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]

But was the laser going through the 'gate or lending power to the super conductor of the 'gate itself? But we did see Sam shoot particles - I'm more and more convinced that momentum vectors are at play here.
(and, hm, radio waves (at least certain frequencies) can pass both directions where matter can't. I wonder what else can go both ways?)

Acting like a thin membrane makes sense to me - calculate purposeful impact versus Brownian motion - though then more would get through on a windy day? And temperature wasn't about differences, was it? But more just a by-product of the re-animation process?

I'm kinda glad they conserve momentum :)

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

I thought it was going through the gate, but I could be wrong. In any case, I'm starting to agree with you on it being related to momentum vectors. (I am nowhere near good enough at quantum physics to figure out what else acts like radio waves, although I suspect something at the extremes of the EM spectrum. As in, it either needs to be very high frequency or very long wavelength.)

Okay, so maybe the frosted look wasn't about the temperature differences. My brain is just stuck on that track right now. Because it happened when the pressure on the other side wasn't (apparently) that different from Earth's.

I'm also glad they conserve momentum. :)

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Yep - it's gotta be about momentum and total force and vectors and ...something...to do with magnets.

I kinda thought the handwave was that the frosted look (and vomiting) was because they didn't have the Earth 'gate tweaked quite right (with no DHD) and Sam didn't like throwing up or having frostbite on her nose so she fixed it (ie: it would get really old doing that EVERY episode)

Do you think their ears pop?

That should be a t-shirt or something - "I'm glad they conserve momentum" :)

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Of course. It's always magnets.

Okay, I can believe the rough ride was due to the lack of a DHD. And Sam fixing it because it was an unacceptable, uh, feature of the Earth's 'gate.

I don't know if their ears pop. Ears popping is generally due to pressure differentials. So if the pressure on the other side is the same, I don't think their ears necessarily have to pop.

I would totally buy that t-shirt.