Originally posted by nivao
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The "If there's a DHD it doesn't need to spin" is never stated. The milky way gates aren't shown spinning for budget, pacing, plot and technical/prop reasons - but they are heard spinning on many, many occasions and it's implied that they do spin on dialing a few times.
With the Pegasus gate, the inner track doesn't spin, no - but that digital dialing through symbols is the same functionally as what spinning does on the Milky Way gates. It's the Pegasus gate's version of spinning - revolving to each constellation symbol and locking them one by one.
Pegasus gates cannot be dialed manually because it's gone from physical dialing to digital. The Destiny gate isn't stated either way, but i expect manual dialing would involve spinning the entire gate. The ability to manually dial isn't directly relevant to whether there's spinning through glyphs upon dialing, however.
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