SG1: Beachhead.

Akaramu Shinja · Post by **Akaramu Shinja** » 2005-08-22 08:54am

Is there any official spelling for Alterran? I'd be curious to know if it was spelled Alterran if you get my drift.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2005-08-22 01:13pm

I think its alteran with 1 R..

thats how i see it. if its 2 hours it screws up the pronounciation

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2005-08-22 03:39pm

Ender wrote:My old estimates of Gateverse energy levels look more and more reasonable.

Someone over at sb.com posted a low-end 12-17TT yield (depending on how well they did the scaling).

I think at the very least this is a very impressive big bang, especially considering the shield was leeching most of the energy from the explosion into powering the shield.

Akaramu Shinja · Post by **Akaramu Shinja** » 2005-08-22 05:08pm

Zac Naloen wrote:thats how i see it. if its 2 hours it screws up the pronounciation

How? It sounds the same as Terran, which as two r's.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2005-08-23 01:51pm

Akaramu Shinja wrote:
Zac Naloen wrote:thats how i see it. if its 2 hours it screws up the pronounciation
How? It sounds the same as Terran, which as two r's.

i dunno, i always seem to hear a stress on the e, like alt"air"ren

Plushie · Post by **Plushie** » 2005-08-23 02:01pm

Alyeska wrote:
ggs wrote:
Ender wrote:A 100 mile radius for the fireball makes for a 47.45 teraton warhead.

...

For some perspective, this is the equivlent of annihilating 2,214 tons of matter.
I think we can safely say that Naquadah/Naquadriah is a Zero Point Energy source.

There isnt enough mass in the gatebuster nuke to account for all the energy.
Thats almost certainly how Naqueda and Naquadriah work in the first place. The level of power they generate and how they increase explossive yields of nuclear level events.

I've always had the idea that Naquada isn't some exotic new element, but literally a microscopic ZPM. When it's ripped apart in any kind of explosion, it releases all its energy. Maybe Naquadriah is a microscopic implementation of the device from Trinity...

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-08-23 03:45pm

Plushie wrote:I've always had the idea that Naquada isn't some exotic new element, but literally a microscopic ZPM. When it's ripped apart in any kind of explosion, it releases all its energy. Maybe Naquadriah is a microscopic implementation of the device from Trinity...

A nice idea, but I'm pretty sure they are minning rocks, not tiny little subspace power batteries.

Akaramu Shinja · Post by **Akaramu Shinja** » 2005-08-23 06:35pm

Zac Naloen wrote:i dunno, i always seem to hear a stress on the e, like alt"air"ren

Is that not how Terran is pronounced? T"air'ren?

Am I saying terran wrong all these years?

Plushie · Post by **Plushie** » 2005-08-23 06:58pm

InnocentBystander wrote:
Plushie wrote:I've always had the idea that Naquada isn't some exotic new element, but literally a microscopic ZPM. When it's ripped apart in any kind of explosion, it releases all its energy. Maybe Naquadriah is a microscopic implementation of the device from Trinity...
A nice idea, but I'm pretty sure they are minning rocks, not tiny little subspace power batteries.

Well, most rocks are atoms arranged in a crystalline pattern.

Who's to say, you know?

Old Plympto · Post by **Old Plympto** » 2005-08-23 10:47pm

I just got to thinking:

Tauri meets Goauld, Tauri gets Goauld technology, despite hostilites.

Tauri meets Asgard, Asgard gives Tauri some of their technology.

Tauri discovers Ancient technology, Tauri keeps Ancient technology (and one city)

Now Tauri meets Ori.

I can't wait for SCG to have its own 400 meter wide, black hole powered, intergalactic space-based super stargates.

spikenigma · Post by **spikenigma** » 2005-08-24 08:51am

a good SG1 ep of course

whilst the gatebaster nuke was impressive, I wonder just how much energy it takes to crush a planet sized object into the size of a subatomic singularity?

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2005-08-24 01:30pm

Akaramu Shinja wrote:
Zac Naloen wrote:i dunno, i always seem to hear a stress on the e, like alt"air"ren
Is that not how Terran is pronounced? T"air'ren?

Am I saying terran wrong all these years?

alterran would be pronounced with emphasis on the R sound. I pronounce alteran with an emphasis on the e. i can't remember how to write pronounciation keys or else i'd be able to explain better

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2005-08-24 01:43pm

spikenigma wrote:a good SG1 ep of course

whilst the gatebaster nuke was impressive, I wonder just how much energy it takes to crush a planet sized object into the size of a subatomic singularity?

Ludicrous and it is more a matter of energy density rather than energy itself.

To compress matter into neutronium requires the electron cloud of all the molecules to be stripped or collapsed into the nucleolus, this requires violating pauli exclusion principle which keeps an electron cloud from collapsing. You only see this in neutron stars greater than about ~3 sollar masses at < 20km distance. That is some truely crazy forces.

Now, to compress the neutonium into a point singularity requires some rather crazy abilities.

However, collapsing a stellar body into a blackhole has been done before on Stargate. Mostlikely this is the result of a complex interia manipulation field which alters how the electrons interact and ultimately how the strong nuclear force behaves (or supressing the weak nuclear force + electromagentic, that would do it too).

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2005-08-24 07:21pm

Why isn't "Altairan" spelled like the star "Altair"? Makes most sense to me, I havn't seen anything on Gateworld.