It's a neat system and all, BUT...why the lack of remote access?
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@JettMann8 Жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite scenes showing McKay and Zelenka bouncing off one another productively and effectively. McKay is very good at the minutia and Zelenka has remarkable problem solving skills as well as being far better at staying on point for the problem. They work very well together, if McKay kept his ego in check better. Which, thankfully, he most certainly does.
@leonkernan2 жыл бұрын
It's nice to see Rodney's softer side, worrying about Elizabeth's knee and all.
@ThePCguy172 жыл бұрын
Be real, he took one look at Sheppard and decided that the jock got to do all the physical exertion. This was long before he started becoming an even vaguely likeable person when not in active peril or faced with someone who was actively dying.
@leonkernan Жыл бұрын
@@ThePCguy17 You don't do sarcasm, do you?
@ThePCguy17 Жыл бұрын
@@leonkernan Your sarcasm didn't come across 1) because it's written in non-emoting text and 2) because Rodney does actually grow a softer side later on that you could well have been mistakenly referring to. Pardon me for failing to understand something that is vague and open to interpretation.
@SetekhTia2 жыл бұрын
I like that they went to the trouble to explain why an advanced city with a protective shield would bother with having lightning rods. Great attention to detail. Speaking of details, I always loved that the scorch mark in the gate room that you can see during the control room scene sticks around until the team actually starts getting resources from Earth and can take the time to repair it. Also the slow progression of Rodney learning Zelenka's name
@JOESMITH-qs8ue2 жыл бұрын
Odd that he had to explain it to Wier twice.
@SetekhTia2 жыл бұрын
@@JOESMITH-qs8ue I think he was more explaining to Sheppard, but Weir's questions were more to clarify/confirm what's been told to her previously. Or alternatively, the script for one of the scenes was rewritten but the other wasn't changed to account for it.
@JOESMITH-qs8ue2 жыл бұрын
@@SetekhTia they often don't film in chronological order or same day/week. Someone director, editor etc. misses it , IMHO
@skyserf Жыл бұрын
CC 1:45 Weir : Okay so we should still evacuate. McKay : Yes but not just because of Olympus’s pessimism..
@LewisUpperton Жыл бұрын
To answer your question in the description, there probably is a remote access. It's just they've not found it. I mean when you consider some of levels deep you sometimes have to go in a modern operating system, trying to find the remote toggle switch for the grounding stations in a system that is thousands or even millions of times more advanced would probably not be easy.
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
shame they didn't think about dumping that power into a ZPM for later🤣🤣🤣
@eschatollog99682 ай бұрын
@@raven4k998 The way i understand ZPM's - that would only shatter the universe in a bottle
@raven4k9982 ай бұрын
@@eschatollog9968 and that is why no zpm's for you because we don't need you shattering the universe now
@NormanYapEK2 жыл бұрын
They really made David Nykl's accent thicker later on in the series huh. I don't remember it being this subtle in the early seasons.
@CZpersi2 жыл бұрын
Czech accent in English is very specific, but difficult to describe. It does not sound like other Eastern Europeans. Also, Czech is a phonetic language, which means that everything is read _exactly_ as it is written and this causes Czechs to incorrectly pronounce sylables that are supposed to be deaf in English.
@DomWeasel Жыл бұрын
I think Nykl was out of practice in the first season. His normal Canadian accent comes through several times, like the start of this when he says 'Hurricane'.
@kadindarklord Жыл бұрын
Oh. So that's where that conversation is from. I've seen compilations with it. TBH, I thought they were talking about the quarters.
@kamara4700 Жыл бұрын
If the control room is safe you could have a few dozen workers helping you and easily regroup when it's go time
@hycron12342 жыл бұрын
Ptty Shepard didn't think to take a jumper to the grounding stations.
@Ragitsu2 жыл бұрын
Pity the Ancients didn't include remote access for their grounding stations :-P.
@hycron12342 жыл бұрын
@@Ragitsu - I wonder if Rodney and Elizabeth were trolling Shepard by saying there was no remote access. 😉
@naturelass2 жыл бұрын
@@Ragitsu they probably did but it was probably from a remote control station the atalantis expedition had yet to explore/repair after all they were still trying to get several sections working and powered well in to the later seasons and had lots of labs and contol rooms they had yet to discover the use of, plus knowing the ancient such a vital piece of city safety euipment pobably had a command code/password needed for the remote functions so manually is best way to A make sure they can disconnect them and B visually see they have disconnected last thing they would have wanted is a faulty sensor telling them they are all disconnected when one of them is not.
@ThePCguy172 жыл бұрын
@@Ragitsu I do believe that when they say they had to disable them they mean reach into the guts of a thing that doesn't have an 'off' switch and pull out some important bits that won't damage it permanently if they're removed. This isn't the kind of system you want a hacker to be able to remotely disable since a hacker would also likely be able to flood the city with electricity and this system would be what makes that move futile. Though come to think of it the Ancients definitely weren't humble enough to be planning around getting hacked. But they were at war, so it's possible the Wraith forced them to think laterally and consider the possibility.
@irregularassassin63802 жыл бұрын
@@Ragitsu There probably wasn't one (or an easily accessible one) for the same reason there aren't ways to disable lightning rods on skyscrapers, or automatic brakes on elevators, or the brakes on your car. It's a giant safety system for the entire city, one with (presumably) three redundant grounding stations so that the corridors don't become deathtraps during storms! That's not something you want easily disabled, nor is it something you're probably ever going to want disabled, unless you're repairing the system. If you are repairing it, you'll have qualified technicians on-site. I mean, imagine if three backwater hicks, only one of which has a half-backed idea of how your tech works, decided they wanted to monkey with a system that handles multiple gigajoules of energy. That would be so dangerous!
@skyserf Жыл бұрын
3:25 Where the -Puddle Jumpers- Gateships all occupied?
@jiriseidl43762 жыл бұрын
Ironic to hear Radek say that, since we just had a very rare, but nonetheless devastating tornado.
@raven4k9982 жыл бұрын
the funny thing is nerds fear static electric surges from killing their tech part like computers and stuff which begs the question why do the shields not only survive the static electricity but also run off of it?
@quinnsinclair70282 жыл бұрын
@@raven4k998 I would assume crystal connections are a lot more static resistant than metal contacts.
@toomanyaccounts2 жыл бұрын
@@raven4k998 well if you are going to build something to run off lighting strikes having it survive those would be part of the design process
@raven4k9982 жыл бұрын
@@toomanyaccounts yeah except one slight problem with your logic the ancients designed the shields to run off of zpm power not lightning strikes there fore why does the shield not blow when it gets that first lightning strike fed into it? please actually watch the show before assuming that it was designed for lightning strikes when it was not the lightning rods feed the power into the sea not the shields Rodney just half fast rerouted the power to the shield assuming that it could take the power yet you computer cannot take a static shock to power it if you tried you would fry your computer cause it's designed for regular electricity
@toomanyaccounts2 жыл бұрын
@@raven4k998 the ancients had lighting rods to channel the energy into the ocean. the system however could be fed by the lighting but that was more of a side effect of the power system design. they just had to have most of the people leave since it wasn't designed to channel the lighting completely. the atlantis team in other wods jury rigged a power source for the shield
@marsspacex60652 жыл бұрын
Lightening strikes have a ton power but they only last milliseconds so not that much energy.
@toomanyaccounts2 жыл бұрын
so do explosions. yet explosions can be harnessed. firearms are one example
@mr.flibble31902 жыл бұрын
True enough for each individual strike, but it's less of a problem when a megastorm is pounding you with strike after strike for hours.
@harshad13132 жыл бұрын
Up to several Gigajoules per strike. So 1 strike per second is comparable to a very large nuclear plant.
@toomanyaccounts2 жыл бұрын
@@harshad1313 the big problem is there is no battery or capacitor that could snatch that intense amount of power without completely being fried.
@johnremcastro2 жыл бұрын
@@toomanyaccounts except technology from very advanced civilization on a city that can literally travel FTL. 😬
@ericandes4288 Жыл бұрын
Windmills 😂
@Ragitsu11 ай бұрын
"Magnets."
@Tap-a-roo Жыл бұрын
It's interesting that in their arrogance they never considered someone might actually try to take the city while there was a limited presence there.
@michaelsublet3283 Жыл бұрын
I've been through 5 Hurricanes and numerous tropical storms and I don't remember ever seeing any lightning.
@Ragitsu11 ай бұрын
Off-world?
@develynseether44264 ай бұрын
It's neither, it's just a storm, a very powerful, very big storm. Calling them a tropical storm is a misnomer. In 1993 a storm called Braer developed in the Atlantic, it covered ⅔ of the Atlantic, had air pressure of a force 5 hurricane and wind of a force 3 but was still a storm.
@Fidi9872 жыл бұрын
Why is Weir "Elizabeth" to Rodney and Shepard "Major"? Isn't that kind of insulting for Weir or are they close buddies?
@JOESMITH-qs8ue2 жыл бұрын
Rodney is a civilian contractor as is Wier.
@irregularassassin63802 жыл бұрын
He would also have to refer to her as "doctor" if he wanted to use her proper honorific. The issue there is that he possesses the same honorific, effectively having the same academic "rank" as her. Thus, it would seem particularly stuffy to refer to her by her honorific.
@icer1249 Жыл бұрын
weirs a civilian. He could call her Dr but thats more a formal thing and not something Rodney would use for general conversation. Later in the series he also stops calling Sheppard by his rank and uses his name.
@TheBigExclusive2 жыл бұрын
I don't fully understand the plan. Wouldn't the shield block the lightning strikes?
@Hoki42 жыл бұрын
Yes but the shield works with capacitor kind of system, it charges capacitors and keeps shields up for a certain amount of time, unless shield is being drained by damage on them. Or least that's how i understood it :D
@rvaughan742 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing it's a the shield goes down once the powers used up and the next strike recharges the shield.
@Jukantos2 жыл бұрын
Yes, once it's activated. But as you can see later in the episode, the idea was to supercharge the entire city, basically turn it into a big capacitor. The stored energy kept the shield up just long enough to block the most devastating super wave from washing away the city. Then the shield collapsed due to a lack of more incoming power, which meant certain decks especially around the back side of the city (from the perspective of where the wave was coming from) still got flooded. This is also why about half a dozen episodes later we get the one with the damaged lab on that side of the city where the replicator nano killer bots have been freed by the lab flooding.
@Kboyer362 жыл бұрын
@@Jukantos Was that flooding from the storm? I always thought that was left over from when they found the City. Even when they moved in, there were already sections of the outer part of the city that were flooded.
@toomanyaccounts2 жыл бұрын
@@Kboyer36 more got flooded if any sections were damaged when the city rose from the ocean when the shield started to fail
@TheDragonaf1 Жыл бұрын
0:41, 0:49, 1:16, 2:08 - Did Zelenka forget he was Russian?? What was going on with the accent haha