is one name for a class of Fictional Devices which allow instantaneous travel between places.
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"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/United_States_Air_Force" class="copylinks">United States Air Force discovers how to use one of these devices that was discovered on Earth and begin to explore the galaxy through its use Although Stargates are present on many planets, most of the races they encounter are relatively primitive, and view the gates as no more than divine, sacred or terrifying relics, as evidenced by such names as "Ring of the Gods" and "Circle of Darkness"5 Screenplay 6 Screenplay
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"#ref_10">10 Screenplay 11 Screenplay In the Pegasus galaxy, villagers know them as ''Rings of the Ancestors'' and variations thereof They are also commonly referred to as "the ring", "the Annulus ", or simply "the gate"
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"#ref_12">12 Screenplay Once a destination is selected by the traveler, the Stargate generates a components, and then into energy as they pass through the event horizon, and then travel through a wormhole before being reconstructed on the other side
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"#ref_14">14 Screenplay "seven symbols chosen from a pool of 38 non-repeating candidates, that's about 63 billion possible combinations" By "dialing" these symbols in the correct order, the traveler selects a destination
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"#ref_15">15 Screenplay Such connections, in comparison to seven symbol codes, required substantially more energy to complete a functional wormhole — much more than any standard dialing method can provide Opening an intergalactic wormhole has been shown to require large amounts of power compared to a regular wormhole This has been generated in a variety of ways in different episodes, although the main way is using a Zero Point Module (ZPM)1617 Screenplay 18
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"#ref_22">22 Transcript One of the most basic and repeated axioms of Wormhole Physics, the (fictionalized) field of study pioneered by the character Samantha Carter , is that unless an extraordinary amount of energy is being generated at either end, a wormhole can only be maintained for 38 minutes at a time
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"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Physical_body" class="copylinks">Object passes through the event horizon (the "puddle"), it is not immediately transferred to the destination Stargate, but rather the portion that has passed through is dematerialized and held in a " Hyperspatial Buffer "26 An object that hasn't completely passed through the event horizon may be pulled out again, and its atoms will rematerialise from the buffer as it is extracted The gate does not begin transmitting an object until it has entirely passed through the event horizon This ensures that only complete objects are transferred Objects in the buffer remain in a state of suspension This has been used to "store" people in medical need, but is a dangerous maneuver as when a Stargate is shut down everything still in the buffer "ceases to exist"27 Screenplay Each time the gate is activated the buffer is wiped clean to receive new information28 Screenplay
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"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/kinetic_energy" class="copylinks">Kinetic Energy it had while entering, so a person running into one Stargate will hit the ground running upon emerging from another (Weapon projectiles also maintain their trajectory upon transit- a bullet fired through a Stargate is just as dangerous as it would be otherwise) Also, the transmitting Stargate does not allow the air molecules of the local atmosphere to pass through doing so could be disastrous should a receiving gate be located in a vacuum The show explains that the Stargate differentiates between objects ''attempting'' to pass through the event horizon and things that would naturally exert pressure, such as water, air, lava, etc29 Screenplay
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"#ref_30">30 Screenplay Power can be fed directly into the Naqahdah that comprises the gate power harnessed from lightning strikes has been shown to be sufficient The Stargate that establishes an outgoing wormhole determines how long the wormhole is held open, and can generally close the wormhole at will Under some conditions, a gate only needs enough power to connect briefly, then the receiving gate can provide enough power to maintain the connection31 The same is true if the outgoing gate loses power while transmitting if the incoming gate has a DHD, it will take over powering the gate until reintegration is complete
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"#ref_32">32 Screenplay The stargate originally used in the SGC, found in Giza, was brought to Earth, by Ra, from another planet Since Stargate addresses correspond to planetary locations and not individual gates, the new gate inherited the same address as the one in Antarctica Because the Antarctic gate had been abandoned millennia earlier by the Ancients and no longer had a connected DHD, Ra's gate became the primary
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"#ref_34">34 Screenplay A Stargate has also been seen to continue functioning whilst entering a sun,35 Screenplay though it was protected by a portable forcefield for a portion of its journey In the ''SG-1'' fourth season episode " Chain Reaction ", the SGC sent a Naqahdah -enhanced Nuclear Bomb to a planet whose surface had trace amounts of naquadah in its topsoil the explosion destroyed the entire planet, yet the gate still remained open and intact
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"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Fictional_materials_in_the_Stargate_universe#Naqahdah" class="copylinks">Naqahdah ", an immense Superconductor which is also extremely durable Milky Way Stargates are held to be 64,000 lbs in weight38 Screenplay Part 1 , Screenplay Part 2
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