Talk:Stardrive

Quick question. I am relying on all of you Wiki-experts to make this a nice talk page like everybody else's with headings and indents and such, but in the meantime here goes. No matter how much electrical power one possesses, electrons cannot lift a multi-megaton city off the surface of an Earth-size planet with Earth-size gravity. Therefore, powered by nothing but ZPMs and a geothermal plant, how does Atlantis fly? The most logical explanation given that the stardrive is purely electrical is that gigantic inertial dampeners/artificial-inertia-jet-thingies on the bottom of the city create a huge blast of artificial inertia--or something, since that really doesn't make sense--to give the city upward inertia and everything else (water, air, ice (Rising)) down-and-outwards inertia, creating a net acceleration of the city upwards. If this is the case, the dampeners would provide constant acceleration, and the city would not stall out, avoiding the raising-shield-barely-stops-the-Asuran-beam-which-hits-the-control-tower-breaks-the-city-and-practically-kills-thank-God-by-the-way-I-never-liked-her-Dr.-Weir issue present in SGA 0320 First Strike. Any ideas? Sincerely, Myrrlyn (talk) (Contribs) 20:27, June 1, 2010 (UTC)