On the topic of questions about SG-1, I'm curious how they managed to explain the loss of USS Nimitiz and her entire battle group in Lost City. Kinda hard to keep that a secret.
Meteor shower.
No, really.
Colson: As you all know, about five months ago our planet suffered a horrible tragedy. Over two thousand American servicemen and women were killed when a meteor shower disrupted global communications and hit a United States Naval carrier group on maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean. I'm here today to challenge the facts of that incident as they've been conveyed to the general public. On the day in question, none of our satellites detected a meteor shower. Now I don't know how many governments around the world are in on this, but I do know we are being lied to. And the truth is being covered up.
As much as I liked SG-1 in the beginning, I found the series getting more and more Star Trek-ish as it progressed. Some handwaves just did not make a lick of sense at all. This is one example. Any idiot looking through a Wal-Mart telescope would be able to see the Ha'Tak fleet in orbit. Not to mention that some of the most advanced and newest astronomical observatories are in the southern hemisphere.
I love SG-1, and sorta understand the problems with Disclosure, but the lengths they went to justify keeping the program secret in the later days got a bit ridiculous. The Nimitz is the most glaring example of that...or Lost City in general really.
Lost City would have been the perfect time to bring it into the open. It would have made Atlantis and the huge multinational expedition (complete with waaay more nations than the six who were told beforehand) make a lot more sense.
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Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
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On the topic of questions about SG-1, I'm curious how they managed to explain the loss of USS Nimitiz and her entire battle group in Lost City. Kinda hard to keep that a secret.
Meteor shower.
No, really.
Colson: As you all know, about five months ago our planet suffered a horrible tragedy. Over two thousand American servicemen and women were killed when a meteor shower disrupted global communications and hit a United States Naval carrier group on maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean. I'm here today to challenge the facts of that incident as they've been conveyed to the general public. On the day in question, none of our satellites detected a meteor shower. Now I don't know how many governments around the world are in on this, but I do know we are being lied to. And the truth is being covered up.
As much as I liked SG-1 in the beginning, I found the series getting more and more Star Trek-ish as it progressed. Some handwaves just did not make a lick of sense at all. This is one example. Any idiot looking through a Wal-Mart telescope would be able to see the Ha'Tak fleet in orbit. Not to mention that some of the most advanced and newest astronomical observatories are in the southern hemisphere.
You could see it with your eyes. The ISS is visible to the naked eye as a bright moving star or planet. A ha'tak (painted gold!) would be clearly visible as something larger.
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NecronLord wrote:You could see it with your eyes. The ISS is visible to the naked eye as a bright moving star or planet. A ha'tak (painted gold!) would be clearly visible as something larger.
Especially since Goa'ulds are such showboating bastards.
Yeah, it would have been good if Lost City had been used that way.
Grumman wrote:
Especially since Goa'ulds are such showboating bastards.
Yeah, it would have been good if Lost City had been used that way.
Eh, the Stargate Program had already leaked out on the Internet(remember that alien dude who eventually wrote a TC series about it? In the first episode he was in he mentioned he heard about the SGC on a messageboard), and you had contractors who were trying to whistleblow on it. Not to mention the journalist that the government popped in season 2. I would say that it was perilously close to being publicly outed for a long time.
All that is why I would have loved a "Disclosure" movie. Can you imagine? The government killed people to keep it secret. The government has put political enemies on a SPACE! GUANTANAMO! planet to keep it secret. In addition to the whole "aliens" thing.
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Eternal_Freedom wrote:Lost City would have been the perfect time to bring it into the open. It would have made Atlantis and the huge multinational expedition (complete with waaay more nations than the six who were told beforehand) make a lot more sense.
I was under the impression that particular bit of weirdness had to do with the Antarctic Treaty interacting with the fact that the Ancient installation used to repel Anubis' attack was underneath Antarctica.
The Vortex Empire: I think the real question is obviously how a supervolcano eruption wiping out vast swathes of the country would affect the 2016 election. Borgholio: The GOP would blame Obama and use the subsequent nuclear winter to debunk global warming.
