What did the ancients do all day?

[Gaterholic]

After all we've learned about the ancinets in the last year, i've been wondering, what did they do all day?

It seems they evolved a society past the need for commerse, trade, and earning a living. They thought very long term, over millions of years.
Were they ALL researchers and scientists?
We know they had a governing counsel, but before the war started, what did they have to govern?

I mean after Mr ancient woke up, had a bagel and coffee, checked the paper to see how the humans he planted on some planet were doing, what was next?

Video games?
Playing tag through the stargate?
Puddle Jumper X-games?
Hit on Ancientette?

Any theories? Real or comical are accepted!

[Wass]

They watched Simpson’s and played football.

[MarshAngel]

Well building new cities and maintaining million year old cities took up a lot of time I'm sure. Making sure that natural disasters don't completely wreck their human seeds, making maps of each planet, updating old systems, meditating, playing psychic tag, investigating new planes of existence, other dimensions, studying non-corporeal life forms.
I'm sure there was a chef, a clothes maker and a barber among them as well. I doubt they just made everything they needed out of thin air. And when they weren't working, they gated to a planet and hung out on the beach.

[Gaterholic]

That would be a funny story line. We finally meet a unascended ancient that isnt bound by any rules to not help us and..."I'm sorry, i was the barber. I only know super advanced hair cutting tech."

But as for the other, Building new citys and life does take time, but over the MILLIONS of years, that leaves a lot of free time during the day to play stargate tag.

[Ancient 1]

Not sure about the Ancients, but those that ascended do nothing but watch "the wheels on the bus go round and round!"...or is that planets in the galaxies?

[Freyrs]

When they weren't trying to reach enlightenment they probally did a bit of sight seeing around the universe and building bigger and better ships to crush their non-existant enemeis. Now if you ask me being ascended would be a lot more boring... you don't get to do anything but watch! What a dull infinite existance.

[Gaterholic]

The ascended get to prevent people from meddling all day. and find their enlightenment.

And eat pancakes.

[knocknashee]

When they weren't trying to reach enlightenment they probally did a bit of sight seeing around the universe and building bigger and better ships to crush their non-existant enemeis. Now if you ask me being ascended would be a lot more boring... you don't get to do anything but watch! What a dull infinite existance.

Imagine WHAT you could watch though...

*PG Forum, PG Forum, PG Forum*

[Freyrs]

Imagine WHAT you could watch though...

*PG Forum, PG Forum, PG Forum*

Get your head out of that gutter.

I don't think thats what enlightenment is about.

[Kiech Bepho]

Watching porn all day long would get boring eventually. They weren't all teenage boys when they acended you know.

As for what they did before they ascended...who knows. I'm guessing that Atlantis was just a science station though. We haven't seen any evidence of a marketplace - or really any large gathering place for that matter cept the gate room.

[Gaterholic]

somewhere out there, there is an ascended ancient that is a boston red sox fan. and he just watched untill this year. when he took action.

Its the only way they could have won.

anyway, back to what the Lantean ancients did all day! not those peeping tom ascendeds

[Urgo7]

they had outgroan the need to entertain themselfs

[sq40]

Drugs.. Lots of Drugs.. Why else would the Wraith be allowed to expand so fast?

[Seshat]

Well, apparently they all enjoy hanging out in places that serve a dang fine cup of coffee.
So, I image they frequent Starbucks.

Haven't you ever wondered why there was one on every corner?

[Gaterholic]

It could have only been due to alien meddling that the franchise grew so quickly, i KNEW IT!

So the Lanteans liked their coffee. after a good cup everymorning, the took the dog for a space walk, then settled in to watch the stargate ring toss