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]

Nope. I am 100% un-spoiled and since I don't get the sci-fi channel, that includes teasers. And I appreciate you helping me stay that way.

But, hm, in Fire and Water - did it suck the wreath during Daniels' funeral?

[shutthef-up.livejournal.com]

But, hm, in Fire and Water - did it suck the wreath during Daniels' funeral?

It did, sort of. Jack and Sam placed it on the Event Horizon and then it just sort of sank in from there after they took their hands away. But we didn't get the from-the-side POV that would show us the de-materializing aspect of things.

No problem on the spoilers. I seemed to remember that you were unspoiled.