cement in the inner ring, against the stargate. so you can walk through, but no EH forms

[jds1982]

This might matter:

The SGC's Stargate has a metal walkway through it. It doesn't have a gap for the Event Horizon and it is never destroyed. Somehow, the "puddle" forms through the ramp and does not harm it. So Stargates can do that.

Plus, there's the platforms the Gates are usually embedded in off world. No gap for the Event Horizon there. Same with the floor in Atlantis.

Maybe you have to cover more than a third of the area of the Gate?

Actually I've heard that there is a gap for the EH, it's just very small.

[Guest750]

Actually, iy's large enough to be visual, you just have to look.

[Aer'ki]

The question is, if a metal pipe is sticking through the center of the gate, will the event horizon form and the kawoosh vaporize the pipe on the outgoing side...or will the presence of the pipe not allow a connection to happen?

My bet is that anything obstructing the inner passage will cause the gate not to activate.(thicker than the air, anyway)

Now, about the ground covering it a few inches...production flaw. What if one gate is lower in the ground than another. Do you trip on the 'rim' coming out, or drop down a few inches when you exit?

I don't think that one was ever thought all the way through.

Then again, maybe that's the reason puddle jumpers have a flat underside.

[sunrek]

I'd have to look, but maybe the Kawoosh extends down far enough to carve out a uniform "floor" for any gate that may have sunk a little?

[Giantevilhead]

You'd think that the Ancients would be advanced enough to invent an "off" switch for gates.

[BoundNoMore]

You'd think that the Ancients would be advanced enough to invent an "off" switch for gates.

Well, the Ancients wouldn't have needed one, since there were only friendlies using the Gates when they were around.

But I do agree that there should be an off switch. They seem to have them in all their other device (not counting the face huggers).

[SGD2C]

well we have seen that the gate has turned on under water and that doesnt count as burying the gate. so maybe it needs to be denser because the specific gravity of water is one because 1/1=1. so soil has a higher specific gravity thus burying the gate.

[Replicator Todd]

It only seems necessary to bury the gate if their is no other way to prevent a event horizon form forming.