# Stargate SG-1 Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 31, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003 "2010-10-31T20:14:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/1 "2010-10-31T20:14:23Z")
What would happen if Col. O’Neil (Richard Dean Anderson) walked behind the star gate and went through it from behind? (so to speak) Instead of going through a worm-hole would he go through a hole-worm? Time travel? Would he end up in a black hole? I need to know before I finish building mine. Can’t be to careful you know… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/2 "2010-10-31T20:19:10Z")
He’d get his truck, his wife, and his dog back. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/3 "2010-10-31T20:52:47Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > He’d get his truck, his wife, and his dog back. Yayyyy! ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/4 "2010-10-31T21:02:30Z")
Hmmmm… What about Samantha? Better than the dog. Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisBooth12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@ChrisBooth12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisBooth12)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/5 "2010-10-31T21:04:50Z")
He would die ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/6 "2010-10-31T21:40:45Z")
> [@ChrisBooth12](#): > > He would die Yep, that probably right. The gates have a tendency to disintegrate people or objects that use them improperly. I think that walking into an “incoming” wormhole disintegrates the subject (though radio waves can go through both ways just fine), and being in the path of that _whoosh_ of a new wormhole definitely disintegrates the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/7 "2010-10-31T23:11:48Z")
I realize that, but maybe the backside goes" hsoohw" ? Is one sucked into the “hsoohw” and perhaps, well, turns up on Fox News, or something worse? If that’s possible. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/8 "2010-10-31T23:35:37Z")
Might be the fourth way you can kill someone with the Stargate, the other three being: 1. Have them stand in front of the Stargate when it opens, and have them get hit by the “wave” of “water” which briefly extends from the Gate. 2. Have the iris closed on your Stargate when someone at another Stargate dials yours, and attempts to come through (the iris prevents them from rematerializing on your end). 3. Stick part of them through an open Stargate, then shut it down. Slice! ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/9 "2010-11-01T00:33:32Z")
As far as I can recall time travel would happen if a stargate was used during a solar flare, which would occur only when it was convenient for the plot. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/10 "2010-11-01T00:57:27Z")
He’d end up in the X-Files universe. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/11 "2010-11-01T01:36:39Z")
Oh god, anything but the X-Files! ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/12 "2010-11-01T10:43:25Z")
ISTR that it’s irrelevant if one enters from the “front” or the “rear” of the event horizon. It’s not a “tunnel” in the physical sense, but rather a “threshold” that enters one into the wormhole. I could be, and probably am, wrong… ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/13 "2010-11-01T10:48:23Z")
> [@ryan](#): > > ISTR that it’s irrelevant if one enters from the “front” or the “rear” of the event horizon. It’s not a “tunnel” in the physical sense, but rather a “threshold” that enters one into the wormhole. > > I could be, and probably am, wrong… Not doubting you, but in that case one wonders why the iris is only on one side. Or is it? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/14 "2010-11-01T11:24:24Z")
> [@ryan](#): > > ISTR that it’s irrelevant if one enters from the “front” or the “rear” of the event horizon. It’s not a “tunnel” in the physical sense, but rather a “threshold” that enters one into the wormhole. > > I could be, and probably am, wrong… Not in Stargate physics. The wormhole is entirely artificial. You step through one side, and you are split up into your component molecules (ala the transporter) and then streamed through the real wormhole, which is very tiny. You come out the other end, and are rematerialized. And, yes, a solar flare causes time travel–but you have to have the timing perfect, which requires knowing ahead of time when a flare is going to happen. And it has to be in a direct line between the two sides of the wormhole. It takes future tech, or at least future information. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/15 "2010-11-01T22:55:59Z")
Great question. Here’s [one answer](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100422113313AAtwFos): > [@](#): > > According to one novel, “Survival of the Fittest” if I remember correctly, trying to walk into the back of the gate results in an “most unpleasant” death. > At least, that’s what Bra’tac tells Jack when he suggests they could escape through the back (since they’ve never tried going through that before). Bra’tac points out that he once knew a man who tried it, but “his death was most unpleasant”. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/16 "2010-11-01T23:48:40Z")
I always thought if you tried to go through the back it would just push you away, sort of like a trampoline, but I don’t know that anything in the show ever supports that theory. I have no idea where I came up with it. Interestingly, in the original movie, there’s a little “tail” sticking out the backside when a wormhole opens. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/17 "2010-11-02T00:48:13Z")
Two quibbles. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > 1. Have the iris closed on your Stargate when someone at another Stargate dials yours, and attempts to come through (the iris prevents them from rematerializing on your end). Quibble the First: You _do_ rematerialize. Of course, you’re a smear that’s considerably less than a molecule thick, but some kind of goo rematerializes. I’m rewatching it with a buddy, and Sam just explained that to either Daniel or Hammond (or both) > [@](#): > > 1. Stick part of them through an open Stargate, then shut it down. Slice! Quibble the Second: That only works on some Stargates. Others will either spit you out or stay open longer. (See: Stargate Universe, first couple of episodes). Stupid, _STUPID_ inconsistant Ancients! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/18 "2010-11-02T01:35:35Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Two quibbles. > > Quibble the First: You _do_ rematerialize. Of course, you’re a smear that’s considerably less than a molecule thick, but some kind of goo rematerializes. I’m rewatching it with a buddy, and Sam just explained that to either Daniel or Hammond (or both) > Quibble the Second: That only works on some Stargates. Others will either spit you out or stay open longer. (See: Stargate Universe, first couple of episodes). Stupid, _STUPID_ inconsistant Ancients! 😉 Which episode was it that split people? I aways recall being able to keep a Stargate active longer by essentially sticking something into it. Whether it was a particle stream or something else, it was definitely possible. Plus I am not sure there was a way to shut it down short of destroying the power source. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/19 "2010-11-02T01:40:30Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > Which episode was it that split people? I aways recall being able to keep a Stargate active longer by essentially sticking something into it. Whether it was a particle stream or something else, it was definitely possible. That’s the trouble with quibbles. No, wait … wrong show. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003/20 "2010-11-02T01:43:41Z")
I believe that Kawalsky was killed in episode 3 (he had been taken by a goa’uld) when Teal’c held his head partway in the wormhole while they shut down the gate at the SGC. Basically just took off the back half of his head. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-question/559003.md?page=2)