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Post by valderra on Jan 16, 2005 6:41:55 GMT -5
In "The Tomb", it's mentioned that the Russians recovered a DHD from the Nazis at the end of WWII. It may have been mentioned in "Watergate", too. The stargate in "Watergate" is the one that was originally in the SGC. It was beamed up to Thor's ship when the replicators were destroying it. The Russians recovered it from the ocean after Thor's ship crashed. In the episode "1969", Daniel, impersonating the son of the German archaeologist her father worked with, implies that another object (a DHD) was recovered at the site of the original dig. Catherine Langford commented that she and her father had been certain there was something else to find at the dig, that the Stargate hadn't been complete. Sooo...I'm now wondering if I missed something about a WWII connection in the "Torment of Tantalus". There are a lot of little bits and pieces scattered about here and there. One thing I always wondered was why the SGC didn't want the DHD that was found in Antarctica. They're a lot more convenient than a huge mainframe computer. But, they're also a lot less configurable, I guess. For instance, I'm not sure how you would block an address so it wouldn't be accidentally or purposefully dialed once you decide a particular planet or location would be a good place to avoid in the future. But it would still be nice to have one as a backup when the mainframe goes down or is inhabited by an alien creature. I vagely remember that Daniel pretents to be German - god alone knows how they get away with it. LOL But whatever, I am not THAT fanatic about that or any other programme that I need to know every detail. I just enjoy it as it comes across the telly. ;D
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Post by Favorite15 on Jan 16, 2005 14:05:12 GMT -5
Maybe they'll give new insight into this matter when the new episodes come on the "telly."
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Post by oblivion on Jan 16, 2005 16:14:52 GMT -5
Me fanatical? Nah...Obsessive, absolutely obsessive, but not fanatical. Well maybe just a bit. ;D
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Post by valderra on Jan 16, 2005 17:03:01 GMT -5
Maybe they'll give new insight into this matter when the new episodes come on the "telly." Why do you put the word telly in these " ", F15? It's an English abbriviation for television. And LOL @ Oblivion.
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Post by Favorite15 on Jan 17, 2005 9:28:44 GMT -5
I havn't used the word telly in forever... thats why.
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Post by valderra on Jan 17, 2005 12:35:13 GMT -5
I havn't used the word telly in forever... thats why. Aaaall rightyyyyy.... LOL
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Post by Favorite15 on Jan 17, 2005 14:00:09 GMT -5
Thats what "t.v" is for...
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Post by valderra on Jan 17, 2005 18:34:03 GMT -5
Thats what "t.v" is for... You don't say... LOL ;D
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Post by robbie on Jan 18, 2005 9:23:33 GMT -5
that is all true,but from what i have found out that was not the only gate found on earth,another was found on Antartica,and i beloeve that as of the current season of SG-1 that is what we use
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Post by oblivion on Jan 18, 2005 11:47:18 GMT -5
That's right. When O'Neill transported the SGC/Egyptian stargate up to Thor's ship they broke the Antarctica one out of storage. And the Russians wound up with the one from Egypt because they salvaged it from the wreckage of the ship in the ocean.
I think the Egyptian stargate comes home in a later season (I'm finishing up season 5 a the moment)
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Post by robbie on Jan 18, 2005 12:06:27 GMT -5
yeah which the fact that there is two gates left me confused as to how you could dial earth and not have both gates on earth activate,unless of course during the time the antartica gate was in storage it had somehow been shut down,as we know it had a DHD.
Edit: but i also recall reading that there was a episode where they went to a planet whose gate did not have a DHD and it still worked so maybe a DHD is not required to run a gate.
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Post by oblivion on Jan 18, 2005 12:27:25 GMT -5
The reason the second gate activated in "Solitudes" was due to an energy surge from weapons discharge. Tracing the surge was how the SGC figured out where the second stargate was, just in time to keep O'Neill and Carter from turning into popsicles . Energy surges were also how the activation of the second gate was detected when Maybourne's bunch were using it and when the Russians activated it.
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Post by robbie on Jan 18, 2005 12:47:54 GMT -5
ah i see thats cool and i guess even a gate without a DHD can work,but i wouldnt want to go to a place where there was no way to dial back with a DHD,because wouldnt that mean manually dialing it
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Post by oblivion on Jan 18, 2005 16:48:39 GMT -5
There were a couple of episodes where they had to spin the wheel of fortune on the stargate manually because there was no working DHD. In 1969 they hooked it up truck batteries with jumper cables and spun the dial on the stargate itself by hand. The DHD also provides the power supply for the stargate as well as a way to enter the chevrons.
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Post by robbie on Jan 18, 2005 17:10:40 GMT -5
well if thats so wouldnt it also maybe be possible for the team to carry something with them that would allow them to dial bgy computer,sort of like at SGC.
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