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True. The "intergalactic void" is hardly empty, after all - there are lots of mostly older stars there that can have planets orbiting them. Who knows if the Ancients ever bothered exploring them or seeding them with stargates or humans.
I'm still wondering why the midway station is indeed midway. If the idea is to physically emerge, then walk into a gate in the other system, why put it so far away from help? Why not have 33 gates in the void from one system, and just one from the other? Maybe the forwarding macro can only work on so many gates?
quote:Also : why do they need a station, anyway? Are we to assume that a Milky Way gate always needs extra power to connect to a Pegasus gate, even if they are only a few meters away from each other?
I'm guessing it's because of the ad hoc nature of the bridge... in order to dial Pegasus, you need to have lots and lots of power, even if the gate is really close. Kinda like having to dial an area code to call your neighbor down the street.
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I was thinking that the reason they created the station was that without that extra control crystal, the two gate systems are incompatible. So you put a Pegasus gate and a Milky Way gate close together to bridge the gap, so to speak, without having to connect the two systems.
As for towing the ship, I meant that the Daedalus doesn't exactly have a big trailer hitch back there (or tow cables, or tractor beams...).
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Also, the Aurora is monstrous compared to the Daedalus...
Ooh, I've got an idea, if the Lanteans don't actually have a ZPM factory that the team never discovered. If any Lanteans manage to survive the Asuran takeover, Weir should sweet-talk one of them into going out to yell at those nutcases with the "New Brotherhood" and get them to turn over their ZPM.
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I'm not claiming it makes sense for them to tow the ship; that's just the impression that I got from the episode, but apparently that wasn't the case.
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Also, Mark, while stars do get ejected from galaxies from time to time, my uneducated guess is that this involves gravitational forces which are not particularly kind to any associated bodies. Or are you talking about things like halo stars or globular clusters? (Or perhaps something else. My astronomy knowledge is mostly from thumbing through magazines at the bookstore before I go to look at comics.)
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Usually when stars are ejected from galaxies, it's because a) there isn't ENOUGH gravitational force to keep them orbiting the galaxy's core, or b) they were forced out by a galactic event like two galaxies colliding. Either way, the process takes hundred of millions of years to happen. Planets involved would be more worried about massive radiation from passing stars, etc. Those spun out of a galaxy would likely continue orbiting around their star until that star ran out. Then of course there would be the aforementioned clusters, plus stars which could form spontaneously in the void (not as "fast" as galactic stars, but it would still happen). Etc., etc...
In any case, the time factor involved is too long for even the Ancients to worry about it.
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It's all relative, I guess. Our Sun is orbiting the galactic center at just shy of half a million miles an hour. Just 50% more will get us out of the Milky Way, according to Google. Regardless, we're not exactly hanging on for dear life while the Sun continues speeding along as it has been doing for five billion years.
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I'm not sure I follow. The sun isn't really dragging us along in its orbit through the galaxy. All our bits, and the sun's, were already moving at that velocity. Changing that would require some major gravitational pulls that would presumably do interesting (if not catastrophic) things to local orbits.
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Perhaps, but considering how massive Sol is (don't worry, I mean the star ) relative to most of its planets, I'd guess that any orbital changes would be balanced out. After all, unless the object causing the acceleration actually passed inside the radius of the system itself, it'd be too far away to affect Earth-like separately from the star itself.
Anyone ever heard of simulations being run on such an event? I know that some people were madly speculating about a hypothetical nearby star called "Nemesis," but even that wasn't likely to cause major danger.
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(I realize it is provincial of me, but extinction level events seem worthy of the appellation major when the extinction involves me and/or my genus. That it is unlikely to exist is of some comfort.)
But, anyway, like, I did link to the case where stellar ejection involved tearing a binary system in half.
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) relative to most of its planets, I'd guess that any orbital changes would be balanced out. After all, unless the object causing the acceleration actually passed inside the radius of the system itself, it'd be too far away to affect Earth-like separately from the star itself.
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