All you ever wanted to know about the 9th chevron

[alz0rz]

I mean...

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It would have been interesting to see how they dialed Earth in "Letters from Pegasus" - but they ended it so abruptly.. :/

[alz0rz]

What it might do is that it allows a wormhole to activate to a planet with no Stargate. The ancients might of used this to open a wormhole to a planet with no stargate and take the materials with them to build a Stargate.

Gatedialer

If there isnt a Stargate there - there is nothing to rematerialize you.. You'll just .. cease to exist

[Mio]

I mean...

Spoiler:

It would have been interesting to see how they dialed Earth in "Letters from Pegasus" - but they ended it so abruptly.. :/

Spoiler:

McKay explained it pretty clearly. They just crammed all their power into the gate, and dialed.

If there isnt a Stargate there - there is nothing to rematerialize you.. You'll just .. cease to exist

Exactly. While the wormhole can transmit your basic matter, without a stargate event horizon to put you back into your original form, you'd be turned into dust.

[alz0rz]

Spoiler:

McKay explained it pretty clearly. They just crammed all their power into the gate, and dialed.

Spoiler:

Mio, I understood the part about getting all the power - but I mean when they actually DIALED Earth.

Did they just punch in the 8 symbols and thats it? No special procedures or anything ? I mean there is a entire crystal there JUST to lock a 8 chevron address so there definately had to be another step or something

[Schrodinger's Cat]

Sorry to keep being contrary... but I don't think it was doing either of those things. I beleive it was just passing through Atlantis's shield.

-IMF

That makes sense. It was night in that shot, and the hyperspace exit could have been like F-302 Hyperburst and used to pass through the sheild. (We're agreeing, right?)

[IMForeman]

That makes sense. It was night in that shot, and the hyperspace exit could have been like F-302 Hyperburst and used to pass through the sheild. (We're agreeing, right?)

I'm not agreeing that it was a hyperspace exit at all... the Jumpers don't seem to have Hyperdrives at all. Jarnin and myself independantly calculated the speed of a jumper to be .02c or 2% of light speed.

-IMF

[Mio]

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Mio, I understood the part about getting all the power - but I mean when they actually DIALED Earth.

Did they just punch in the 8 symbols and thats it? No special procedures or anything ? I mean there is a entire crystal there JUST to lock a 8 chevron address so there definately had to be another step or something

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They probably just picked 'Earth' in the Ancient Dialing Device Database, and got a lock

It probably does what our computer did in 'The Fifth Race'.

The slot for the 8th chevron just....appears....when you need it.

[alz0rz]

Spoiler:

They probably just picked 'Earth' in the Ancient Dialing Device Database, and got a lock

It probably does what our computer did in 'The Fifth Race'.

The slot for the 8th chevron just....appears....when you need it.

Yeah about what happened in "The Fifth Race" - so a 8th block just appeared on our screens? Or was it pre-programmed and just needed to be enabled? Or did Jack program it in when he started typing

[Mio]

That makes sense. It was night in that shot, and the hyperspace exit could have been like F-302 Hyperburst and used to pass through the sheild. (We're agreeing, right?)

It kind of just passes through the shield. Think 'Kull Warrior'.

Either:

A) The shield was set to a mode that allowed passage through it like in the Goa'uld docking bay in Descent

B) Puddle Jumpers can pass through the Atlantis Shield. It makes sense.



I just watched it to be sure. The sound and blue distortion that appear are definetly what you'd expect from something passing through a shield. It was NOT hyperspace.

[IMForeman]

I just looked at a bunch of Chevron images... I appear to have been wrong... big shock there...

-IMF

[Mio]

Sorry It's so crummy. it's difficult to compress it into such a small file. But it's clear (at least on the original version) that the Jumper went through directly through the shield.

[alz0rz]

Sorry It's so crummy. it's difficult to compress it into such a small file. But it's clear (at least on the original version) that the Jumper went through directly through the shield.

Corrupt file!

[IMForeman]

Sorry It's so crummy. it's difficult to compress it into such a small file. But it's clear (at least on the original version) that the Jumper went through directly through the shield.

Oh, I'm with ya on that one. I was wrong about the top Chevron being shaped differently though. I'm not certain where the memory of a differently shaped top chevron comes from.

-IMF

[_Owen_]

Oh, I'm with ya on that one. I was wrong about the top Chevron being shaped differently though. I'm not certain where the memory of a differently shaped top chevron comes from.

-IMF

if you watched stargate on a widescreen tv then it would apear elongated

[IMForeman]

if you watched stargate on a widescreen tv then it would apear elongated

Oh, if only that were my problem. I'd love to have me a Widescreen TV... besides... all the DVD's are Widescreen.

-IMF