No, I am not making this up

[ultranos]

Conversation at lunch today (paraphrased):

"So, if one Stargate was orbiting the planet in space, and the other was on a planet, and you opened a connection, how dead are we?"
"How so?"
"Using the Stargate to limit the flow, how fast will it take to reach equilibrium, between the atmosphere and vacuum? Ignoring bulkheads, doors, corridors, etc under a mountain."
"Well, it'll take time to move the atmosphere from around the planet, and the rate will slow down the thinner the atmosphere gets..."
"Don't forget that, barring being connected to a black hole or having a giant red laser aimed at the Stargate, it closes after 38 minutes."
"So, with boundary conditions of 'the plot', how much dead should we have been?"
"You know, this is actually an easy calculation. I'll get back to you on it."

Comments

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

It could be epic. And fantastic.

unless we assume quantum mechanics is wrong, in which case, ow

I thought so too (with the impossible) and, also, OW!

Exactly about the buffer thing - which really makes the stargate a really fancy long-distance transporter rather than a wormhole, I think, maybe. Errrr

Oh, no, you're not reading the wrong fic. I remember not being very impressed by it. Though I do think it could be done *right*

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Not only would the stargate be a fancy long-distance transporter, but it's also a really fancy long-distance rotary telephone, with a different area code for another galaxy. :P

Done right, that fic could be interesting. I think.

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Except in Pegasus where they have touch tone (digital dialing rather than analog) :P