Zat gun disintegration question...

[Colonel Sharp]

How big an object can a zat gun disintegrate? Just wondering, because I don't remember them saying...

[TheChronoTrigger]

I don't think it's ever been explained. I also get the impression that it's something the writers would like us all to forget.

[Qasim]

Yes - Zats no longer disintegrate stuff seems the writers changed their minds

[Colonel Sharp]

Yes - Zats no longer disintegrate stuff seems the writers changed their minds

Lol, thought so, they kinda stopped using it after Window of Oppertunity.

[mrtwidlywinks]

Maybe the Goauld un-upgraded the zats.

[Heru'urs_first_prime]

well the biggest thing Ive seen that was desintegrated was in that 1969 episode where Jack desintigrates that big box full of SGC stuff

[_Owen_]

Well, seeing as the Zat use the pulsing energy which will expand away from a source and disapate, and the pulsing energy seems to disapate after a meter to two meters, possibly three, I would say nothing larger than that. We know that Zats disintegrate in discrete units of matter, so it won't disintegrate a whole in the floor, so say you shot it at a Ha'tak three times, I would expect the energy to pulse and disapate, and have no effect on the ship whatsoever, except possibly damaging electrical or computer equipment.

I would have to say anywhere from one to two cubic meters of matter, two is on the high side, that may even be doubtful.

Owen Macri

[Heru'urs_first_prime]

Ive read in the stargate offisial magazine/DVD collection thing that the Zat weapon increases the heat of matter dramaticly, so after 3 shots, the matter is so hot it desintigrates!

I need to read up on it again!

[_Owen_]

Right, if the matter was to heat up that far chances are in an oxygen rich environment, that it would catch on fire, and with incredible heat you would think the recipients of the blast would have scarring and burns on them, as well you would think they would react to it like heat not like a shock to the nervous system. It seems to inflict great pain but not through heat.

Also if the matter where to heat up until it desintegrated it would have to catch on fire, burn and you would end up with a pile of ash, not nothing like you really end up with.

Unless the matter were to be converted directly to a gas, through the process of sublimation. In this process the boiling point of the matter needs to be below the melting point. However this is not the case with humans, or other matter like a box. The process of sublimation is displayed and can be observed in dry ice. As well, if the matter were to sublimate it would still apear diffrently than we see it with the Zat. Not to mention the fact it is physically impossible unless the properties of the matter were changed therfore altering the matter itself.

Owen Macri

[Heru'urs_first_prime]

I'll re-read the magazine tonight!

[_Owen_]

I'll re-read the magazine tonight!

Ok. You are lucky, I want the Stargate Magazines.

Owen Macri

[Heru'urs_first_prime]

Ok. You are lucky, I want the Stargate Magazines.

Owen Macri

wow, where do you live?

going back to the subject: couldn't you like destroy a building with a loooooads of zap guns? like, java surrounding a building and just firing at it?

if thats so......couldn't you desintigrate the iris? because 'lightning' isn't matter............hard matter

[Qasim]

The omnipedia still says 3 shots will disintegrate

ZAT'NI'KATEL
A handheld Goa'uld weapon, formed in the shape of a coiled serpent. The zat'ni'katel was nicknamed "zat gun" by Colonel O'Neill. The zat uses a different form of energy, less powerful than that of a staff weapon. One shot will usually render a victim unconscious. Two shots will kill most subjects. Three shots disintegrate them.

[Heru'urs_first_prime]

The omnipedia still says 3 shots will disintegrate

but only for people, it doesn't mention ......... matter (non-organic)

[Colonel Sharp]

wow, where do you live?

going back to the subject: couldn't you like destroy a building with a loooooads of zap guns? like, java surrounding a building and just firing at it?

if thats so......couldn't you desintigrate the iris? because 'lightning' isn't matter............hard matter

If you can see it, it probably cant get through the iris.

and also (to take advantage of your typo, hehehe) I don't think cups of Coffee with zat guns are going to do much...