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I realised today something that happened in stargate SG-1, it was the following thought;
In the episode serpent's grasp, when the hatak enters hyperspace carter remarks on the use of forcefields as teal'c explains that there is no transparent material that can withstand that velocity, HOWEVER the F-302 can enter a hyperspace window with only a GLASS cockpit, WTF?
Thoughts?

That's a very good point. Nothing was ever said about the F-302's having any sort of force fields. It must be that fantasy physics that also strangely makes it so that everybody across the Galaxy speaks English. )(Except for the Unas. Poor Unas.)

warpcrafter wrote:That's a very good point. Nothing was ever said about the F-302's having any sort of force fields. It must be that fantasy physics that also strangely makes it so that everybody across the Galaxy speaks English. )(Except for the Unas. Poor Unas.)

Three English-speaking galaxies by my last count.

Who cares? It's sci-fi. You can get away with anything.

Besides, it has MacGyver in it. You know he can do crazy magic gak.

When they go out of phase they can go through walls and junk but dont fall through the floor...


Anyone else hate Ryak?

To be fair:

The F-302 uses a different "method" of hyperspace, generating stable, short hops rather than lengthy, fast-moving trips.

Or from what I remember they do. It's explained later on in better detail, but because of the Naquadrea rather than plain Naquada, it functions differently.

warpcrafter wrote:That's a very good point. Nothing was ever said about the F-302's having any sort of force fields. It must be that fantasy physics that also strangely makes it so that everybody across the Galaxy speaks English. )(Except for the Unas. Poor Unas.)

They did play around with language in the early episodes. I think that was Daniel Jackson's orginal role. But like most sci-fi after no more than dozen episodes they got sick of saying 'this sounds similar to an ancient Incan dialect' and then becoming fluent five minutes later, so instead everyone speaks English.

sebster wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:That's a very good point. Nothing was ever said about the F-302's having any sort of force fields. It must be that fantasy physics that also strangely makes it so that everybody across the Galaxy speaks English. )(Except for the Unas. Poor Unas.)

They did play around with language in the early episodes. I think that was Daniel Jackson's orginal role. But like most sci-fi after no more than dozen episodes they got sick of saying 'this sounds similar to an ancient Incan dialect' and then becoming fluent five minutes later, so instead everyone speaks English.

Yeah, that would have gotten pretty repetitive after awhile. Still, I like how they got around it in the Star Trek series better.

How about the military recruiting a fat slobby slacker to do beyond complex math on a secret space station because he found the secret level in a PC game?

I like the new show, I just didn't like how they introduced buddy's character...not that the rest isn't far-fetched.

warpcrafter wrote:Yeah, that would have gotten pretty repetitive after awhile. Still, I like how they got around it in the Star Trek series better.

Yeah, I think they figured out pretty early on that they should just let it go.

Star Trek did handwave it away nicely, but it didn't stop them from going back and making the same mistake with Enterprise. The Asian girl who’s name I can’t remember had the same job, but they quickly announced the invention of universal translators.

also in SGA how is it that when the asurans take over atlantis, and sheppard's team along with weir and the doctor (damn forgot his name) and the asurans detect them how come they were able to
a) use the control chair to control drones
b) how did their jumper's shields not get ignored by the drones? (the drones have their own shields which they use to 'bore' through for those that didn't know)

For starters, velocity is irrelevant when it comes to withstanding things. The problem is inertia, the material either can't withstand the acceleration (if different parts of it are accelerated at slightly different rates) or the impact of something moving towards it at high speed. Granted, the glass might not withstand impacts with scattered molecules at extremely high speeds, but once again it's not the speed itself that's problem.

Inertial dampeners answers the original question quite nicely. You don't feel the acceleration, and if something hits you the part of your dampening field that extends beyond your ship negates the inertia of the impacting object.

My favourite bit about the Stargate universe is how all the alien races have so very awkward weapons. Staffs that shoot lazor beams etc.

That's covered too, in Season 9 I think.

Jaffa Staff Weapons are more about terror than accuracy etc. The wounds they leave are messy, maiming those they don't kill out right. Plus if something is more physics and chemistry based (projectile weapons) they'd seem somehow less 'Godlike' thus undermining the Goa'uld's claim to be Gods.

In the film 'Evil' James Spader doesn't do anything evil. Lolwut!?!

How in Stargate Universe they...

Well, they haven't done anything bad yet there I guess.

lord_blackfang wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:That's a very good point. Nothing was ever said about the F-302's having any sort of force fields. It must be that fantasy physics that also strangely makes it so that everybody across the Galaxy speaks English. )(Except for the Unas. Poor Unas.)

Three English-speaking galaxies by my last count.

All of them inhabited by Ancients or allies thereof. And as is shown later, like Basic From Star Wars, despite having an entirely different written form, spoken Ancient sounds remarkably like English.

I kinda like the new show. Was never into Atlantis, and SG1 was just something to watch before BSG.

I wonder if Colonel La Bamba is upset that he

Necros wrote:I kinda like the new show. Was never into Atlantis, and SG1 was just something to watch before BSG.

I wonder if Colonel La Bamba is upset that he

Spoiler:

woke up suddenly, "havin relations" with some strange chick

I think Colonel Lou Diamond Philips is