So. I never watched the show in order until recently. Im on the late season 2 episode with the wormhole and I think I was scratching my head before with some other episodes as I thought it was two way. That episode finally made it clear it was one way. Also will add a mildly infuriating but do a community search for stargate does not bring up this community.
cybervseas 20 points 10 days ago
The connection does allow radio frequencies to travel in both directions. If I remember correctly. So it's one-way for travel, two-way for communication.
Speiser0 9 points 10 days ago
And fluids, like water and air(?), don't come through by themselves, if the gate is inside a large body of that fluid. If it's a stream of grain or soup, it does go through though. Oh, and gravity can come through.
FaceDeer 13 points 10 days ago
It makes a lot more sense when you learn that the rippling puddle effect isn't actually the wormhole itself. The wormhole is microscopic, the Stargate is more like a transporter pad that breaks you down and squirts you through it to reassemble on the other side. So there's actually an Ancient computer doing all the work, and it can "decide" how some of those rules work in an arbitrary manner.
Which does make me wonder why the heck the Ancients designed the Stargate to disassemble stuff that enters the puddle in a situation where it's got nowhere to send it. I guess that was all long before OSHA.
Uruanna 1 point 9 days ago
Which does make me wonder why the heck the Ancients designed the Stargate to disassemble stuff that enters the puddle in a situation where it's got nowhere to send it.
What situation are you thinking of? The gate can't open at all if the exit can't open. If it can open, there's the big swoosh that blows several meters ahead and disintegrates anything in the way. If you mean the iris, it's set something like a few microns ahead of the surface, so atoms can pass, they just get smashed on the iris. It's not like the gate is going to constantly measure the size of shit that goes through and visually check if someone didn't just put up a wall in front. Also, the Ancients themselves did use shield technology that exact same way, see the Atlantis version, so it is all on purpose.
FaceDeer 3 points 9 days ago
I mean that if you enter a Stargate that's going the "wrong way", as in it's an incoming wormhole rather than an outgoing one, it just disintegrates you and sends you nowhere.
For example, in the SG-1 episode “A Hundred Days,” a Stargate is lying flat. A MALP probe emerges from it and immediately falls back into the receiving gate, destroying it.
FordBeeblebrox 6 points 10 days ago
I can’t remember if some of the UAVs are wire guides or all RF but they work fine until someone stomps on them
HubertManne 3 points 10 days ago
yes. I definately see that. I guess its to way if you can move at the speed of light.
HubertManne 3 points 10 days ago
doh. I got nothing with stargate then then wracked my brain and was like. its chevron something.
nocturne 3 points 10 days ago
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It is in the about for this community too.
Rhaedas 5 points 10 days ago
There seems to be a directional force on things, like a current. Shown most dramatically on Universe's opening, being that such a long trip gave a lot of push. So I'm guessing if you tried to stick your hand back into it, the field would push back.
And it would need that push, because what if something just rolled into a gate gently. Can't have that get stuck, so it's like an automatic clearing effect of the wormhole.
Remember the one Atlantis one where the puddle jumper gets stuck. They have to give enough of a push to get the rest of it moving into the gate, but it came out a bit faster than that push was.
Kolanaki 1 point 10 days ago
Oh yeah, I do remember the stuck puddle jumper. Wasn't one of the problems that it was slowly inching one way and the guys inside would be crushed against the gate's portal if they didn't fix it quick enough?
Rhaedas 11 points 10 days ago
The shield is for hostiles incoming. I think that was established within the first episode, you dial in, send the code, and the shield isn't used. And the movie set up the one way part, otherwise there's no plot to find the dial home address.
That's just how that physics works. You can't have a water slide go both directions.
HubertManne 1 point 10 days ago
you know I started rewatching the series but did not think to do the movie again. which I did not like as much.
Rhaedas 3 points 10 days ago
The series is far better, but that's not fair to the movie since it had a unique idea to try and piece together in one shot. The series corrected some of the issues and ran with it, and because it could developed the characters and stories better. And still gave numerous credits and nods to the film that started it all.
It's okay to not like the movie that much, there's a lot of things wrong with it. But more that's right. :)
HubertManne 3 points 10 days ago
I mean I think we see this in the modern age. series used to be seen as lesser than movies but now series are seen as kinda a better medium to tell the whole story. I think that is why we have ones with one or only a few seasons now because there is really only so much to the story.
Zron 3 points 10 days ago
In one of the SG-1 episodes, the gang is stuck in some kind of underground jail where the captors just throw people and food through the gate. There’s no DHD on the jail side. So some of the prisoners try to escape by going into the wormhole but it’s the wrong way. Some also let themselves get swallowed by the woosh.
Gang escapes by using some mcguffin electric tree roots and manually dialing the gate.
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