The Buried Gate

[morsu]

Did anyone notice that the gate was burried horizontally.
Yet they managed to get it into the upright position pretty easily.
That is one heck of a feat for a few poeple considering how heavy the gate is and they had no equipmet for a lift.

[escyos]

i think it fell over in its platform and could be turned back up easily.

[Shai Hulud]

Did anyone notice that the gate was burried horizontally.
Yet they managed to get it into the upright position pretty easily.
That is one heck of a feat for a few poeple considering how heavy the gate is and they had no equipmet for a lift.

been done in numerous other threads, someone posted up pictures, if you look closely you can see it is burried vertically not horizontally. Greer was standing on the apex of the arch of the gate.

[Mike.]

The gate is vertical. Here's some screecaps:

[click the images for full size]

[MattSilver 3k]

No. Just no. I did not notice it was buried horizontally. I noticed it was buried vertically. I honestly have no idea how people noticed otherwise - even if I didn't see the evidence of Greer standing on top of the ring or whatever, I would think it would just be more logical to the viewer that the four or five people digging the gate out didn't need to turn it rightways - it already was. This has really been done to death in the actual discussion thread, and here's a good picture PG15 brought in:



Any dissenters?

[xxxevilgrinxxx]

yep all the way up the thread
the gate was buried standing up, as Greer is standing on top of the ring
definitely not horizontal

[Blackhole]

Did anyone notice that the gate was burried horizontally.
Yet they managed to get it into the upright position pretty easily.
That is one heck of a feat for a few poeple considering how heavy the gate is and they had no equipmet for a lift.

The Gate does seem like it was vertical. I think it would have been a far greater feat to clear away all the dirt and rocks to expose the gate than to raise it. It would require moving hundreds if not thousands of tons of dirt and rocks and would have likely taken weeks by hand. Not only would they have to excavate around the gate but away from it to prevent the earth from collapsing back around it. It could never have been done in the time they had.

[Descended]

The Gate does seem like it was vertical. I think it would have been a far greater feat to clear away all the dirt and rocks to expose the gate than to raise it. It would require moving hundreds if not thousands of tons of dirt and rocks and would have likely taken weeks by hand. Not only would they have to excavate around the gate but away from it to prevent the earth from collapsing back around it. It could never have been done in the time they had.

Agreed that they cleared it a little too easily, but it could be done by hand eventually. Raising it would have been utterly impossible however. A gate weighs something like 26,000 pounds (if I remember correctly) and they would not have been able to move it under any circumstances.

They could have still used it if was face up, and then jumped into it after it dialed, but if it was face down they would have had a big problem.

[Avenger]

They used explosives to speed up the process considerably. Given that it was buried in loose rock, they would have been very effective at moving a lot of the rocks every time a charge was set off.

[morbosfist]

Thus proving that there are few things you cannot solve with liberal use of kaboom.

[Descended]

They used explosives to speed up the process considerably. Given that it was buried in loose rock, they would have been very effective at moving a lot of the rocks every time a charge was set off.

I love when they were worried about that little bit of C4 detonating the naquadah of the gate. We have seen those things hit with comets, nuked (even a mark IX won't destroy one unless it is behind the gate to prevent the gate from absorbing the explosion), and even thrown into a star, and they kept working... that little brick of C4 wouldn't have even scratched the paint.

[GoodSmeagol]

I love when they were worried about that little bit of C4 detonating the naquadah of the gate. We have seen those things hit with comets, nuked (even a mark IX won't destroy one unless it is behind the gate to prevent the gate from absorbing the explosion), and even thrown into a star, and they kept working... that little brick of C4 wouldn't have even scratched the paint.

Thats what I was thinking, uhh it survived a nuke going off inside a hive ship right beside it, which gave off enough power to make the gate jump to super size.

[morbosfist]

Eli isn't working off a detailed instruction manual. He hasn't dealt with all this. All he's got to go on is Daniel's instructional videos, and I must assume Daniel simply glossed over some of the more intricate details.

Volker has slightly less of an excuse, but maybe he's a recent hire.

[morsu]

Sorry my Mistake the gate was indeed Verticle.
This begs the question though because the amount of rubble that came towards the gate whether it be from any direction would have knocked the gate clean over. I don't care how sturdy the support structure is.

Maybe there was primitive life on that planet and they themselves burried the gate in rocks because they were scared.

[Pharaoh Atem]

yep all the way up the thread
the gate was buried standing up, as Greer is standing on top of the ring
definitely not horizontal

quoted so hopefully people realize this.