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]

Hee :)
(and now I'm nostalgic for my college cafeteria)

Actually, I wonder if Stargate's don't have some form of shield preventing individual molecules from going through - since air alone isn't enough to keep a 'gate open if nothing larger goes through - and they don't worry about exchanging air with other planets (because, really, otherwise airborne bacteria or viruses or, heck, pollen could become a big problem). So maybe we're safe from that?

[shutthef-up.livejournal.com]

Um, trying to be thinky here - waaaaay past my college years and physics wasn't my best subject anyway.

In Watergate, Sam theorized that the gate had some mechanism to keep the water from one planet (the gate was submerged) from flowing through the wormhole when the gate was open. Some level of basic resistance to matter going through. (perhaps molecule size??? no idea).

Anyway, if it can keep fluids from flooding through the gate, but not particles from a particle beam weapon, perhaps there's some minimum particle/molecule size that cannot pass through the event horizon individually.

Cripes, you actually made me think...

[beanpot.livejournal.com]

I have no earthly idea what you guys are talking about in science terms, but I do so love watching you all flesh it out.

That is all.

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

It's all because of magnets.

*nods knowingly and wanders back to the English majors section*