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04-16-2008, 11:53 AM
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Actually, I believe a Stargate is used to travel nearly instantaneously between two points. That's the entire point of a wormhole. By going "through the paper" the distance between Earth and Alpha Centauri that used to be four lightyears is now the thickness of an event horizon, which we can assume is as next to zero as makes no odds. All of that "going through a blue tunnel with rings of light zipping by" thing is purely for the viewing audience's benefit and entertainment.
You can't "travel" through space that fast because we'd have to turn into energy AND have a nearly-infinite power source. More than Project Arcturus.
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