"We need one of you nerds to figure out or do something technical. Something nobody else can do. But it'll be dangerous, difficult, and heroic." Radek always volunteers. He'll do the best he can because everyone is depending on him. Rodney always finds an excuse to stay somewhere safe and protected because he's a scared little girl.
I will say this...the micrometeorite stuff is realistic but only to a point. If they got hit in space while traversing? No issue, it's fine, space suits are able to stop ones up to a certain size IRL but you could just say these are even faster than in LEO. Inside the walls though? Even contacting the outer plating is going to destroy the micrometiorite within a foot or so. Once it contacts something solid it basically starts a shotgun effect where it breaks apart and the energy starts to spread out. This is where the concept of a 'whipple plate' comes from and entering the wall of the city would start that process, it's doubtful it would leave the other side (depending on the material), though if it did it would be much slower and more like a shotgun. Narratively though it's a great scene
Think I just realized, with the amount of damage that tower sustained the moment they attempted to land it would probably collapse from the turbulence alone not to mention the somewhat rough landing they had. It either that or Atlantean architecture is built out of plot armor.
Simple. Every season or so let someone more advanced, such as the Ancients or the Replicators, take over the city, wait for them to repair it offscreen, then take it back.
late reply but most like the city has repair drones like what we saw on desteny just you know much more advanced, like they were some how able to at least repair the main window in the control tower so unless they have a full on glass workshop somewhere they must have automated drones to the job if you give them supplies
No, Zelenka would know that a simple jump would result in wild rotations en route, even more so with a rope. It's total nonsense - without any preparation.
They were in space, sure, but shouldn't the city have its own gravity? Like how did they walk in the control tower, or any other place, that was shielded? Did they just have localized gravity in those places only and nowhere else? And no one actually made that conclusion, because "yeeeey, we're in spaaaaace!"? Seriously, it's not a space station, it's a freaking Ancient City ship Atlantis. It is capable of sustained flight through space, but it's primarily a city, so during the space fare it should have its own gravity and not only in few places, but in the whole city for god's sake. They were shown in the prologue of the first episode of Atlantis to take off from Earth to Pegasus and it had the shield extended around the whole city, so one could think, that's the default also for gravity. Having people floating on the edges of the city would look weird.
Zelenka might not have thought of it as he had highened anxiety at the time. As for whether it would have worked.....well SG isn't Hard sci fi so maybe not
because... thats a really good idea, and they couldn't do all this dramatic space tossing. Let the writers have a chance to get their word count up. Geez
The shields were still on on the central part of the city so why couldn't they have positioned the ship so the shields acted as a deflector to send all the micro asteroids elsewhere? Just saying.
*Due to the fact micro-Asteroids etc travel thousands of MPH, they're fortunate it did not hit Radek Zelenka in the upper part of his body, because due to its speed whatsoever location it hit anyone etc in it will go through.*
@@hebrewyisraeliteyahawadahite there's still plenty of shield to block that little area. But then they would have lost a plot twist. I just over think things.
@@nathanhale7444 They don't have the power to expand the shields, period. It's why that tower's missing a big chunk. Their power is beyond limited right now, Zalenka had 15 minutes to do that patch, they expand the shields even a little bit their power's gone.
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I always thought this was Zelenka's finest moment. Literally hamstrung but refusing to stop working.
"We need one of you nerds to figure out or do something technical. Something nobody else can do. But it'll be dangerous, difficult, and heroic."
Radek always volunteers. He'll do the best he can because everyone is depending on him.
Rodney always finds an excuse to stay somewhere safe and protected because he's a scared little girl.
Too bad they don't have one of those personal shields
They are incredibly hard to control and require the ancient tech gene thing to even turn on. Not sure they work through thicc suits either
Kinda curious if they ever actually figured out how to repair this building or if it was still like this when Atlantis landed in San Francisco bay
I will say this...the micrometeorite stuff is realistic but only to a point. If they got hit in space while traversing? No issue, it's fine, space suits are able to stop ones up to a certain size IRL but you could just say these are even faster than in LEO. Inside the walls though? Even contacting the outer plating is going to destroy the micrometiorite within a foot or so. Once it contacts something solid it basically starts a shotgun effect where it breaks apart and the energy starts to spread out. This is where the concept of a 'whipple plate' comes from and entering the wall of the city would start that process, it's doubtful it would leave the other side (depending on the material), though if it did it would be much slower and more like a shotgun.
Narratively though it's a great scene
Sure but unlike stuff we send into space the city was not build to protect from adtroids.
Its also possible (for head canon reasons) that the meteors were made of a sterner mineral that could punch through the walls. Maybe?
They should have reversed the lines about the jump. Would have been funnier.
Think I just realized, with the amount of damage that tower sustained the moment they attempted to land it would probably collapse from the turbulence alone not to mention the somewhat rough landing they had. It either that or Atlantean architecture is built out of plot armor.
Ancient architecture is still standing after millions of years in many cases. Suffice to say, it's durable.
Bar the massive hole in part of it during this ep.
it was still protected under the city shield. ancients prob had some sort of structural integrity field that surrounds all the buildings
i always wonder how they repair atlantis when it gets hit and damaged....like i doubt the city is made of concrete? lol
Good old neutron neutrino material.
Space spackle.
Simple. Every season or so let someone more advanced, such as the Ancients or the Replicators, take over the city, wait for them to repair it offscreen, then take it back.
@@epiendless1128 Yea i swear that's what seems to happen
late reply but most like the city has repair drones like what we saw on desteny just you know much more advanced, like they were some how able to at least repair the main window in the control tower so unless they have a full on glass workshop somewhere they must have automated drones to the job if you give them supplies
It's very peculiar Zelenka as a top scientist can't think what John thought of. No gravity man, you can jump indefinitely if you want 😅
No, Zelenka would know that a simple jump would result in wild rotations en route, even more so with a rope. It's total nonsense - without any preparation.
They were in space, sure, but shouldn't the city have its own gravity? Like how did they walk in the control tower, or any other place, that was shielded? Did they just have localized gravity in those places only and nowhere else?
And no one actually made that conclusion, because "yeeeey, we're in spaaaaace!"? Seriously, it's not a space station, it's a freaking Ancient City ship Atlantis. It is capable of sustained flight through space, but it's primarily a city, so during the space fare it should have its own gravity and not only in few places, but in the whole city for god's sake. They were shown in the prologue of the first episode of Atlantis to take off from Earth to Pegasus and it had the shield extended around the whole city, so one could think, that's the default also for gravity. Having people floating on the edges of the city would look weird.
@Alexandra Hefnerová watch the other clips, artificial gravity is shut down.
Zelenka might not have thought of it as he had highened anxiety at the time. As for whether it would have worked.....well SG isn't Hard sci fi so maybe not
@@robkemp598 "SG isn't Hard sci fi "
There are a few exceptions, but...yes.
Micro projectiles adds to the thrill and suspense during this Video
By the looks of damaged parts the almighty ancients actually built Atlantis from concrete. I always thoght it's some kind of metal or plastic compound
why not just go out there via jumper i the first place?
because... thats a really good idea, and they couldn't do all this dramatic space tossing. Let the writers have a chance to get their word count up. Geez
Because they didn't know the place they had to get to was accessible by jumper. They did only just realize that a huge chunk was opened up space
They were originally headed to a *closed* passage/hallway.
The shields were still on on the central part of the city so why couldn't they have positioned the ship so the shields acted as a deflector to send all the micro asteroids elsewhere? Just saying.
*I am assuming it's due to having extremely limited ZPM power? (◔_◔)*
*Due to the fact micro-Asteroids etc travel thousands of MPH, they're fortunate it did not hit Radek Zelenka in the upper part of his body, because due to its speed whatsoever location it hit anyone etc in it will go through.*
@@hebrewyisraeliteyahawadahite there's still plenty of shield to block that little area. But then they would have lost a plot twist. I just over think things.
@@nathanhale7444 They don't have the power to expand the shields, period. It's why that tower's missing a big chunk. Their power is beyond limited right now, Zalenka had 15 minutes to do that patch, they expand the shields even a little bit their power's gone.
They could've used a jumper to shield the area (and then noticing that the area is open to space and use the jumper to access the panel)
ZPM’ S unable to be recharged ?
No. They draw Vacuum Energy from Subspace, leading to Entropy. When total Entropy occurs, ZPM is “depleted.”