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Yes, it would have fewer.
1 to be precise....(if they wernt spaced equally)

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Hmmmm. Doesn't sound like a major difference in aesthetic appeal, unless having nine chevrons is signficant in the way the gate works.

BTW, *bumpage*

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Now one nows what the 9th Chevron does, but i hope it will all be revialed in the next series!

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poll needs an Other option

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Thats what these replies are for

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yes, but the fact that there is no "other" or "undecided" option prevents me from submitting to the poll no matter how many posts I make

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If the 9th chevron is some miscellanous function like reversing the wormhole or a timer for reactivation (which the poll indicates no one believes) then what does one enter for the 8th chevron when travelling inside our galaxy? does one simply enter the area code for your own galaxy as a redundancy? like in virginia where we are forced to dial 10 digit phone numbers instead of the usual seven? (there are two area codes that overlap as the number of phone numbers has exceeded 10,000,000, thus you must enter 703 or the other one to dial even inside your own area.) Wouldn't this imply the need for a galactic POO? <snicker>(sorry, still only 7 years old at heart) It's for this reason i don't buy these ideas. in any case, it would be far easier for this function to be on the 8th chevron rather than the 9th (or 7th and 8th as we all know the last is the POO). you would simply enter a chevron designated "do nothing" and then proceed to the 9th (8th) to do your galaxy hopping.

I'm far more inclined to believe my origional idea that the extra chevrons simply add an additional wormhole, or wormhole alteration, to the travel and thus the extra distance. In this case, I'll place another idea out. There is no 9th (8th) chevron... yet. Perhaps the Ancients planned ahead for additional expansion of their culture and race and thus added a 9th chevron to the system to allow for such expansion. But as no worlds have been reached out that far, there are no stargates to intercept the incoming wormhole, and all addresses dialed with a 9th chevron recieve a "this number is currently out of service" answer and do not lock.

As a side, anyone ever consider the implications of the fact that the chevron guy says "Xth chevron ENCODED" rather than "Xth chevron ENTERED/DIALED". Why are the chevrons encoded? What code are we using here? A form of Morse for the Ancients? that's my ThinkAboutItForAPinch for the day.

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Hmmmm. Your points are valid. I think the reason why you don't need to enter a chevron for travel within your own galaxy is simply because the system 'understands' that you're only traveling within your galaxy. When you use the 8th chevron you're switching the focus to a different galaxy. There isd probably an 8th chevron for our galaxy, but since we haven't had an SG team leave it yet we don't know what it is

I really should've made an OTHER.

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The 'Other' option is now available.

You made a good point with the 8th Chevron Thuro... I'm unsure how to asnwer that...

In regards to the 'Encoded vs Dialed' thingy - Chevrons, in my understanding, are like keys on a keyboard (well, at the SGC, they ARE keys on a keyborad), and behind the fancy symbol, they are actually just numerical codes... 110001011011 and all that.
The anology of a phone, and hence the term, dialing, I think, was merely a way to help the plebs (like Jack) understand what was going on when the Stargate functioned. Talking about numerical intergers and codes would just result in blanks faces.

So really, 'dialing' the computer is actaully entering a code (or decifering one) - something the Tech guys understand and address accordingly.

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The thing is we don't have a clue what the show thinks becuase they keep changin the damn minds on how the gate works all the time.

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I chose other option;

Dials a different universe, hence moved from our plane of existance.

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