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

In article <xcOdnaxONrb5i0DanZ2dnUVZ_r2nnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "Dan Lanciani" <ddl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:1346979@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 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]
> 
> I can identify my home planet / star / cluster / galaxy even if the
universe 
> was infinite.
> 
> -- Ken from Chicago 

It has always interested me when galactic travelers can recognise star 
patterns from any angle! If you really traveled any distance in the 
galaxy nothing would be recognisable, probably even for a computer!

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