If Atlantis was so advanced why no satellites?

Originally posted by nrky
Currently, what do we use sattelites for?
1. Communications:
----We currently have the technology to bounce certain signals off of the atmosphere, is it not possible that the atlanteans could do this too, on a more advanced scale?

2. ICBM tracking networks:
----Not needed, since there were no earth-based enemies of the Atlanteans (they were all interstellar, with FTL/timespace-folding technology). Besides, any craft picked up on the scanners would be intercepted by vessels travelling in the upper atmosphere.

3. Weapons:
----Any weapon of significant strength needs a fuel source, and it would be impractical to have self-sustainable sattelites in orbit that could respond to attacks, so instead they could use a network of refractor arrays to wirelessly channel power to nodes in the network as it was needed. Once the power in the network was stopped, the sattelites would have succumbed to decaying orbit.

4. Orbital platforms/Space stations:
----With the ability to warp space and time it would seem pointless to have a permanently fixed landing pad as a planetary sattelite. It would make more sense to have the wormhole exit somewhere in between earth, mars, that planet that used to be where the asteroid belt now is, and that planet/artificial moon that lives outside the orbit of pluto.


It IS possible that the Atlanteans may have accidentally left behind some sattelites, but after 14 thousand years you'd think that the sattelites would have been destroyed by debris, or taken/destroyed by other alien races (or even our own), or that they even ARE still out there, and that the governments aren't telling us about them.

P.S Stargate: Atlantis is a major disinformation attempt, don't take any of it's # seriously.

It's like you read my mind....good ideas!!! Maybe there are ancient Satellites but the governments are keeping them a secret. Sometimes I wonder if the Stargate shows is really a form of disinformation....

One of my ideas is that maybe Atlantis (if it existed) was advanced due to extraterrestrial influence. but since we ended up blowing ourselves up the extraterrestrials have decided to watch our progress and to influence us slightly.