(Though just once I'd like to encounter a gate that had been sealed from the other end with planks of wood or drywall or some crude barrier with lots of "Go Away" signs on it.)

I want to see the thing as a tourist attraction sometime. I mean, come on! There's this big ring sitting in the middle of a field, and no one's treating it like Stonehenge?

I thought that only kicked in if the other gate itself was damaged.

Or if it's buried, I think. Basically, if there isn't room for the big "whoosh" thing, maybe? But also (for the lying flat thing) that's what the MALP's for.

Besides, I didn't think the gates got damaged.

I think the big bloopy wave from the gate destroys anything it touches.

Wasn't that used in an ep once, when they sent Teal'c underground?

Wasn't that used in an ep once, when they sent Teal'c underground?

Yeah. "100 Days", wherein Jack got trapped on an alien world and nearly married, but pretty much said "See ya!" as soon as it was possible for him to leave.

I think the bloopy wave did away with some stuff (or maybe melted it) and didn't Sam build a particle beam emitter or something like that to melt a big enough space for Teal'c?

I want to see the thing as a tourist attraction sometime. I mean, come on! There's this big ring sitting in the middle of a field, and no one's treating it like Stonehenge?

Wrod. Can you imagine the diplomatic disaster if the big bloopy wave took out a kindergarten field trip?

I mean, come on! There's this big ring sitting in the middle of a field, and no one's treating it like Stonehenge?

Katie, that is such a plot bunny.

I assign it to you. Go forth and be funny.

Wrod. Can you imagine the diplomatic disaster if the big bloopy wave took out a kindergarten field trip?

There's actually a piece of fanfic out there that does this. I don't recall liking it very much, though, as I'm pretty sure it was just used as a way to make Daniel wallow and feel bad. (I'm not immune to that sort of story, but this wasn't a particularly good example of the genre.)

I assign it to you. Go forth and be funny.

Heh. Well, maybe. Funny is haaaaaaard, though.

I thought that only kicked in if the other gate itself was damaged.

Isn't the gate material all but indestructible? I recall the episode where they linked to a world that had just been hit by a kernel black hole, and the gravity transmitted through the gate was enough to crumple the titanium iris with tidal forces and generate a very pronounced relativistic time dilation effect.

Yup. That's the episode I always think is 'Singularity' but in fact it isn't. And Sam wasn't sure that a naquada-enhanced nuclear blast would destroy the gate.

I remember that one of the go'auld (Apophis? Anubis?) did something that supercharged the SG-1 gate and made it explode in a potentially earth-destroying blast, but my impression was he'd had to pump it full of nearly its own rest mass again in energy before it reached the limit and went POW!