What happens if the gate is lying on its side?

[webmouse]

Usually the gate is vertical and travellers step through it to wherever. But in a couple of stories the gate has been toppled and lies horizontally.

Just guessing here, but if a traveller were to arrive unwittingly at a toppled gate he would have to climb out VERY QUICKLY or fall back through the EH with very nasty results (one way trip, isn't it?)

Thoughts and theories?

 

[PTeppic]

Depends which way up the gate is!!

Obviously, if it were "face down", the only danger is in how high off the ground it is.

But, as seen in "First Commandment", "Hundred Days" and "2001" they work perfectly horizontally.

"2001" reminds us that entry speed affects exit speed, and position of entry affects position of exit, so jumping feet first into the centre of a horizontal gate will tend to me coming out horizontally feet first - parallel to the ground, fast, at the other end! :blush:

However, "A Hundred Days" points out VERY clearly about the problems of gating to a horizontal gate, face up.

 

[webmouse]

I don't recall Sam ever mentioning that her dialing program can record gate orientation -- good reason for the M.A.L.P. to go first.

But then the SGC must be losing a fortune on unretrievable M.A.L.P.s (not to mention replacing Daniel's glasses on a regular basis ) A beancounter's nightmare . . .

 

[Jedispara]

lol ya, but like any of teh stargates where they jump through the gate you come out teh same way, like in Torment of Tantulus, Daniel and Jack jump throuhg horezontally, and land rather pain fully, also in the stargate where the touchstone is stollen the NID members jump through a hoeizontal gate...

 

[webmouse]

My son has expressed concern that some fool alien will mount the gate on the ceiling -- "ooh, look at the neat chandalier, I found . . . "

 

[Jedispara]

lol...
*the gate opens up and SG1 falls to teh floor 30 feet below*

*Jack after he wakes up* What the hell happened, how did it get up there????

*Daniel* Well good luck getting back with it like that!

 

[PTeppic]

It would be a good security feature: to have a hydraulic (or similar) device move the gate to ceiling mounted when not in use. Any unauthorised travellers go splat. Unless they throw matresses through first

However, this also assumes the gates are being put horizontal deliberately - which as above suggests something: they are not being used by the locals for travel, since any problems it presents for SG-1, it presents for themselves. UNLESS they are non-human physiology. I can quite see the "population" of water world in "Watergate" quite happily using a horizontal gate, or the Mother Nature beings, etc.