Why did the Tau'ri avoid on trying to make their own Stargates or Spacegates or Supergates?
Why did the Tau'ri avoid on trying to make their own Stargates or Spacegates or Supergates?
The Tollan stargate was still made with help from the Nox!
Regardless, there was no reason for anyone to even have done that in the first place while they had their stargate and by the time they would have needed one it would be too late.
But I'm done talking about this. You just keep pushing for something extremely difficult, resource costly, and impractical and act like it would have been an easy task which it wouldn't have been while ignoring all the steps and things that would have to be involved.
Before ending on this discussion, everything takes time, but the Destiny Expedition did have loads of time.
WHY would they take apart their own gate to reverse engineer it when they would have no idea if they even could reverse engineer it let alone even be able to put back their own gate together again!
It's a HUGE risk.
You said, you were done and I said I was done.
I am done. That was my last words on the matter.
They didn't have two Stargates, the alternate Destiny only went back in time 12 hours, not 2000 years. And as for Rush 'guiding them' or whatever... again, he was not one of the ones who went back in time. And why would they bother? What is the point? Yes, Novus' gate was destroyed. But that's when they decided to evacuate the planet by ship. And it looks like they evacuated everyone. There was no one left.
Now, as for them not having hyperdrives. Yeah, they probably should've had files on their laptops. However, they didn't bring their laptops. They were going through with 'the clothes on their backs, nothing more.' They thought they were heading back to Earth. Yes, Eli brought a Kino and a remote, but I'm guessing that was because his documentary was on it, and it's a cool piece of technology you can't get on Earth. Why would anyone bother bringing a laptop when laptops already exist on Earth? Maybe some of the original crew knew how to build hyperdrives. But obviously they just didn't think to write down how. Why not? They just didn't. They were a colonial society, those people would not be building spaceships anytime soon. Yes their decendants would, but obviously they didn't think hyperdrives were a big thing their society would eventually need. Why would they? Just wasn't a priority or concern for them.
There was that gate that Orlin built that was only meant to work in the short term using the power grid and many different earth materials,
i think naquda was just the most efficient long lasting power source that most planets had within their natural resources.
I had a theory that the SGU gates ran off of something else as the gate on the destiny ran off of a type of solar energy as it was directly tied within the ships systems.
I had a similar theory, that the Destiny-class gates were made of a low-quality Naquadah alloy, rather than pure Naquadah. It's not because the Ancient's designs called for that, it's because the Seed Ships used whatever materials they came across, likely from asteroids since they'd be the easiest to harvest. And Naquadah is not the most plentiful of materials, so the ships, likely with their own AI, had to make do with what they had.
That explains why they have such a short range, and it could also mean some gates would be better constructed and more efficient and have even greater range than others. Destiny's gate on the other hand has such a short-range not as a required function, but as a safety precaution. To prevent the crew from getting stranded, it only dials gates that are within the minimum possible range of a Stargate the Seed Ships are specced to manufacture (any gate with a smaller range than this the Seed Ships would just scrap and recycle; if they build them at all).
It would also explain those episodes where it's like, 'we dropped out and are not in range of any gates whatsoever.' And then, 'we're on a planet and can leapfrog the gates to get from one end of the network to the other.' I mean, think about that mathematically. The Destiny can be between two gates, neither of which are in range of Destiny, but are in range of each other? The only way that would make sense is if Destiny has the shortest range of all. And how could that be if it could still dial Earth? I figure, only if it's a programmed thing, like a safety feature.
Anyway, don't know if this counts as on-topic. I'm just rambling.
Ramble away my dude, I do it all the time especially when it comes to the theories in this show.
What do you think?