are our hyperdrive weak?

[phikix]

the asgard design maybe fast but not fast enough, are they weak design or is that the power source not good enough?

[walterIsTheMan]

Between galaxies - over 2 million light years - in less than 3 weeks, and this is not fast enough?! Just how fast do you want to go?

[MacGyver`]

Between galaxies - over 2 million light years - in less than 3 weeks, and this is not fast enough?! Just how fast do you want to go?

Agreed. The very thought of that even being possible is unthinkable.

[BlackBaron]

Well, compared to maybe Asgard hyperdrives then yes. But still, it's a huge breakthrough for the tau'ri.

And I agree with the asgard, don't get us the best design just yet. We're not ready for it yet.

[freyr's mother]

Nor are our ships large enough to carry the asgard version.

[Peoples_General]

The Asgard Hyper Drives, at least the ones on the Daedalus are perhaps downgraded version of the that Asgard gave us. It also has something to do with the power source.

When the ZPM was hooked to the Daedalus' engines, it only took them 4 days to reach Atlantis. Without the ZPM it takes them about 18 to 20 days.

[Auralis]

Nah, our ships are fast enough for story telling purposes. It doesn't needs to be faster.
And to allow our gray buddies to help out in an emergency they need faster drives then us, again for story telling purposes.

[RobJones]

Think about it:

10 years ago the fastest space vessels were we had were - to quote bra'tac, "These shuttles they are a formidable craft?"

we had shuttles and rockets that took 3 days to reach our own moon. in 10 years we now have vessels capable of traveling millions of light years in a matter of years. that is amazingly fast to develop such technolgy. not to mension, in terms of speed, we have cought up with, and suppassed (by far) our biggest enemies (the gou'ld). the gould have been using the same hyperdrive for hundreds of years thousands even. in 10 years, weve taken the tech and have beaten theres. thats pretty incredible

[immhotep]

The only reason our hyperdrives are not fast enough is becausewe cant power them sufficently. The asgard have not held back anything, we have exactly the same tech they do except a power source...if we took the ZPM from atlantis and plugged it in to the deadalus the shields and the hyperdrive would match the asgards.
We have the best hyperdrives in the MW and PG's, we dont know that the ori even have hyperdrives because they use the SG's apparently to move their fleets. In this case our hyperdrives, although underpowered are by far the fastest type of hyperdrive that the tauri will ever get. They surpass every other race in speed, technology and design ( the can be both intra and inter galactic, the ancients had to have two for that job!).
dont complain when we have the best out thier.

immhotep

[RobJones]

The only reason our hyperdrives are not fast enough is becausewe cant power them sufficently. The asgard have not held back anything, we have exactly the same tech they do except a power source...if we took the ZPM from atlantis and plugged it in to the deadalus the shields and the hyperdrive would match the asgards.
We have the best hyperdrives in the MW and PG's, we dont know that the ori even have hyperdrives because they use the SG's apparently to move their fleets. In this case our hyperdrives, although underpowered are by far the fastest type of hyperdrive that the tauri will ever get. They surpass every other race in speed, technology and design ( the can be both intra and inter galactic, the ancients had to have two for that job!).
dont complain when we have the best out thier.

immhotep

can we merge our posts, it would be the ultimate !

[immhotep]

Add me on msn, and yes it would be the ultimate!

[BlackBaron]

The only reason our hyperdrives are not fast enough is becausewe cant power them sufficently. The asgard have not held back anything, we have exactly the same tech they do except a power source...if we took the ZPM from atlantis and plugged it in to the deadalus the shields and the hyperdrive would match the asgards.
We have the best hyperdrives in the MW and PG's, we dont know that the ori even have hyperdrives because they use the SG's apparently to move their fleets. In this case our hyperdrives, although underpowered are by far the fastest type of hyperdrive that the tauri will ever get. They surpass every other race in speed, technology and design ( the can be both intra and inter galactic, the ancients had to have two for that job!).
dont complain when we have the best out thier.

immhotep

That's not true. We do not have as good hyperdrive as the Asgard. Powered by a ZPM it still took a "long" time for us to get to the pegasus Galaxy compared to a Asgard mothership which travel between galaxies in no time.

[BlackBaron]

Nor are our ships large enough to carry the asgard version.

If that where true, then how can the Daniel Jackson class Asgard mothership which is smaller then Ha'taks is able to carry Asgard hyperdrives. Just as fast as any other?

[Auralis]

...if we took the ZPM from atlantis and plugged it in to the deadalus the shields and the hyperdrive would match the asgards.

immhotep

Actually the Deady with a installed ZPM needs 4 days to get from earth to Atlantis.
A Asgard ship needs 8 minutes from Ida to earth, which is about the same distance. Thats 1440 times faster.

So it stands to reason, either the asgard gave us a older hyperdrive design, which imo is pretty likely, or
the asgard have a powersource much more powerfull then a ZPM, which i think is pretty unlikely.
Or one needs other advanced tech as well to make a ship go that fast which we don't have.

I personaly would say its a mix of option 1 and 3.

[immhotep]

Well if you look at the distance's then it works out fine, the PG may be farthur than ida for one thing. The ZPM may not be as good as asgard power sources and the DJ is the size of the deadalus and goes about the same speed, mostl ikely because it has 1 ion nuetrino generator instead of the usual 4.
Power is what drive the hyperdrives speed not the engine, there is one standard asgard inter galactic hyperdrive, and the power osource that powers the drives is what causes the difference of output speed.
The DJ and the deadalus have the same speeds because they have the same level of power source, ZPM = 1 neutrino ion generator = 1/4 of the speed of the full on asgard warships.