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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon: [QB] OK. For the hell of it I'm gonna run through this slowly in my head. You dial from a gate at point A (lets say Earth). The destination gate (lets say Omicron Persei 8, because it's funny) is 1000 light years away from you, in a different part of the galaxy, moving at a diferent speed and direction to Earth ( don't forget that's in 3 dimensions). Lets say you dial 1-2-3-4-5-6-Å. This corresponds to the rough position in space of Omicron Persei 8 (as we know that the gates don't dial a particular gate, given that the wormhole can jump to another one at the same location). Move on several thousand or even million years. You dial 1-2-3-4-5-6-Å from the Earth gate and nothing happens because Omicron Persei 8 has moved and there is now no gate in the destination address "region". So a weak analogy (in the best Star Trek tradition) would be dialing your Grans phone at her house. Later, your Granny moves house. You dial the old number, you can't get through to her. So the DHD (or whatever) says address 1-2-3-4-5-6-[origin] = Omicron Persei 8, and adjusts the point in space to which this address points. Like Gran making her new phone number the same as her old one in her new house. This to me says one fo two things. Either the DHD knows its dialing Omicron Persei 8 and not the intersecting point of 1-2-3-4-5-6. This means that the reference points (i.e. the symbols on the gate) are simply abstract, rather like individual digits that make up a phone number. I would surmise that if the Antarctca gate is the first ever gate then this makes sense, as they simply decided to use constelations visible from the 1st gates origin as the symbols on the gate. This allows a standardisation of stargates (except for the orgin symbol, which should be unique on each gate), which also makes sense to me. But, the fact stellar drift has an effect on dialing a particular address says to me that 1-2-3-4-5-6-[origin] does not equate to saying "Location of Omicron Persei 8". So I think that means the symbols on the gate reflect non fixed points in space, which the DHDs contiually adjust to take account for stellar drift so you can dial a particular place? Or am I thinking too hard in order to cover the backsides of showrunners who kind of skipped over the workings of the great and mysterious plot device for dramatic/lazy reasons. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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