We all like Stargate.

[conuly]

We all would like to have a functioning Stargate network. I mean, even if we couldn't traverse the stars, having them set up worldwide would revolutionize travel, and arguably be more useful to the average Joe. (Especially if they take less energy than current travel options. How much energy does it take to run the Stargate, anyway? I never see them quibbling over travel costs. "Sorry, guys, our electric bill was through the roof last month. Either we cut off-world trips down to a minimum, or we take out half the lightbulbs in the building. Your choice.")

But... different planets rotate at different speeds, don't they? Even if you're self-selecting for "places comfortable for human societies", there's a difference. There's a difference in rotation speed between Miami and Denver too, I bet. Isn't there? Like the outside of a bike wheel is moving faster than the inside, so Denver is moving faster than Miami? Wouldn't you stumble? Wouldn't everybody stumble stepping through a Stargate?

These are the sorts of questions that keep me up at night.

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Comments

[alessandriana]

This makes me wonder, with multiple gates on one planet, how they made sure they were dialing the right gate on the way home. I can't remember if the series ever addressed that.

[glinda]

From memory I think most planets only have one gate for that reason. Earth only had two because it’s original gate was in Antarctica and got overrun by ice so it became inactive. (There’s an episode in the first series where something causes the wormhole to disengage early - maybe the source gate is attacked? - while part of the team are still in transit, so the wormhole hops to the nearest gate and they get spat out in Antarctica. They manage to get the DHD reconnected but can’t dial home because both gates have the same point of origin, unbeknownst to them, they’re dialling their own number effectively.) Therefore it’s probably the DHD being connected to the gate that controls whether that gate is the primary gate for dialling in, in the rare case of multiple gates on one planet. I think that’s why the Russian team were able to get away with their adventures for so long because they had the DHD so they could make their gate dominant at specific times, it wasn’t until their connection got stuck, that they were discovered because SGC offworld teams couldn’t dial home anymore as earth was already ‘engaged’. To extend the telephone metaphor, like having a parti line and the person upstairs leaving the phone off the hook.

In order to intentionally have multiple gates Co-functioning on one planet you’d have to find a way to give them different points of origin- maybe however they managed gates on ships? (I seem to recall most incidences of second gates in the show turned out to be SURPRISE giant space ships...) I don’t know that they ever explored that - I guess they must have done in Atlantis but as I haven’t really watched the spin-off shows I don’t know...