If you double the diameter of the shield, you increase the surface area of the shield by 4, but the volume of the sphere increases by 8. And since pressure is a factor of volume, that would reduce the energy required by the shield by half. All they had to do was let the shield expand a bit, and they could have contained the explosion no problem. Also, if all else failed, why not let the explosion vent in a controlled manner in a safe direction?
The one thing i wondered is could in theory the energy stored in the capsters of a stargate be channeled into other systems. since in theory if you could they could have beeld of the overloading surge of power but starting up systems like the stardrive
You'd have really thought they'd retrofit the gate room and have installed a whole suite of blast doors and glass by now like the SGC. Hell probably they'd have moved the gate room to somewhere in the heart of the city by now specifically for this purpose. It kinda makes sense why the ancients didn't do it- they were pretty unconcerned with failure and appearances meant a lot to them
I don't care if it wasn't officially confirm I still think Sheppard was has strong or even smarter than Rodney and Radek! just not educated in the field
An additional command to 'everyone who doesn't need to be here get to the edge of the city..." would have been... "Anyone who can fly a jumper, get upstairs and fly one to the edge of the city. For all they knew the blast when it happened could have also taken out thye jumper room above the gate room. Oh the joys have growing up reading the classical science fiction novels :)
See, what they _should_ have done was open a hole in the back of the shield, the side facing away from the gate room, and allowed the pressure to shoot out through the hole. That would have greatly limited the damage while also reducing the amount of pressure on the shield. This would have let the shield last for the duration of the explosion.
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Man took, an explosion that could take out a small continent to "you can survive being in the same room as it, albeit with extreme, instant medical care
I remember seeing this when it aired where I am. I also remember thinking, if they have such precise control of the Atlantis shield emitters, simply dial down the outward-facing ones, and allow the energy to bleed off on a somewhat directed manner. There was a large window behind the gate which you see in the outside shot. As long as there were no city structures in the way, all good. Worst-case, it might have capsized Atlantis, or they could have at least done zoomies around on the ocean surface with the city.
Atlantis really was the Ancients at the height of their tech. Everything worked together like giant cogwheels in a machine. The city itself was the biggest star in this series if you ask me.
On the high seas... No but really, I just had a rewatch of couple episodes, and it turned out that it's not available on Amazon in my region for god knows what reason.
Your thoughts on the current controlled extraterrestrial reality disclosure process and related US GOV cover-up? Does this issue sorta transcend politics and just about anything else? When the contagious giggling subsides, how will our civilization adapt to this publicly known reality? What might be some of the potential implications of disclosure of this reality? Do we really want to know the complete truth?
the only worse thing the writers did for this show, was to never allow the expidition to figure out where the ZPMs were made.. not even when dr Weir went to bck in time, or her replicator one..never gave the secret..that would have beenmy first demand..before anything else
I appreciate how the scientists/engineers in SGA are all actually good at their job. Compare that to SG1 where all the scientists, that aren't Carter, are made to look like a bunch of imbeciles that are so bad at their supposed 'expertise' that they could barely pass a high school AP physics exam. Its sad when you see writers having to resort to making some characters incompetent just to try and make others look good. In the end it makes Rodney look more impressive than Carter because he's the most intelligent person among a lot of intelligent people, whereas Carter is almost always shown as only being smarter than a bunch of idiots. They even made Rodney look stupid when he first showed up in the franchise on SG1. Thankfully when they made SGA they saw the potential his character had and brought him onto the show where we got to see him actually being the genius he was always supposed to be.
The writers on this show really outdid themselves with the characters. Hero, villain, major character, minor character, you couldn't help but like just about all of them. So much so that it got to me when Peter Grodin died. Hell, I liked Kolya! Then again, I like Robert Davi anyway. And, of course, the ever put-upon Zelenka.
This was true SciFi. It clearly is pseudo science gibberish nonsense like collapse shield around the gate etc. but I love it as a tech guy. This is pure fiction and love it. Shame the show was killed. It had another 5 years easily in it.
Being part of Mensa proves that he can think logically and his military training taught him to remain calm and focused during stressful situations. While others panic he can think of ideas that the technicians/scientist can use. He probably doesn't know HOW to collapse the City shield, but can tell Zelenka to do it.
