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Originally posted by PTeppic
[Didn't mean to shout...]
You can't send stuff backwards through the wormhole (see "A Hundred Days" [and "Wormhole X-treme!"?]), but it seems that ("Shades of Grey") there is still a sensor/buffer which can be used to keep the gate open.
Thinking about it, in eps such as "Message in a Bottle" they open the gate (to return the orb) and somehow keep it open, whilst "things" happen in the gateroom, and it just sits there gurgling with no-one even on the ramp, let alone approaching the gate. Finally, the technician asks, a couple of minutes later, whether they should shut down the gate, and do so...
I've wondered (since the iris is "built in" to the rim of the gate, as is the SGC's "traveller detection" radar/sensor) whether they've installed a small device inside the edge of the wormhole to manually keep the gate open (and in "Shades of Grey" Jack was just making a point, without having to get the Control Room to do anything). |
But Did He keep his arm there and not pll it through with him because thats still sending matter the rght way, buit what does the matter do when the arm is just there..remain frozen..?
Perhaps sience the SCG dosent use a DHD like most other stargates they (The SGC) have more 'control' over the gate until the 38 min time lkimit runs out...
Or then again the sensors could be in the DHD i rember one esipode when the gate wouldent work because the DHD had been hit by a staff weapon...If this is the case then why dont the Go'uld damage more DHDs..? They do have the ring transport...
Either way..Becuse the sgc uses electrity and because the alien in sams house used electrity perhaps electrity because it is less unstable gives you more control over the gate.
-Lili-