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AZRedhawk44

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Stargate Question
« on: August 12, 2011, 02:20:35 AM »
After enjoying "Stargate Universe," I've started watching the entire Stargate series from SG-1 season 1.

I have a question:

There's a front side to a Stargate that everyone seems to use.  It's the side with the chevrons used for navigation.

Does anyone ever explore what happens if you enter a stargate from the "back" side that has no chevrons?
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2011, 05:53:33 AM »
Probably not more than 2-3 Stargate episodes I haven't seen and I can't recall that ever being brought up.
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2011, 08:16:06 AM »
Simple.  You can't.  The wormhole is one-way.

No wait, that's not tech enough.  The event horizon, formed from the naquadah in the gate, only allows matter to pass in a singledirection due to it's unidirectional curvature of the space time continuum, resulting in an ever increasing force that repels objects attempting to travel through the other side.
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2011, 08:38:21 AM »
Quote from: birdman on August 12, 2011, 08:16:06 AM
Simple.  You can't.  The wormhole is one-way.

No wait, that's not tech enough.  The event horizon, formed from the naquadah in the gate, only allows matter to pass in a singledirection due to it's unidirectional curvature of the space time continuum, resulting in an ever increasing force that repels objects attempting to travel through the other side.
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That can't be right or they would have found a way to use that to save the planet in the last 5 minutes of the show.
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2011, 08:50:14 AM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on August 12, 2011, 02:20:35 AM
After enjoying "Stargate Universe," I've started watching the entire Stargate series from SG-1 season 1.

I have a question:

There's a front side to a Stargate that everyone seems to use.  It's the side with the chevrons used for navigation.

Does anyone ever explore what happens if you enter a stargate from the "back" side that has no chevrons?

I don't recall anyone ever trying that, but I would assume the same thing happens that occurs if you stand in front of the wormhole when it opens. (You die and leave behind a smoking pair of feet, cut off at the ankles.)
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2011, 09:52:30 AM »
Quote from: birdman on August 12, 2011, 08:16:06 AM
Simple.  You can't.  The wormhole is one-way.


...and it's only two-dimensional....it doesn't have a "back side".....
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2011, 10:22:55 AM »
I only watch the episodes of SG1 with Claudia Black in them.  She is a hottie that takes the stuffiness out of the rest of the cast.....chris3
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2011, 11:11:08 AM »
Claudia Black is in Stargate? 

She's the gal from Farscape, right?
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2011, 11:16:51 AM »
There were one or two episodes where they showed the back side.  It looked like a funnel sticking out.
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2011, 11:19:57 AM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on August 12, 2011, 11:11:08 AM
Claudia Black is in Stargate? 

She's the gal from Farscape, right?

Yes, she was there for the last season (or 2? I didn't get to watch those.)
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2011, 12:08:57 PM »
Jack: "How about we try it backwards? Just because we've never done it before doesn't mean it won't--"
Bra'tac: "I once knew a man who thought the same as O'Neill. His death was most unpleasant.
Jack: "Thanks for clearing that one up, Bra'tac. What do we do? Carter?"
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2011, 12:19:09 PM »
Quote from: Harold Tuttle on August 12, 2011, 12:08:57 PM
Jack: "How about we try it backwards? Just because we've never done it before doesn't mean it won't--"
Bra'tac: "I once knew a man who thought the same as O'Neill. His death was most unpleasant.
Jack: "Thanks for clearing that one up, Bra'tac. What do we do? Carter?"


Bra'tac should have been put in charge of SG Command.... :cool:
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #12 on: August 12, 2011, 12:26:46 PM »
Quote from: seeker_two on August 12, 2011, 12:19:09 PM
Bra'tac should have been put in charge of SG Command.... :cool:

Every time anything looked like it was going south Bra-tac kept trying to go all kamikaze.  The show would have ended in Season 2 with a mushroom cloud in colorado if he were in charge!
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #13 on: August 12, 2011, 12:54:30 PM »
Quote from: 41magsnub on August 12, 2011, 12:26:46 PM
Every time anything looked like it was going south Bra-tac kept trying to go all kamikaze.  The show would have ended in Season 2 with a mushroom cloud in colorado if he were in charge!

Yeah....but the war with the Goa'uld would have ended in Season One....  :cool:
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #14 on: August 12, 2011, 12:57:26 PM »
Quote from: seeker_two on August 12, 2011, 12:54:30 PM
Yeah....but the war with the Goa'uld would have ended in Season One....  :cool:

Yeah, by using the dakara device...set it for goa'uld, extra crispy.  Though, I would have suggested waiting until they discovered tratonin...and a way to protect the tok'ra...otherwise the collateral damage would have been severe :(
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #15 on: August 12, 2011, 05:57:30 PM »
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #16 on: August 12, 2011, 11:01:44 PM »
I liked the first 4 seasons. They kept it funny and didn't take themselves too seriously.
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #17 on: August 12, 2011, 11:10:52 PM »
Quote from: drewtam on August 12, 2011, 11:01:44 PM
I liked the first 4 seasons. They kept it funny and didn't take themselves too seriously.

Yep.  I dig the "MacGuyver" reference in the pilot, and in season two when O'Neill gerry-rigs some batteries to the glorified fish tank for the G'ould. :lol:
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Re: Stargate Question
« Reply #18 on: August 12, 2011, 11:11:46 PM »
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