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til stargate connections are one way. (piefed.social)
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So. I never watched the show in order until recently. Im on the late season 2 episode with the wormhole and I think I was scratching my head before with some other episodes as I thought it was two way. That episode finally made it clear it was one way. Also will add a mildly infuriating but do a community search for stargate does not bring up this community.

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[–] 18 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

The connection does allow radio frequencies to travel in both directions. If I remember correctly. So it's one-way for travel, two-way for communication.

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  • [–] 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 child)

    And fluids, like water and air(?), don't come through by themselves, if the gate is inside a large body of that fluid. If it's a stream of grain or soup, it does go through though. Oh, and gravity can come through.

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  • [–] 6 points 14 hours ago

    It makes a lot more sense when you learn that the rippling puddle effect isn't actually the wormhole itself. The wormhole is microscopic, the Stargate is more like a transporter pad that breaks you down and squirts you through it to reassemble on the other side. So there's actually an Ancient computer doing all the work, and it can "decide" how some of those rules work in an arbitrary manner.

    Which does make me wonder why the heck the Ancients designed the Stargate to disassemble stuff that enters the puddle in a situation where it's got nowhere to send it. I guess that was all long before OSHA.

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