Puddle Jumpers?

[_Famrir_]

the puddle jumpers were created after the destiny was on its voyage

[Replicator Todd]

It would be a little odd to have space ships inside of a space ship.....

[Edi]

Not if they are small vehicles meant for things like... carrying heavy stuff or moving around the gate a lot faster than on legs.
A hover board? A bike? A... thing to carry them or other things around quickly.
They must have some kind of machinery.
Yeah, they might just fly the ship to wherever they want, but a Stargate is a lot faster and, I believe, more efficient than bringing a huge ship for few tonne pick up or whatever...

[kymeric]

/they have a stargate in the hold, why would the have more than a couple of ships? Or maybe there bwere more but they were destroyed by wutever shot up the ship?

[2ndgenerationalteran]

I'd say that Puddle Jumpers are a little after Destiny's creation date!

That would be incorrect, Destiny is a little under a million years old, Atlantis left Earth several million years ago. In the Rising in Atlantis a Puddle jumper was shown flying around right before Atlantis left Earth. Therefore the Puddle jumper predates the Destiny. There should be no reason the Destiny wouldnt have puddle jumpers.

[Ekras]

Two shuttles on the exposed hull of a honking great spaceship and thats it?

C'mon Ancients, I know you weren't gonna get on board the loveboat for a while, but only two ships, thats dropping the ball a little, isn't it?

If you look at the ship there are more than 2 docks.... the other shuttles were prolly lost at some point.

[lordofseas]

That would be incorrect, Destiny is a little under a million years old, Atlantis left Earth several million years ago. In the Rising in Atlantis a Puddle jumper was shown flying around right before Atlantis left Earth. Therefore the Puddle jumper predates the Destiny. There should be no reason the Destiny wouldnt have puddle jumpers.

TPTB screwed the timeline.

[Major Tyler]

That would be incorrect, Destiny is a little under a million years old, Atlantis left Earth several million years ago. In the Rising in Atlantis a Puddle jumper was shown flying around right before Atlantis left Earth. Therefore the Puddle jumper predates the Destiny. There should be no reason the Destiny wouldnt have puddle jumpers.

Actually, you are incorrect. Rush clearly said that the Destiny predates the ATA gene interface technology, and since you need the Ancient gene to fly the Puddle Jumpers, they cannot be older than the Destiny.

[dahok]

The Destiny's stargate doesn't seem to have as much range as other stargates seen, but the FTL drive is very quick. Maybe they decided it wasn't worth designing a ship to travel via stargate when flying a ship via the FTL drive was almost as quick.

I don't understand that myself. If it has a range restriction, then no power source they find can send them safely back to Earth.

Destiny followed a seeder ship all over the place, through MW and Pegasus, but still uses that very old design on board?

[Col.Foley]

You know probably why the Ancients did not send ships that could fit through the Gate as far as the Destiny is concerned, especially with the revelation of the Kinos, is that they were not neccessarily going to do that much exploring outside the ship, obviously they provided back ups just in case, with the suits and such, but they probably just intended to send the Kinos to most planets, take readings, and go back to the Destiny.

[YutheGreat]

But then again - how hard it would be to make a small vessel to fit through the gate? And how hard it would be to think of such device? They already have the Kino's tech...

Exactly I get that Destiny predates PJs but what about "puddle jumper-like-ships" especially with the 12 hour timers on the gate. Besides 2 ships with max occupancy of 17 people on a ship as large as destiny? Can anyone say Titanic?

[koroush47]

Exactly I get that Destiny predates PJs but what about "puddle jumper-like-ships" especially with the 12 hour timers on the gate. Besides 2 ships with max occupancy of 17 people on a ship as large as destiny? Can anyone say Titanic?

They probably have more...

Don't forget half the ship is closed off because of air leaks or something like that.

[YutheGreat]

Atlantis was designed so that Puddle Jumpers had access to the gate room. How would a small vessel get from a bay to the gate room on the Destiny? Why would the Ancients have needed shuttles which could fly through stargates anyway when the intended crew was travelling round the galaxy in the Destiny?

The Destiny Gate room is pretty large. it easily accommodated everyone plus whatever supply they had on them.

why do you need a ship that can go through the gate?
1. They can double as escape pods and fighter escort for the crew in case the Destiny is another attack.
2. Survey ships that can Fly into the gate traverse distances study the effects of the terraforming on the entire planet.

Isn't FTL pretty slow compared to hyperdrive.

[Replicator Todd]

We could try riding on a bunch of kinos....

[YutheGreat]

You know probably why the Ancients did not send ships that could fit through the Gate as far as the Destiny is concerned, especially with the revelation of the Kinos, is that they were not neccessarily going to do that much exploring outside the ship, obviously they provided back ups just in case, with the suits and such, but they probably just intended to send the Kinos to most planets, take readings, and go back to the Destiny.

Maybe but what about supplies? Unless they have an Asgard matter converter lying around in Destiny.