Gate address?

[Snick27]

With Atlantis gate being on earth i was wondering something.
To dail earth from some other stargate what gate address would you use? Would you use the Atantis one or the regular earth one?

If im right here that the Stargate address is like a phone number that can be moved around to anywhere as long as its updated to other stargates. So hence it keeps that address.

I woke up thinking this today.

 

[Captain Shaw]

I think its the same address because Earth is still in the same place, but I think the Atlantis gate would override the earth gate so you would come thought the Atlantis gate.

 

[Snick27]

I think its the same address because Earth is still in the same place, but I think the Atlantis gate would override the earth gate so you would come thought the Atlantis gate.

So in theory either gate address would work?

 

[bullethead]

I think its the same address because Earth is still in the same place, but I think the Atlantis gate would override the earth gate so you would come thought the Atlantis gate.

So in theory either gate address would work?

No, only Earth's gate address would work, since the Atlantis gate address is designed for use by Pegasus gates. The Atlantis DHD has more advanced firmware, so it takes priority for incoming wormholes over a standard Milky Way gate.

 

[PsychoPere]

The gate address is based on the location of the world. The Atlantis gate address would still be tied to the second Atlantean world in the Pegasus Galaxy, but of course it would not connect since there is no longer a Stargate on that world. To dial into the Atlantis gate itself, one would now have to use Earth's gate address because the gate is located on Earth. Since it's also based on more advanced technology than the gate that SGC has been using, the gate in Atlantis would currently override the SGC gate. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if McKay and Carter would be able to find a way to reprogram the Atlantis gate to "bounce" (or just ignore, perhaps) an incoming wormhole to SGC instead.

 

[David cgc]

Unless they decided to mothball the Giza Gate and transfer the SGC to Atlantis.

I like to imagine that, once it was taken to the Milky Way, the digital glyphs on the Atlantis gate and DHD reset to the Milky Way glyphs (and, in a delightful display of advanced technology, the DHD grows three extra buttons). I meant to make digital versions of the Milky Way symbols for my Pegasus stargate model, but I never got around to it.

 

[Brent]

I see no reason why they couldn't reprogram the DHD to accept the gate address from both the Giza gate glyphs everyone is use to plus the original Alteran address for Earth we saw way back in that frozen episode when they discovered the original gate and dhd.

Its really starting to all get confusing.

 

[David cgc]

It's the same address, the only thing different about the Antarctic gate is the origin symbol, and that's just cosmetic.

 

[Gepard]

(and, in a delightful display of advanced technology, the DHD grows three extra buttons).

Ah, but where would there be three extra glyphs on the Atlantis gate?

 

[TemporalFlux]

(and, in a delightful display of advanced technology, the DHD grows three extra buttons)

To gain access to the other symbols, aren't they supposed to just hold down the Shift key?

 

[David cgc]

(and, in a delightful display of advanced technology, the DHD grows three extra buttons).

Ah, but where would there be three extra glyphs on the Atlantis gate?

That's the fun of it. It's digital. It doesn't need to show them on the full wheel when it's idle or incoming, and they can just appear same as any other when they're spinning into place while dialing. Take off the three from the bottom, opposite the origin symbol. They're always under the floor anyway, no one will miss 'em.

 

[bullethead]

(and, in a delightful display of advanced technology, the DHD grows three extra buttons).

Ah, but where would there be three extra glyphs on the Atlantis gate?

That's the fun of it. It's digital. It doesn't need to show them on the full wheel when it's idle or incoming, and they can just appear same as any other when they're spinning into place while dialing. Take off the three from the bottom, opposite the origin symbol. They're always under the floor anyway, no one will miss 'em.

It may be a digital gate, but the symbols can't change at all. The glyphs are all LEDs sticking out of holes in the front plates of the gate

 

[BenRoethig]

Unless they decided to mothball the Giza Gate and transfer the SGC to Atlantis.

Which, by the way, is way is one of a million reasons why neither the military or the IOA would let Atlantis leave earth.

 

[David cgc]

It may be a digital gate, but the symbols can't change at all. The glyphs are all LEDs sticking out of holes in the front plates of the gate

Sort of. They also have a front projection rig for the prop that they use for dialing out (you can see the symbols on top of the chevrons if you look closely, giving away the trick, though they've been known to paint that out in the close-ups). If they weren't going to show it a lot, they could probably use the projector rather than CG-ing it or rebuilding the prop. And, of course, the "real" gate probably has something more sophisticated than tiny lightbulbs making the glyphs appear.

Of course, it's also been quite a while since they demonstrated interest in glyph-related mythology (the last unique point-of-origin we saw was in "Gamekeeper" and that was, what, season 3? 4?), so they probably wouldn't bother.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Unless they decided to mothball the Giza Gate and transfer the SGC to Atlantis.

Which, by the way, is way is one of a million reasons why neither the military or the IOA would let Atlantis leave earth.

Two other reasons are

1) Jumpers would be nice thing for SG teams to have.

2) With the chair gone Atlantis is the only defense Earth has now.

 

[bullethead]

2) With the chair gone Atlantis is the only defense Earth has now.

Nope, they still have that Arthur's Mantle phase cloak thing. All they have to do is hook it up to the ZPM in Antarctica and they can make the planet impervious to any attack from non-phased enemies at will.

 

[David cgc]

Unless they decided to mothball the Giza Gate and transfer the SGC to Atlantis.

Which, by the way, is way is one of a million reasons why neither the military or the IOA would let Atlantis leave earth.

Two other reasons are

1) Jumpers would be nice thing for SG teams to have.

The SGC has a Jumper hangar. They used it in "The Return." Atlantis could ship home any of the extras they've found in disused bays, abandoned starships, other cities, and the like (they had about thirty in the season 4 premiere, didn't they? They could spare a couple, and probably did). If worse came to worse, they could even use the one with the time machine.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

2) With the chair gone Atlantis is the only defense Earth has now.

Nope, they still have that Arthur's Mantle phase cloak thing. All they have to do is hook it up to the ZPM in Antarctica and they can make the planet impervious to any attack from non-phased enemies at will.

I though the ZPM hooked into the chair, and as such went up with it.

And even if it wasn't you need the chair to control the drones.

 

[bullethead]

2) With the chair gone Atlantis is the only defense Earth has now.

Nope, they still have that Arthur's Mantle phase cloak thing. All they have to do is hook it up to the ZPM in Antarctica and they can make the planet impervious to any attack from non-phased enemies at will.

I though the ZPM hooked into the chair, and as such went up with it.

And even if it wasn't you need the chair to control the drones.

If the ZPM was destroyed, Area 51 and a huge chunk of Nevada probably would've been vaporized on the spot. All we saw was a single building getting destroyed.

 

[Kemaiku]

Even a partially charged ZPM would have ripped a massive chunk of the Earth away, or destroyed it outright. Only the chair was destroyed, the Drone magasines were built right into the Antarctic outpost and the ZPM would have been sent to the Petagon or SGC.