Comments on: Why isn’t the floor demolished when the stargate kawooshes?

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:41:38 +0000

Cool! I think I can buy that explanation. I forgot about seeing that in Prisoners. That was a good episode too! :)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:51:37 +0000

Stargate SG1 had them captured in a prison – where some prisoners believed that they could escape buy running into the event horizon formation burst. You will notice that the persons boots remained behind, showing the the outgoing force was not uniform but centralized.

My theory is that the floor surfaces for these gates are made from the same material as the gate itself and can conduct the engy needed to form the event – so the resulting wormhole is not Entirely round – but forms at the surface of the floor.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:48:47 +0000

I can sort of see what you’re saying here, but in the episode The Light in Stargate SG-1, a team member that Daniel Jackson was working with ran into the vortex and was destroyed. His entire being disappeared the best I could tell. I mean, his feet didn’t appear to be left behind, although they would have been below the level of the vortex even more so than the floor as it appears in Stargate Atlantis and in Stargate Universe (because in SG-1 the gate is at the top of a sloped ramp and his feet would have been lower than the vortex until he was right in the center of the ring of the gate). So, I’m not sure I believe that your explanation explains away the issue for me. Still, it’s better than what I’ve got as an explanation, which is nothing! Because I just can’t seem to explain this away in my own mind, even though I’m able to set it aside when I watch most episodes. In the end though, it never really goes away. :)

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:41:28 +0000

I’m note sure if you’re talking about the event horizon (“puddle”) or the unstable wormhole (“sideways flush”) destroying the floor, so I’ll solve both.

EVENT HORIZON
The floor is already in the ring when the puddle forms, so it doesn’t get cut off at all (hard to explain. Like blowing up a baloon around your hand, as opposed to putting your hand in a blown up baloon. Something like that, but simpler).

UNSTABLE VORTEX EJECTION
The U.V. is ejected from the CENTRE of the event horizon, not the entire puddle, so it never actually touches the floor (thanks to careful Ancient measuring when “planting” it, probably).

By: darukai

darukai — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:35:55 +0000

I understand what you mean i noticed it too,
if the gates tilted back the it wouldnt destroy the floor, when the gate creates a wormhole the extension of the event horrizon doesnt come for the outer edge its form in the centre,

but nether the less i think your reading in to the imgeing not the story of the show,

try to relax alittle :D