Look, I'm trying to make sense of 'gateverse tech. Again.

[ultranos]

Okay, LJ hivemind, I've got a 'gateverse question maybe you could help me out on:

Consider ring transports from ship to planet and vice versa. Does this method of transportation from planet to ship require at minimum two people: one to beam up and one at the controls? I know we've seen on the show the reverse can be done with only one person (set it and then dive for the rings). But I can't seem to remember if we've seen one person be able to beam themselves up. (If so, probably via remote control.)

Of course, the absence of this capability would kind of explain the overall superiority of Asgard beaming tech, except I thought the rings were yet another piece of Ancient tech cannibalized by the Goa'uld. I could, of course, be wrong.

(Why, yes, I have nothing better to think about at 9:45AM on a Monday morning right before class.)

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[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

So, this might sound like a stupid question, but does that mean that if there's no recieving set of rings, there are two forms of transport/teleportation going on? One for the rings themselves and one for whatever needs to be transported? And isn't this, um, redundant?

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Yes...it is redundant. I started to confuse myself.

There's the rings that encompass the people/things etc and then they all disappear. But the ring transportation actually are a visible energy beam that can be intercepted. (And you're the science people to know about matter/energy handwavy stuff).

Oh...but wait. Usually you connect to another set of rings, so it's a transfer. Like in the movie when the rings brought the bomb back up, Daniel hopped on them with Shau'ri to transfer back down. So there's an even exchange.

Maybe the rings and the people are always travelling together.

Not sure how that works for short range...I guess if there's no "receiving end", they automatically "retract" back to their starting point? That's why it needs to be short range?

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

No receiving end does force the short-range issue and does make your conjecture make sense.

Oh man, the science behind the matter/energy handwavy stuff? You really, really don't want to think about that too hard. (the energy cost! ARGH!)

I think we've seen the transfer in the series too. So, maybe the rings just take all matter within their volume and transfer it. Meaning they just swap between "empty" air and a person, so it just looks like a one-way transfer.

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Works for me! :-D