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Originally posted by Desepticon4
No your wrong. There are a set number of 39 symbols available. They are on every Staragate they incounter(except for the point of origen, that is different). If the symbols were different on every planet, then people going through the Stargate would have a hard time finding the right adress to get home. |
In fact Muzungu is right, in a way. In the movie the 38 glyphs were unique to each gate and were based on constellations visible from the planet the gate was on. This is why the glyphs on the Abydos stargate were very different to the earth gate: the constellations on earth weren't the same as the constellations visible on Abydos. This is also true in COTG. When SG-1 arrived on Chulak Daniel had to decipher the plyphs on the DHD and tell the others what glyphs to press in order to get home. However rather then have Daniel spending hours at the dhd working out what each glyph represents and because of the numerous times SG teams have to go through the gate in a hurry the production team made every DHD relatively the same as the earth DHD to save time in decoding what each glyph means. This moves away from the idea of plotting a course in 3 dimensional space and into the realm of fixed address.
Found all the above on a website so don't blame me if its all wrong.
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