I join you all in laughing at the spoiled ass bitches who go to college and have a inflated view of their self importance. The only thing I can say about them, is their girlfriends are good for some free pussy when they get drunk. HAHA

First off, each of the symbols are suppose to represent actual constellations in the sky, and so they aren’t suppose to be some arbitrary symbols that represent an address, but are an actual physical address, ie. constellations where you can connect the dots.

The traditional thinking goes like this. You need one point to define a point. If you want to define a line, you need two points, one at each end. If you want to define a point in three dimensional space, you need three coordinates, x, y, and z, or how much to the left, how much right, and how much to go up. However, if you want to define a point in a place like the universe where there is no beginning or end, you’ll also need a fourth point to be the point of origin, or (0,0,0) in the Cartesian coordinate system. For example, you need a starting point (the fourth point) to tell you, ok, starting from *here* I will then move right 2, then left 3, and then I go up 3.

Now, there is an alternate way of defining a point in space, which is what the movie was trying to get at, which is if you have two points, you can draw a line, and if you have lines cross, then they can also form a point. They claim you need 6 points (forming three lines) to create this “destination” point. However, I do not see why you can’t just use 4 points or *two* lines. Two lines that intersect will ALSO give you a point. You don’t need three lines to intersect to give you a point. In fact, forcing three lines to meet from a fixed set of points (remember, there are only so many symbols,and they have physical meaning so they aren’t arbitrary) is much more difficult if not impossible.

The number of possible combinations are much smaller than what you might think. They are limited by the fact that the symbols are physical representation of constellations. If you arbitrarily draw two lines in 3D space, they don’t always intersect and form a point.

Another question and problem with the whole Stargate system. What if you have two gates at the same location? (ie. what happened on Earth) Wouldn’t the origin be the same? and the destination point also be the same? Would both gates be activated at the same time? Where would a person come out of if they were traveling to Earth if that were the case? And what about those gates that are flying in a space ship? The point of origin is constantly changing. How do you dial a gate then?

So there are a lot of problems with their explanation. But… it’s just sci-fi so they can make things up. Still interesting to think about.

I must admit address system is close to stupid in the show. Super intelligent as Ancients were, they couldn’t attach this point of origin information just to the big red button on the DHD. And if pair of symbols represents a coordinate, think of the scale of our galaxy and 38 symbols - precision of such system would be ridiculous. But hey, so are english speaking village mob in another galaxy :9

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