Doesn't this look like the entrance to something powerfully ominous? As someone who's been in powerfully ominous places -- Minuteman Launch Control Centers, Cheyenne Mountain Space Operations Complex -- I can tell you, this is exactly what they feel like.But as it happens, this one's a lot more placid.
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Ooh you've been to Cheyenne Mountain. Thats where the Stargate program is, right? haha.
Ok that was a terribly sci-fi nerdy joke.
Well, I could say Sure, thats where it is... but then I'd have to kill you, and its been a looong time since I was a SAC-trained killer, so I don't really remember how, unless it involves force-feeding massive amounts of spaghetti, meatballs, and cannoli.
So I'll just say Gee, neither I nor General Hammond have any idea what you're talking about.
Oh darn and here I was hoping that you would be able to tell me what it would be like to go through the Stargate.
In theory, if it existed, would you say it was totally awesome? haha
Yes, I would. I've read 'scientific' papers on how Star Trek's transporters 'actually' work; this is similar in concept -- you're establishing a link between two disparate locations, presumably through what Star Trek:Voyager called a hyperspace conduit, and I'd call simply another, unseen dimension.
Years ago I heard a great analogy about that -- how, if you live in an apartment, and you want to go to the adjoining apartment, you have to go out into the hall, down the hall, and then into it, but the apartment's really only four inches away if you go right through the wall. A conduit could work the same way -- find a path that doesn't require you to travel solely through the three dimensional world.
I'm not smart enough to understand this stuff for real, even just as far as we've gotten, which is, so far as I know, at the 'quantum entangement' (known by Einstein, I think, as 'spooky action at a distance') level, but what I do understand is fascinating stuff.
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