Atlantis+Wormhole Drive+Destiny's solarpower = Reaching Destiny

[AVFan]

Enemy at the Gate is best forgotten and assumed to have never really happened.

This^. Read s09's version for a MUCH much better episode to how it played out.

Anyway, if we DO take the wormhole drive as canon for whatever reason, then even for this plan to work, Atlantis would need a complete overhaul. You would have to install giant hydrogen collectors on it, as well as tanks to store the hydrogen in, as well as a fusion generator for the hydrogen to fuse in, as well as a way to tie that brand new fusion generator into the pre-existing wormhole drive.

That may be a bit of a tough job for anyone to do, even if you had the complete schematics for Destiny's solar power system (which we don't). You almost might as well build a brand new craft.

[thekillman]

the idea was the wormholedrive to be used, not specifically atlantis. we don't know WHAT and IF it scoops up stuff, since all power after the star is apparently just stored.

[SaberBlade]

Enemy at the Gate is best forgotten and assumed to have never really happened.

This is the best thing to do.

The wormhole drive is the biggest load of crap I've seen in a show for a long time. It wouldn't have been so bad if they had at least made references to the drive during the shows existence but no, it's like pulling a rabbit of their ass and of course Rodney had already gotten a lot of the calculations already done.

[kwlafayette]

The only reason you give up old technology, is because something better comes along. ZPMs obviously win on space requirements. They probably also win on the sheer amount of energy stored. I believe there are potentially millions of years worth of energy in a ZPM, depending on what you are doing.

The problem with the wormhole drive, is that jumping to some place, you have no way of knowing for sure what is in that space you are about to occupy. So, this would make shorter jumps safer, longer ones more dangerous. To jump between galaxies, where the light from your destination is thousands of years old, that is a big risk factor. Jumping just outside of a galaxy, into a void, would be your best bet, but still not entirely free of risk. To implement this strategy, you would want to make several jumps; jump just outside the next galaxy, hyperdrive in, fly into a star (using that Destiny tech) and do your next jump from there using the power of the star. I estimated in another thread that this kind of jumping would take nearly 300 years one way. Still, that is orders of magnitude faster than the 5 million it took Destiny traveling at FTL.

It actually makes more sense just to wait. In 600 years (round trip time), you will probably come up with even better technology.

[KlaxxonBlue]

Stargate + Black-hole = Everyone comes home. Stargate + Black-hole = Destiny Receives backup/Resupply. Midway-Like station built orbiting a black-hole for long distance Stargate hops = No Brainer.

Why does no one remember these things?

Klaxxonblue

[Pharaoh Atem]

easy way out

[escyos]

Stargate + Black-hole = Everyone comes home. Stargate + Black-hole = Destiny Receives backup/Resupply. Midway-Like station built orbiting a black-hole for long distance Stargate hops = No Brainer.

Why does no one remember these things?

Klaxxonblue

i think we can assume that they have no clue how to do this otherwise why look for an icarus planet at all.

anyway, they wouldnt risk Atlantis for 80 people regardless, the IOA wouldnt allow them seeing as destiny has a stargate and there may be a power source/way to get home that they dont know about.

[General Jumper One]

if they did, they could show the smurfs the meaning of the word Ancient Drones . the next time they find an Icarus planet, the first thing to go through should be a Puddle Jumper

[thekillman]

well i think this is a case of Theory=/= Practice. in real life, if a theory is 30% compatible with practice, you're very lucky. MANY things never turn out the way planned. even after building 3000 ships or aircraft or phones or whatever, there's always gonna be some problem somewhere that has to be solved. even though theoretically the error or problem shouldn't have occurred

[Aesjos]

Stargate + Black-hole = Everyone comes home. Stargate + Black-hole = Destiny Receives backup/Resupply. Midway-Like station built orbiting a black-hole for long distance Stargate hops = No Brainer.

Why does no one remember these things?

Klaxxonblue

Well, they've already got a intergalatic gate (one of the Ori things) running off a blackhole and they've already demonstrated it's possible to have the wormhole going to a regular size gate... The only problem is the energy for a wormhole comes from the starting gate, so the gate on destiny really needs a power boost. But there should be no problem dialing them from ourside and having radio communication... or just beaming them through the stargate (another thing that Ancient tech has done with people before).

[escyos]

if they did, they could show the smurfs the meaning of the word Ancient Drones . the next time they find an Icarus planet, the first thing to go through should be a Puddle Jumper

how would you get the jumper out of the gateroom? it'd be stuck there.

[General Jumper One]

the back door behind the gate , or since the hull is so thin they could fly threw it and into space

[escyos]

the back door behind the gate , or since the hull is so thin they could fly threw it and into space

doors to small, i dont know why people think that wall can be opened, there s hallway behind there and even if you did you go through the gate from the back .....i spose you could just go straight up and smash through the hull......

[Phenom]

So they use Atlantis to wormhole drive to Destiny. Then what? Replace the crew with other people who will then be stranded? Tow Destiny back to Earth?

[escyos]

disable the FTL drive and attached destiny to Atlantis, use the wormhole drive and .....get vapourised.....