Talk:Hot Zone (Stargate Atlantis)

message: "why would a similarly advanced technology not likewise be immune? "
This sounds like a personal opinion and i will try to edit it.Ex Pluribus Unum 16:33, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Retorical question removed

message: Ok, in "Childhood's End", the EM field of M7G-677 was able to down Ancient, Wraith AND Human technology, yet in this episode, Ancient systems are immune to EM. Is it a difference between a pulse and a constant EM field or an oversight on the writers' part?
--Faris b 00:36, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  EM technology 

message: While it's well within the capability of human technology to shield equipment from EMP's (Such shielding exists in present day reality), why would the radios be shielded but not the laptops?  Logic would suggest doing the opposite, shielding the laptops and not the radios, since information can be irretrievably lost if a laptop is damaged.  Of course, why wouldn't the air force shield both, considering the importance of the Atlantis mission. JBK405 02:38, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: EM Shielded radios

message: While I am hardly an expert in EMP, I have always understood that one of the features of it was that a device did not have to be ON for it to be damaged. Is that not true? If so, then the episode has more significant technical problems than whether the radios were EMP hardened or not. --chrisweuve 08:25, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Shielding" a device by turning it off

message: What's up with McKay's theories that he mumbles out when he thinks he's going to die?
Now I wasn't a fan of Atlantis back when this ep first aired so I didn't pay much attention to the dialogue but when it aired in syndication recently I paid closer attention.
Something about looping the power on the Gate to charge a dummy ZPM.
Now is this about building up a charge to dial Earth or just using the gate to store power and send it to somewhere else like powering the shield or something? I never got that.
And...
If they were there for more than a year, I've left some notes on how to roll blackouts to effectively maintain your power requirements
What does that mean? That the Naqahdah generators only have enough power to power Atlantis for 2 years without shutting them down every now and then to save power or what? I assumed that they lasted indefinately like certain nuclear reactors that power but I guess when powering something the size of Atlantis it taxes it quite a bit.
Does anyone understand or have an idea about what he meant by that stuff?
Faris b 08:59, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  McKay's theories? 

message: Somebody questioned the fact that being the Puddle Jumper an interstellar ship, it should be able to get away from the release point fast enough to be in a safe place at the time of the detonation. However, there is something that was not factored in: the atmosphere. The release was about 20 miles above Atlatis, so we can imagine that is still within the atmosphere. The Jumper would have to vacate the atmosphere first in order to accelerate to its interstellar speeds. The presence of the atmosphere prevents the ship from reaching such velocities and the acceleration needed to accomplish that.
Two small corrections: It's an interplanetary ship, not interstellar (mentioned within the article), and even if it's not at its full speed, it should be able to accelerate to several thousand miles per hour in a bare few seconds, our own airplanes can accomplish this without inertial dampers (To protect the inhabitants from the effects of acceleration) or sufficiently durable hull (To protect it against friction from the atmosphere).  Like the article says, clearing the blast range would never have been a problem. JBK405 01:34, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fast ship? 

message: "**All of the scientists studying the virus seem to make the unjustified assumption that it was designed to kill humans - it never seems to occur to any of them that the virus could have been designed to kill the Wraith."
It never occurs to them because there's nothing in the episode to point out that it could have been designed to kill Wraith.  At this point the humans didn't know just how close to humanity the Wraith were, they had no reason to suspect that the nanites could be an effective weapon. JBK405 18:09, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Killing the Wraith

message: After viewing the episode "Progeny" and seeing various commentaries by the producers, I notice that the article is wrong when it states that the "Hot Zone" nanites are the precursors to the Asurans, and that the Ancients created them. Both the episode and the producers say that the Asurans themeselves are teh creators of the nanite virus, not part of it at all. The virus was created by them to kill the humans on Pegasus for the sake of eliminating the Wraith's food source, and it is presumabely this disagreement (if not others) which made teh Ancients realize the Asurans weren't the harmful experiment they used to be. --Sauron18 19:32, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed it anywyas.--Sauron18 19:45, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Relationship to Asurans

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