The glyph constellations are only visible from Earth? Right?

[x5-654]

OK, knowing my brain, wrong section.

But do the different gates have all different glyphs?

I think the Abydos gate in the film did, although I'm not sure.

But if they do, wouldn't the constelations only be viewed right from Earth?

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wouldn't that mean the gate builders based them on a view from Earth, as if the Gate builders really did come from earth *on 4th ep S6*
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Am I makin sense?

-x5-456

 

[webmouse]

Well, no matter where SG1 goes they find the glyphs for home on the local DHD. I don't know if that helps.

I think it would technologically awkward (not to mention a bitch for the writers) if each DHD was configured differently.

 

[skoon]

perhaps our good old philosophers weren't so battey, maybe Earth IS the centre of the univers...

 

[PTeppic]

Yes, questions like this are normally directed towards the "Stargate Technical" forum, but...

Within the SG-1 series, they do seem to stick to the same glyphs on non-Earth gates as those appearing on Earth's. There is the odd extra glyph, but they are few and far between - e.g. The Gamekeeper, Earth's second gate, etc.

Only using one small alphabet of glyphs (e.g. those on the Earth gate) means that all addresses should be dialable from all other gates. The converse would be that if a large selection of glyphs were possible, from which 39 were used on a planet's gate, many addresses would not be able to be dialled from that gate.

More interesting than that all the glyphs shown on the gates around the galaxy are all visible from Earth, is that all are shown as they appear in the northern sky in the 20th century AD. Over a couple of millenia, the patterns of stars in "constellations" would change... so why pick our "current" patterns?

Finally, the glyphs were implicitly mostly different on the Abydos gate in the film - in the series they are not: one for the "ignore the differences" category.