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I rather think the research team thought the device would take their test pilot to outer space. Or some similarly hostile environment, at any rate. A diving suit would have been the state of the art EVA gear of the time, no matter what the environment. (Yeah, I know they tested aviator pressure suits in the 1930s already - but those would be even more difficult to find than diving suits.)
Here's a possibility: Ernest removed his helmet by some sort of an accident (panic attack?) while in the wormhole. He and his suit then made it through, the helmet and the attached hose did not. Then the wormhole shut down due to insufficient power (or the Gate mechanism decided the helmet was just leftovers, contaminants, whatever, not a traveler), and the helmet and the stretch of hose that was inside were annihilated. We never did see the helmet in the Library, now did we?
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Um. Yah. They used it to attract the lighting.
At least that's what I remember.
Maybe when Ernest got to the other side, whatever motion he made backed the hose into the event horizon, vaporizing part of it and severing the connection. Though, that would imply that Ernest made it to the other side before the entire hose had gone through.
I don't know... I'd rather just believe that the Gate can distinguish between large, singular objects and trailing objects.
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Hey, I didn't build the things, I just use them.
Though, come to think of it, wouldn't that be the ultimate modeling job? Building a Stargate in your back yard. Non-functional of course. You'd be the neighborhood uberGeek. It'd be awesome.
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Perhaps some sort of odd traction in the wormhole caused the (shoddily manufactured?) hose to pop loose from the helmet. Then the suit and Ernest would have become a separate object from the hose and made it through.
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BTW, have we seen any other instances of someone backing out of an open gate before they go all the way through? I know O'Neill held a gate open with a pistol before, but that was on the receiving end.
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In the movie - Daniel sticks his head in and we see that cool effect - pulls it out again - then goes fully through.
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Not his head; just his hands. In "The Enemy Within", Teal'c and Kawalsky fight in front of an open wormhole, and they dip in and out of it several times before O'Neil closes the gate with Kawalsky's head partially inside. Slice!
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I remain an advocate of dumb gates. I prefer to think of the gates as mysteriously complex and powerful, but ultimately having very limited knowledge about what it is they are passing through them and which direction. Because deciding what is and isn't a complete object would clearly be such a messy problem. Not to mention a profoundly boring story consideration. (See above: my inanely rambling scenarios.) I mean, have you actually read the convoluted rationalizations above about what may have happened to Ernest's airhose? Can't we just not go there. Can't it just be magic and perhaps inexplicable. I really don't want 'transporter accident' eps for Stargate.
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I think for the movie scene with ol' Danny boy, he sticks his hand in and brings it out. Since his whole body didn't step in yet his hand didn't reappear on the other side. When he sticks his face in, it appears normal for a second, he opens his eyes and it warp stretches forward. Although I seem to recall a time or two when someone already fully into the gate grabbed another person on the other side.
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They're pretty consistent about the one-way nature of the gate. However, there may be an instance in a dream where someone reaached out from a wormhole event horizon to grab someone else. Maybe that episode where Daniel got infected with Machello's little slugs?
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