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."

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[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

How does radiation poisoning work? Because if the atoms get irradiated, then maybe the 'gate tries to reassemble with the "wrong" isotopes? (If I'm remembering it correctly, when irradiated, the atom loses an alpha particle. Which I think changes the isotope, but it's been awhile since I had to pay attention to radiation.) If the 'gate is reading the irradiated atoms when it saves your state when you go through, it, theoretically, should reassemble you with the irradiated atoms. Uh, somehow.