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* It's even worse on the return trip. Daniel and Sha're found a cartouche containing Earth's address, but the seventh symbol is "worn off." They now KNOW the behavior of the gate system, and they know the point of origin symbol isn't one of the ones in the address. That means they have to try at most 33 times to open the gate.
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* It's even worse on the return trip. Daniel and Sha're Sha'uri found a cartouche containing Earth's address, but the seventh symbol is "worn off." They now KNOW the behavior of the gate system, and they know the point of origin symbol isn't one of the ones in the address. That means they have to try at most 33 times to open the gate.
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** Abydos's importance, as well as Ra's status as the most powerful of several interplanetary emporers, were largely invented by SG-1. In the film, Ra is all but stated to simply be an alien astronaut/con man, whose doesn't have the soldiers to spare to guard or police Abydos.
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** It is possible that this wasn't an Academic crowd, but instead were a "I'm here for the Aliens" crowd, and when he refused to give them that, they left. Daniel's rep was clearly at a low already by this point, maybe at this point he was the "Aliens" meme guy, and when he didn't deliver a so bad it is good speech, that is why the crowd left.
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***It can- but it has never been my experience that academics are in general so rude as to walk out, en masse from a lecture that they'd presumably gone out of their way to attend. They would see it through until the end and then indulge in a brutal Q&A session.
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[[WMG: Why did the expedition team bring so much spare equipment and weapons?]]
When Skaara and the other kids rummage through the Earth expedition's supplies, they apparently find enough loaded firearms, helmets and tactical vests to equip at least a dozen of them. There's being prepared and there is conveniently bringing enough to outfit a whole platoon for a mission that would only have lasted a few hours as per the original plan.
When Skaara and the other kids rummage through the Earth expedition's supplies, they apparently find enough loaded firearms, helmets and tactical vests to equip at least a dozen of them. There's being prepared and there is conveniently bringing enough to outfit a whole platoon for a mission that would only have lasted a few hours as per the original plan.
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** They know that they need six symbols and the point of origin, but again, they don't know for a ''fact'' how it works. Add in that it's never made clear how they dial the Stargate on Abydos since we see no sign of a DHD, and it may be that they only had the means available to attempt to dial the 'gate once before they ran out of power; they couldn't afford to dial the Stargate several times until they found the right combination because they'd run out of power.
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[[WMG:Why Didn't Ra Post Guards at the Abydos Stargate Terminal?]]
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[[WMG:Why Didn't didn't Ra Post Guards post guards at the Abydos Stargate Terminal?]]terminal?]]
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* It may be that the pyramids provide a more stable landing platform and also just look more dramatic; keep in mind that the Goa'uld are rampant egotists who often do things just to look intimidating and cool rather than because it's practical.
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Col. O'Neill brings along a backpack-sized nuke as a failsafe to protect Earth from attack through the Stargate. Such devices don't generally have a huge yield, and in this case certainly wouldn't need it, being just a few feet away from the thing they want to destroy. So we're looking at a few kilotons, ''tops''. Ra wants to send it back with a payload of naquadah to "increase its power a hundred fold" in order to destroy human civilization. Assuming an original yield of about 5 kilotons (which is really quite generous), that would put it at around the middle-range of our own strategic nuclear weapons arsenal, and would be detonated in a remote military bunker underneath a mountain. Apart from the poor saps in the bunker itself, would there even be so much as a single casualty? Even allowing for a little poetic license, Ra would have to increase the yield by ''another'' factor of 100 to even reach the high end of our weaponry, and a ''further'' 100 beyond that just to start getting into ''low-end'' civilization-ending events (wouldn't even be listed on Wiki/TheOtherWiki's list of significant asteroid impacts). The Chicxulub impact 65 million years ago was a further ''20,000'' times more powerful still. Either Ra thinks Earth's entire civilization is clustered within a few dozen kilometers around the Stargate, or he is severely overestimating our ability to pack an EarthShatteringKaboom into a tiny package.
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Col. O'Neill brings along a backpack-sized nuke as a failsafe to protect Earth from attack through the Stargate. Such devices don't generally have a huge yield, and in this case certainly wouldn't need it, being just a few feet away from the thing they want to destroy. So we're looking at a few kilotons, ''tops''. Ra wants to send it back with a payload of naquadah to "increase its power a hundred fold" in order to destroy human civilization. Assuming an original yield of about 5 kilotons (which is really quite generous), that would put it at around the middle-range of our own strategic nuclear weapons arsenal, and would be detonated in a remote military bunker underneath a mountain. Apart from the poor saps in the bunker itself, would there even be so much as a single casualty? Even allowing for a little poetic license, Ra would have to increase the yield by ''another'' factor of 100 to even reach the high end of our weaponry, and a ''further'' 100 beyond that just to start getting into ''low-end'' civilization-ending events (wouldn't even be listed on Wiki/TheOtherWiki's Website/TheOtherWiki's list of significant asteroid impacts). The Chicxulub impact 65 million years ago was a further ''20,000'' times more powerful still. Either Ra thinks Earth's entire civilization is clustered within a few dozen kilometers around the Stargate, or he is severely overestimating our ability to pack an EarthShatteringKaboom into a tiny package.
