Re: SGA--Living it up in the Hotel Stargate Atlantis ("The Last Man" spoilers)

"Dan Lanciani" <ddl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> In article <MPG.2246312e822208df98bc73@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, 
> xxxh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Pete B) writes:
> | In article <1346941@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, ddl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> |
> |
> | > | I attribute that to ... less than sterling writing ... more than
> | > | anything else.
> | >
> | > Well, you know, if they'd done it only once that might be
reasonable. 
> But
> | > they've not only done it more than once they've done it without the 
> mirror
> | > per your 20 Carters.  And getting back to the original topic, Rodney

> probably
> | > knows all this.  The best fit I see is something like the Sliders 
> multiverse
> | > with many alternative realities that can still be specifically 
> identified.
> |
> | Oh yes, i've always assumed that they could - like star treks unique
> | quantum signature (or what it was they called it when worf jumped in
his
> | shuttle). Of course our people clearly don't know how to identify it,
> | but the ancients probably could if it was possible.
>
> You can't identify infinitely branching realities with a finite
coordinate
> system.  Quantum signatures (even if they somehow represent infinite 
> state)
> don't help once your original or current reality has branched.  Making
> infinite branching compatible with the Stargate universe is really,
really
> hard.
>
> Dan Lanciani
> ddl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 can identify my home planet / star / cluster / galaxy even if the
universe 
was infinite.

-- Ken from Chicago