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Originally posted by Daneel Olivaw
You need a lot more 3-D mass than that to stabilize a stargate (jumpgate). Maybe if it was in the center of the mountain. Most jumpgates use large asteroids/small planetoids.
Originally posted by Daneel Olivaw
You need a lot more 3-D mass than that to stabilize a stargate (jumpgate). Maybe if it was in the center of the mountain. Most jumpgates use large asteroids/small planetoids.
Originally posted by Daneel Olivaw
You need a lot more 3-D mass than that to stabilize a stargate (jumpgate). Maybe if it was in the center of the mountain. Most jumpgates use large asteroids/small planetoids.
Originally posted by whos_out_there
Originally posted by Daneel Olivaw
You need a lot more 3-D mass than that to stabilize a stargate (jumpgate). Maybe if it was in the center of the mountain. Most jumpgates use large asteroids/small planetoids.
Im just Curious as to how anyone from this world would know the mass or what size asteroid is needed to be considered a stargate, (maybe from the SG1 show fact book)
Originally posted by Daneel Olivaw
The Stargate show is fictional, although they did get some things right by accident. One of them was the requirement for a large 3-D mass enclosure to "smooth out" any stray field forces. From what I understand, you need at least 5 million tons of material surrounding the gate. That much will get you from here to, oh, Triton pretty safely.
Originally posted by stumason
Also, why would "Aliens" use imperial measurements? I would have thought they would have their own, or at the very least, describe it in tonnes, not tons.
EDIT: Also, 5 million tons is not a huge amount of mass. Seems somewhat iffy to me....
Originally posted by longhaircowboy
It's obvious we have a new pretender to the crown or if you prefer a poser, fakir, etc.