Shaky Shaky

[Colonel Carter]

I was working on the episode Solitudes this evening and something caught my attention.

In the episode, General Hammond explained that the reason the ground there doesn't shake anymore like it did in the movie is because they installed dampners or whatever to lessen the vibrations. This then explains why the Antartica gate had so much vibration.

However, I see a serious problem with this explanation. If that is so, then how come they don't experience these vibrations on other worlds that they visit? Since Earth is more advanced than most cultures they come across and the Ancients, who were more advanced than them, never thought to install them or the Antartica gate would have had them, we should assume these dampners only exist at the SGC gate and possibly ones in highly advanced cultures like the one on the Asgard home world.

Another problem I found with this world - if you go according to the movie, then the coordinates for earth are not on the earth Stargate. Daniel said in the movie when they looked at the images the probe sent back, "These symbols don't match the symbols on our gate."

Therefore, their home symbols are not on their stargate and should not be on the Antartica gate either. Therefore it should have been impossible for Sam to dial home to begin with thus causing the reaction from the second gate.

Anyone have any thoughts?

[PKidd18]

Well, as far as the vibriations, the gate isn't in it's original location. Maybe there is something in the "stand" that the gate is in on other worlds has the same effect as the dampeners have on the earth gate... :yes although that doens't explain the vibrations from the Antartic gate if it was still in it's little "stand".... :scrch

I've wonered about the differnt symbols, too... and in "Chldren of the Gods", Daniel had to "figure out" the right address to dial to go home, so... I don't understand that one either... It never did make much sense to me... :no

[Colonel Carter]

Can we assume the Antartica gate is not in its original location? I assumed it was, especially given that the DHD was right there in front of it. At some point in history, Antartica was not a glacier but a fertile land, way back with the Ancients inhabited the world. I assumed that was their location for the Stargate and it simply got buried by ice, for whatever reason. Maybe the story is that the earth was beginning to suffer an ice age and that's why the Ancients left. Or perhaps they turned their country into such glacier so less advanced people wouldn't discover their technology prematurely and destroy themselves with it.