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Can we duplicated DHDs? Are DHD's moveable? If SG-1 got stuck on a planet and say the DHD broak (under weapons fire or something) could Earth send them one from storage that they could use?
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MythingLink

Padders asks:
Can we duplicated DHDs? Don't know. I would imagine that someone at the Area 52 site is probably trying to backwards engineer one. It makes sense that if you can figure out how the things works, you might be able to start making your own Stargates.

Are DHD's moveable? Sure, they would have had to move the DHD from the Arctic site and when you see Season 4, you'll get some more info about moving them.

If SG-1 got stuck on a planet and say the DHD broak (under weapons fire or something) could Earth send them one from storage that they could use? I would imagine they could if they had one to send. I don't see a problem with that. We don't know how much they weigh and whether or not the SG team could move it off of the platform to get it out of the way of the backwash, but I would think they'd put it on something like F.R.E.D. so as to make it easy to move. Then, depending on how it actually communicates to the Stargate, they'd have to do whatever to get it to work.

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SGPflughaupt

Does SGC have a DHD, i thought the whole problem originally with the StarGate was there was no DHD with the Giza Gate. I havnt seen most of the eps dealing with the Artic gate so I dont know if it came with one but I the ep Watergate,werent SG-1 suprised to find the Russians with a DHD (taken from the Nazi's at the end of WWII)?
 
MythingLink

The SGC would have the DHD that came with the Arctic Gate. As for the Russians, well it's a spoiler.
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SGPflughaupt

I wasnt aware that they had a DHD from the Artic gate either. I gotta get hold of season 1 and 2 eps,alotta holes in my knowledge leads to alotta holes in my arguements
 
MythingLink

A lotta holes in my knowledge never stopped me from making wild speculations. ;-)
Remember how in Solitudes Carter kept messing around with the DHD in order to try and get her and Jack home? She uncovered it in the ice.

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padders

I am guessing they don't use the DHD because:
1) They are investigating out how it works so they can replace them
2) They don't need to
3) It is more secure not to have one so random people can not just dial out easily.. can't see how you can attach a hand scanner to a DHD !

As for russians, yeah saw that title for one of the series 4 eps.. ekkk hurry up and start Sky 1 !!!!

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SGPflughaupt

Or maybe they dont use the DHD because they lost the postcard to register the product with the Ancients and thereby avoid future ligtigation.
Or more seriously,maybe the SGC continues to use their hardware because unlike the DHD they can collect and analyse data on what is dialed and how it is dialed. They know how their "Macgyvered" unit works so they can easier tell when things occur what is from the dialer and what is from the Stargate. Using a DHD would just add a factor of uncertainty or one more unfamiliar item to have to check and discount when analysing a problem.
 
MythingLink

Add on the fact that they'd have to get rid of all those neat people in the control room if they started using the DHD instead of the computers. <G>
Both of you brought up good points as to why they might not.

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carter

i don't think they can cause you have to remeber each dhd is unique in it's own way as is the stargates like ****spoiler 4 solitudes**** san didn't know they were home caus ehte dhd & gate had a diffrent symbol 4 the point of origin

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carter : )
i might be canadian but i have a point (sometimes)
 
MythingLink

However if they're moving those things around, it doesn't make any difference what that symbol for the PoO is, because it's just that - a symbol. The PoO is where ever the Gate is.
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MythingLink

The DHD in Solitudes wasn't broken. If Sam had tried dialing another world, it would have gotten there. Remember Daniel's comments about dialing your own number and what kind of a signal you get? Also remember Touchstone where they used the DHD to dial up the Stargate in order to get the weather device?
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what he said!
but the PoO does matter if you look @ the movie the symblos were totaly difrent it's like putting mac software into a pc IT'S NON COMPATIBLE!
 
Universal DHDs

The PoO (we`ve gotta find another abbreviation for that) is all different on different planets but the Stargate would simply interpret it as a symbol, an anchor if you will, possibly used to tell the receiving Stargate how far away you are so it knows how much power to use.

No matter what the PoO looked like on the DHD, it would always activate the PoO on the Stargate, even if they looked different.
It`s like changing the H on a keyboard to an A. If you press it, H still appears on the screen even though the button is A.

So if you send the Beta DHD to another planet and hook it upto the Stargate there and you pressed the circle-line glyph, which was used as a point of origin for that gate, you`d still activate the point of origin on the Stargate even if it looks different.

Daniel explained it in Solitudes that even if they two symbols looked different the addresses would both still be the same.

Can anyone find the holes in that explanation?


[Edited by Thor_of_Othalla on 09-23-2000 at 12:25 AM]
 
The PoO and glyph use

Originally posted by carter
what he said!
but the PoO does matter if you look @ the movie the symblos were totaly difrent it's like putting mac software into a pc IT'S NON COMPATIBLE!
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The only reason it mattered what the PoO looked like in the movie was because Daniel hadn`t figured out the system and didn`t know that the point of origin for a planet was simply any symbol you didn`t have on your Stargate.

Although we have seen instances of an alien Stargate using a symbol that is on the Earth Stargate. If this is so then for any planet they go to there are 33 different possibilities for a point of origin (assuming that symbols can`t be used in the address and as a PoO at the same time). Is the PoO always at a certain point on the DHD? Or is there another way of calculating the PoO? What did Daniel use to calculate it in CotG?
 
Gee, very technical (but that's why it's in the 'technical category' right?)

If the DHD's are movable why would they go search for the one at Giza?
What about the cool looking crystals that are part of the DHD? We see them in Deadman's switch? Maybe they are a great power source USA could use to power USA?
 
there were a bit too many questions. If I got it right, there is a power source in the DHD and yes, if we knew how, would be a good power source.
 
I'm sure we will see a future episode with a reference about the power source for the DHD
 
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