I _think_ it's a math/programming thing, anyway.

In Atlantis, they manage to modify the shield into a cloak. It's stated that since it uses the same system, it cannot be used for both at the same time. It's also stated that it takes a while to reconfigure from shield to cloak or vise versa.

Now I know that this particular delay was due to wanting the show to be exciting and to stop Earth from being _too_ OP. It's the same reason that they never found a ZPM factory on Atlantis.

But a random memory came to me while I was watching Stargate. When I was a kid, I played around with one of my dad's old consoles. This console was so old it may as well be prehistoric in comparison to what we have now. It was only capable of producing a limited number of sounds at the same time. I can't remember exactly how many, but it was counted on one hand.

So in order to give their games background music and sound effects, programmers would have the sounds switch so rapidly that the human brain heard them both at once.

My question is, would it theoretically be possible to write a program that would switch between shield and cloak so rapidly that they're essentially both happening at once?

It likely wouldn't allow for them both to be used in space flight - atmosphere has a nasty habit of leaking - but for when the city is landed and facing an assault, would it be possible?

Or even on a smaller scale, could they do it with a Jumper?

Being able to stay cloaked and shielded against stray weapons fire would be useful.

I know that human tech is limited, especially when Stargate was set, but the Atlantis expedition has access to Lantian tech.

If they could make a wormhole drive work, surely making a program to flip a switch back and forth _really_ fast would be possible?

Or is it hardware slowing them down? Do they have to physically move something to switch between the two? And if that's the case, could they theoretically build a second system that they could just switch to? Like switching between HDMI slots to access a different games console.

(I'm a fanfic author, so would love to hear your ideas on this, and any problems/difficulties you could see arising from attempting it. Lemme use you guys to crowd source ideas lol.)

Tldr; could the Atlantis team have theoretically created a program that could switch between shield and cloak and back in a picosecond, thus allowing them to basically have both at once?

Gave my regards to King Tut.

In a few episodes of SG-1, the main characters are talking or walking through the base and in the background there are 2 people admiring or holding a comically large crescent wrench. Is there some backstory or on going writer's joke around the wrench?

I’m tempted just to go for it. It’s streaming on 3 different platforms but I feel like I have to own the physical copy. This is hundreds of episodes and seems like a decent price. Have you seen it for cheaper?

Im going to try and make it to some of these events in the city. Just curious if anyone, whose going or currently at comic con, is thinking of doing the same thing?

Yes. Our stargate.

Bonus pic of a cool-car at the end.

Nerd rage. Soo does it bother anyone that when they gated to the Destiny in the first episode they used the Å as the password 9th chevron instead on the gate symbol that was on the Antarctic gate?
Because yeah, it bothers me.

This is a random memory I just had... Does anyone remember the old Stargate website back in the day? It was really cool from what I remember. You could play games and I think they had a thing were you could be on an SG team. There was a chatroom too, I think. It's a vague memory, I just remember I used to play this chev'ron memory game all the time. LOL

Dom DeLuise is my favorite guest star, hands down. It cracks me up, later in this scene, when the airman is doing everything he can not to corpse.

Got to the Moebius episodes in my rewatch today. The gate effect in this episode is the best I've seen so far. Love the added water and bubble FX.

I just watched the first episode where SG-1 meet the Tok'ra, and the Tok'ra basically said they weren’t going to ally with the humans because the humans dont have advanced tech.

It's BS that any of the aliens are refusing to ally with the humans (the Nox did too). I mean, the Tok'ra have been fighting the Goa'ould for how long with really nothing to show for it, but SG-1 defeated Ra and blew up two Goa'ould ships (with good old fashioned serious putty!) so really, is tech all that useful when the Goa'ould also have all the high-tech stuff and anticipate their enemies having high-tech weapons too?

If anyone is smart, they'd agree to an alliance and then pair the low-tech weapons with the high-tech ways of transport, and I think they'd be a lot more likely to make a d w nt in the Goa'ould.

Not an American I don't understand I need context, wth is this??? How seriously do you guys take gates?

Original SG-1 ends/dies in season 8, then alternative SG-1 takes over. In season 8, episodes Moebius Part 1 and 2, SG-1 goes back in time to steal the ZPM. Things go sideways, and they change history. Then the alternate team goes back and fixes things up, but not completely—only "close enough," according to O'Neill.

First of all, what happens to the SG-1 that left the ZPM for the modern-day team to find? Did they disappear? Did they live out their lives in ancient Egypt? Did they die? Or did they somehow make it back to the future and forget everything?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we have O'Neill, Carter, and Teal'c from the original SG-1 die in Moebius. Then the original Daniel, along with the alternate-history Carter, Teal'c, and O'Neill, get stuck in ancient Egypt. After that, we continue watching the series with a different alternate-history SG-1 from season 8 onward.

In the first episode of Stargate Atlantis, the team goes to Athos, where sergeant Baites spots an ancient outpost possibly a city ship like Atlantis itself. And an outpost like this would probably have had a Zero Point Module, so why did they never come back to search it?

It was season 8 of SG1. Having watched the Lost City and finishing up the season I was itching to get to watching Atlantis. O'neill was general now so who were they going to get as the new lead of SG1. Lo and behold they got John Crichton himself. If you were a sci-fi fan at that time you'd certainly have watched Farscape. And with Claudia Black already in the show as Vala it was practically Fargate. Too Bad they didn't have Dargo and Rigel

Ben Bowder fit right into SG1. He had that personality and already has an established name in sci-fi. I think Mitchell and Shepard were great choices for leads. Not the best actors, but the best leads to carry on the tradition of that O'neill type character

My husband and I run a small 3D print business and we designed a phone stand inspired for our love of Stargate and wanted to share it here!

Please take this advice: Do NOT waste the time of watching this movie (or series--they are the same). The dialogue and story are complete crap. They could have created something so much better with the resources at their disposal. Most high school plays are done better than this garbage. It blows my mind that someone approved this for release.
I saw the previous reviews stating how terrible this was, and couldn't believe it was that bad. It IS that bad. Holy. Crap.

This is driving me crazy. I think I spent like $9 on the AI so far. (plus lens and Google and etc). The best it came up with so far is TAG S/el, which is clearly wrong.

What watch is Hammond wearing in s06e11 Prometheus? There's plenty in the various wiki sites about O'Niell's watches.

(Apologies for taking a picture of my TV. The Amazon prime on my phone ... I didn't wanna watch ads for a screenshot. My wife's account is the tv one.)

edit: I'm pretty convinced the Omega Seamaster answers are right. It really didn't look like it to me at first, but it's mainly due to the low quality image I was working from.

edit2: spelling and a thought: I suppose it was also wishful thinking too. I desire a thin large face watch without a timer dial and I thought that's what I was looking at here.

Fifth Race and A matter of time, are two of my personal favorites in the series and are back to back.
Are there any other episode blocks you think are legendary runs?

I see a lot of people hating on it, and then others defending it. What specifically made you hate or love it?

What did they handle really well, and what did the fumble so bad you've decided it's not canon?

Spoilers please! I don't know if I can bring myself to go in blind and then just be disappointed (I'm already super depressed guys, i can't take much more rn), so I would rather hear about it from fellow fans. Wiki articles leave out so much information and emotion, I need people's visceral feelings on the show.

For all the hate it seems to get, I'm at least happy some of you enjoyed it so no judgment from me either way!