Talk:Stargate/@comment-92.52.23.13-20181225024017/@comment-92.52.23.13-20181225181355

No, it is still stupid. Stupid and impractical.

Fistly, you ignore the fact, that the constellations are not made of stars in the same region of space, only by the stars that have the same relative brightness on our night sky. Moreover, all of them move, calculating the position where you want to go with a coordinate system made up of constellations is stupid because you would get inaccuracy sometimes tens of light years. And, again, connecting to the other side of the galaxy would be impossible, because harldy any stars are visible from the Earth that are on the other side of the galaxy. In the original film and its book adaptation, the constellations inscribed on the gate differ planet by planet. That is stupid.

It would be better for every gate to have a unique combination. Why to call a point in space and not an actual gate? Imagine you have two gates on one planet, how do you differentiate between them - that actually happened multiple times in the show. Great, it is a nice plot device that the enemy is locking you down from the usage of the stargate, but it does not make any sense that it should be possible. Imagine that you lose your stargate, for example during an earthquake and it is not usable just because it is buried(but it is still functional and connected to the DHD). You put another gate on the planet and use it. Then, some time later, there is another earthquake that creates a cavity where your original gate is. Suddenly, you cant use your stargate and everyone that travels to your planet will get trapped somewhere underground.

It is also absolutely pointless to call points in space if there is no stargate nearby. So why even consider this option? Why not call actual gates? OK, you lose your ability to read the position of the other stargate just from the glyphs. But that does not really matter if you are not on Earth because you cant read the glyphs anyway.

And it is absolutely useless to not suppose that the point of origin is not your position. Why would you need to do that? Why would you need explicitly tell the gate the point of origin, why not just suppose your position as zero in the first place? You would need a lot more symbols to define all possible points of origin than 39. And if you did that, then you would not need to dial 6 symbols to call another gate, just two. Your point of origin and another symbol defining another planet. I guess that the original idea of the writers would be to create some universal galactic coordinate system, but that does not work thanks to the relative motion of stars in our galaxy. Also there was no DHD in the original film, which was also stupid(the gate needed people to move the inner ring manually).