How do the ZPMs even work? Sometimes they can be exhausted, and sometimes they keep up massive functions for milennia. There's something fishy going on there.
They tap into zero-point energy, and given that doing that in our universe causes all sorts of problems with exotic particles, they only extract it from the micro-universe that is contained within the module. As more energy is extracted, the module gains entropy and eventually it becomes so difficult to get energy out that it might as well be depleted.
Quite how you create a micro-universe in a container in the first place without violating the laws of thermodynamics in our own universe, I don't know. It must have been quite difficult and/or time-consuming, or the Ancients would have had lots of ZPMs lying around. The reason that the Asurans were able to make so many is because they had lots of time not fighting a war, not to mention more numbers and no need for physical recuperation.
For the both of you:
Zero-Point Module. No violation of the laws of thermodynamics are taking place. The reason they can keep up massive functions for milennia yet fail is because of the relative demands of power. Keeping a city running dormant for 10,000 years underwater is obviously not anywhere near to what it takes to open a space/time rift, a wormhole, or a matter bridge. For obvious reasons, the exact amount of power of anything is never described, but it fits quite neatly with real-life physics theory.
What I'd like to know is what the hell powers the Stargates, instead. Is that ever explained, except that they can siphon power from eachother? It's been explained that it comes from the DHD, but given the enormouse power requirements supposedly necessary to open a stable wormhole, can't they just reverse-engineer the DHD's and use them as piecemeal power sources? Bah.
Anyway, the last episode was just a complete failure. There is no way that they would move the chair to area51 and not tell the only person that could use it. "Ooops, a single sentence and an hour in a chopper could have saved mankind. Sorry!". KIDS think like that. Humans MAY make that mistake. But this is a seasoned combat veteran who LIVES AND BREATHES strategy and has done so for the last 10 years. She should be shot for treason. Completely unbelievable. It was the execution of any plausability that character had.
What are you
talking about? Sheppard isn't the only one that can use the chair. Anyone with the ATA gene can use the chair, but he and Beckett are the only ones with actual experience - that's why they wanted John on Earth.
John was told immediatly when it became relevant for him to know.
