Originally posted by Gate Master
As far as the planetary drift work, check out episode 3x20 - Maternal Instinct. Carter pulls up two gate addresses, saying one is the version spit out by O'Neill's program (2x15 - The Fifth Race), while the other is from the cartoosh (sp?) on Abydos. IIRC, (and this shouldn't be shocking) the two addresses were different.
As for the correlative updates, I just looked at the transcript for Avenger 2.0, and this just gets more confusing. Carter states: "Well, sir, we think we may have an explanation. We know that the 'gate network has to undergo periodic correlative updates in order to compensate for stellar drift. Now, we've never witnessed it, but we believe that the 'gates dial each other automatically to transmit the new coordinates that apply to each address."
This completely supports any theory that the gate addresses are hard-wired, an idiotic idea and one which is illogical in every reguard. Excluding the memory issue, we still have the issue then of how Earth could connect to anywhere in the movie (The next correlative update wouldn't have registered it, and the DHDs keeping stuff like that around would be a BIG waste of memory. The Ancients weren't THAT stupid.) and why Earth didn't just use the Abydos DHD to get all the gate addresses.
Logically, I doubt the Goa'uld would be so stupid to overlook the possible advantage to their enemies with this method, as any System Lord could just keep a record of all updates and use the older ones for a comparison to find out if the enemy has a new planet.
It also removes the logic of why, in Exodus, the Tok'ra wanted to make a permanent base, as anyone with a DHD history would be able to pinpoint where their new planet is with the first time the gate would be used.
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