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PTeppic · 26th August 2002, 07:23 PM

I think we are agreeing about what WOULD happen looking at points in space from widely differing viewpoints... :blush:

But, if used for Stargate navigation, would that make the system unusable, if every trip you had to re-calculate a potentially large proportion of the chevrons, before dialling home. [Not to mention expensive for anyone filming this.

:evil:]

Having a fixed "symbolic" representation for each "constellation" would remove this problem, and mean that, for example, SG-1 only have to learn a single dial-home address no matter where they go. The Ancients would have only a single problem then - deciding what to put on these fixed glyphs. And oddly enough used 20th century Earth as the viewpoint... :eek7:

26th August 2002, 07:23 PM	#9 (permalink)
PTeppic Reetou Diplomatic Corp Join Date: May 2001 Location: North-west UK Posts: 3,104	I think we are agreeing about what WOULD happen looking at points in space from widely differing viewpoints... :blush: But, if used for Stargate navigation, would that make the system unusable, if every trip you had to re-calculate a potentially large proportion of the chevrons, before dialling home. [Not to mention expensive for anyone filming this. :evil:] Having a fixed "symbolic" representation for each "constellation" would remove this problem, and mean that, for example, SG-1 only have to learn a single dial-home address no matter where they go. The Ancients would have only a single problem then - deciding what to put on these fixed glyphs. And oddly enough used 20th century Earth as the viewpoint... :eek7: