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    #16
    Originally posted by Keeper View Post
    on the other hand, it's 50 years or less since we predicted we'd be interstellar colonists by now, with bases all over our own system as well. where'd we go so far wrong?
    The Americans got to the moon first.

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      #17
      Only Brody and Park knew about hyperdrives, they may not have thought it was important info to tell the next generation.

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        #18
        Well just knowing that something exists is sometimes motivation enough to make it happen. The novans didn't exactly start life thinking that woman was created from a mans rib. Or that the world was flat. I'm still waiting on my flying car BTW. At this point I'll settle on a solar one. At $4 a gallon, do I have a choice?

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          #19
          I think you also have to look at the demands and needs of their society. To build hyperdrive and FTL tech, you have to have a demand for it. At the time, the population was very small, and the demand was not to explore, but to survive. That meant spending a lot of resource and tech in developing medical technologies. Additionally, the scientist on board the ship weren't hyperdrive specialist. Eli isn't even a PhD. He can calculate things, but in no means was he taught how the technologies work.

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            #20
            Originally posted by Ukko View Post
            From what can remember, didnt our own hyperdrive overload and explode? After that we used an Alkesh one and then Asgard ones. And we use (at least i believe) naquadria to power them. Does that exist in Novus' part of the universe?

            We may be able to bodge them together when we've got aliens or their tech to use, but i dont htink we can build them from scratch.
            I think there might be Naquada in the Novus System. At least Naquada seems to occur naturally and the SGU Gates need to be made with that. I know they can break more easilyand have a limited range, but that is probably just to make the production easier. Without it the Gates would hardly have the capacity of providing several Trips and as the Novans proofed thousands of them. Orlin created a Stargate for a one way trip with the things he found on earth. Since he did not have Naquada, that was the best he could do and he was an Ancient after all.

            Originally posted by RoK View Post
            My guess is that they really didn't need a reason to go into space (FTL mostly) until the disasters started about 30 odd years ago. Until then they most likely traveled off-world via Stargate for resources that they didn't have on the planet, if they needed it.
            Their Ancestors came to that world by means of a Spaceship that can fly faster than light. For People hundrets or thousand Years later, that sure would be something they would want to Achive.

            Not many People on Earth could actually explain a Hyperdrive from Scratch, the Crew from Destiny sure had some Info, but would it be enough for a solid research material?
            Fuzzy Wuzzy wasnt old,
            Fuzzy Wuzzy gotten bald
            There was Fuzzy no more Wuzzy

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              #21
              Originally posted by ckwongau View Post

              earth can build it's own hyperdive 6yr after alien contact.
              You have answered the question yourself.
              Last edited by wabbit42; 02 May 2011, 01:34 AM.
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                #22
                Didn't earth got their hyperdrive directly from the Asgards for SG1 saving Thor? I believe earth's early hyperdrives didn't do that well with the instability of Naquadria. I believe we didn't get viable FTL technology until the Asgards installed one on earth's first ship and then earth just copy the hyperdrive engine design wholesale for the other ships while they learn how it worked.

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                  #23
                  Yes.. it was in the episode Disclosure...

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                    #24
                    Originally posted by Shadow_7 View Post
                    Granted that we don't have colonies in space (yet).
                    Actually..... about that.....

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                      #25
                      I dont remember them saying they didnt have the tech for hyperdrives i just came to the conclusion that they didnt have time or enough mineral/material to build the hyperdrives on time

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