And either way, it's unlikely Apophis would come through if there was a giant pit, unless Cheyenne/Creek Mountain started posting people down pits.
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Solauren wrote:Actually, we don't know what it did beside scan. For all we know, it just checked for anyone nearby, kind of like a motion sensor.
It can't have done much more then that. Otherwise, it would have detected the humans on the otherside had firearms.
The globe did a pretty thorough scan on the woman iirc, a light passed over her head to toe. The other guys? Not so much.
They also weren't armed at the time of the scan. They grabbed Carbines out of a rack in the room.
The should have at least had their sidearms on them.
In the middle classified section of a base that's already one of more secure air forces bases in the US, was made very clear that the guards were not taking the task of guarding the Stargate very seriously so it's not impossible that they had taken their side arms to be able to sit more comfortbly and to reduce accidents (that's assuming they were issued the first place).
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Even if they took guarding the Stargate seriously, they'd probably be thinking in terms of guarding it from intruders, not in terms of guarding against invaders attacking through the gate. The former is a much more common interpretation of "here, guard this object" in the military, after all.
Especially since they probably didn't know it was a transportation device. Hell, reading between the lines of Hammond and Samuel's discussion about sending a bigger bomb to Abydos, they thought there was only one other gate (Abydos) that had been either destroyed or rendered useless by the nuke. So why bother telling the handful of enlisted grunts guarding it what it is?
For that matter, were they even there specifically to guard it? They were sitting around plying poker, I figured it was somewhere out of the way they used while off-duty.
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Eternal_Freedom wrote:Especially since they probably didn't know it was a transportation device. Hell, reading between the lines of Hammond and Samuel's discussion about sending a bigger bomb to Abydos, they thought there was only one other gate (Abydos) that had been either destroyed or rendered useless by the nuke. So why bother telling the handful of enlisted grunts guarding it what it is?
For that matter, were they even there specifically to guard it? They were sitting around plying poker, I figured it was somewhere out of the way they used while off-duty.
from what I gathered they were either off-duty and in place they shouldn't be or on-duty and doing something they shouldn't be to pass the boredom.
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