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Stargate built 15 years ago in Ohio 50k pounds concrete family time
- Reason077 2y agoStargate. The original movie was cool but I never could get in to the TV show, even during its heyday with Richard Dean Anderson. That said, if they ever did a reboot I'd probably check it out!
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- cridenour 2y agoFunny enough, I felt the complete opposite. Loved the shows, especially Atlantis, but found the movie pretty meh.
- s0rce 2y agoI liked both. TV show was great through.
- cheald 2y agoThe first couple of seasons are a little rocky, but once it established its own cast of characters and mythos, it really became something special.
- lightlyused 2y agoThe one where Teal'c goes to a performance of the Vagina Dialogs is one of my favorites.
- self_awareness 2y agoLol, had to Google it. Indeed!
- lazystar 2y agothe plot arcs don't hold up very well, but I highly recommend watching the monster of the week episodes. some of those one-off episodes, like the black hole episode, expanded my concepts of time and space in ways that I have not experienced while watching other sci fi shows.
- aetherspawn 2y agoAtlantis was a lot better than SG1 in my opinion (relative to modern attention spans), maybe start there. I liked SG Universe but it got a bit Home-and-away every now and then which was off-putting. Relationships in a sci-fi? Who cares
- Zanni 2y agoUniverse was the only series I watched (due to Scalzi being a technical advisor), but I found it infuriating that they let Tim Roth's character continue to have the run of the ship after he proved himself a psychopath.
- pmlnr 2y agoThe first season of universe is off putting. Shame because the second was brilliant.
- aetherspawn 2y agoYes, I think universe is one of the most innovative sci-fi ever written in terms of using plausible science to form a plot. I also appreciated they went into a lot of effort to explain, technically, how each plot element worked. For example they explained the science behind the gates in great detail, the shields, the air system, the stones, the vastness of space between the galaxies, etc.. don’t need to go into more detail it’s kind of spoilers. By doing it that way they made sure that all the plot twists were simple and obvious in hindsight but difficult to predict beforehand, which was very satisfying.
- jsnell 2y agoI've watched seasons 1-5 this year. It's basically my first run through, I'd only watched a couple of random episodes back in the day and not been impressed, so there's no nostalgia at play here. It absolutely holds up, and does things that seem to be impossible for streaming-era TV shows in terms of building the characters and the universe. The first season is very obviously done on a shoestring budget, but the production values will start improving after that. I honestly can't imagine what value a reboot would bring.
- Izkata 2y agoYou're right around the point they got renewed for two seasons at once, so they had a lot more freedom for extended plot/setting development. I forget exactly which two seasons they were, though. If you're continuing and at all interested in the timing, SG-1 season 8 has a two-parter premiere, and Stargate Atlantis begins immediately after that, not before or at the same time. I'd actually decided to re-watch the series this year and am just finishing the 8th season right now.
- jsnell 2y agoYes, I was intending to continue at least until Atlantis so that I can check that out with the proper context as well. Thanks for the details on viewing order.
- pmlnr 2y agoThe movie didn't age well. The series' will probably hold up forever.
- Avamander 2y agoI really wouldn't go for a reboot. SG: Origins was kinda bad even. There's a bunch of lore they could build on top of that people love and new viewers could learn to love. They could find all new cast and everything, like Atlantis was for a while and do cameos. The issue will likely be that the streaming format does not encourage character building the way it was. They'd likely make a really long movie split into seven parts. Which is not Stargate, with it's weekly monsters, overarching plotlines and occasional gags.
- drivingmenuts 2y agoI didn't start watching until the first couple of seasons were available on ... gasp ... DVD (remember those)? Got the first season because I was bored. Laid on the couch all weekend watching the entire set of shows. Called in sick on Monday and Tuesday so I could go buy and watch the second season. I used to own the movie, all ten(?) seasons and the SG-1 movies. I rewatched them a couple of times. It holds up surprisingly well. I wouldn't argue against a reboot, but I would want to see something different rather than just copying the old shows with a different cast. I think maybe the last couple of seasons were kind of a bit of stunt casting and while it eventually sort of worked, those were the worst shows since it was just sort of a rehash of the "Well, we pissed off yet another super-alien race by existing so lets kick their asses" idea. New villains, same as the old villain.
- anotherhue 2y agoThat naquadah is very heavy.
- magicmicah85 2y agoOk, you can’t just build something cool and expect people not to show up.
- defrost 2y agoWhich is why you don't tell people about having an elevator descending into a bat cave .. cool DIY build project (if you happen to have an old tourist cave on your land) but it's a nuisance dealing with the looky Lou's and drive by Penguin's..
- salawat 2y agoYa build one power producing nuclear reactor in your basement and suddenly everyone has an opinion on how you should spend your free time.
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- notme43 2y agoDoes it act like a giant superconductor though?
- arcmechanica 2y agoanything is a super conductor if you can put an giant amount of energy through it in a short period of time.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoFor anyone else who was wondering, the author said the project used approximately a dozen (cubic) yards of concrete. Prices seem to be on the order of $150/yd3, so $1800 for just the concrete.
- woodruffw 2y agoBeing teleported to Ohio is much less exciting than being teleported to Antarctica[1]. [1]: https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Solitudes https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Solitudes
- Izkata 2y ago"Dear god! Stuck on a glacier with MacGyver!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spyhk4_USyA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spyhk4_USyA
- somerandomqaguy 2y agoAt least it's not a gate in just outside of Vancouver. ;)
- ww520 2y agoPeople have the urge to build arts and monuments. See the art pieces people built in Slab City, even in the off the grid, away from society place.
- TruffleLabs 2y ago"The only catch is the Stargate in Ashland County doesn't exactly work − like the ones on television." lol - the ones on TV actually work ;)
- geor9e 2y agoHere it is from street view https://maps.app.goo.gl/x5v2SxbbriDjHXSH7 https://maps.app.goo.gl/x5v2SxbbriDjHXSH7
- meowster 2y agoAwesome, thank you. In the picture section (in Google Maps on Android at least), there is a video of it being lit up.
- MollyRealized 2y agoThat title is a little jumbled.
- pvaldes 2y agoI still don't know that it means
- nick238 2y agoI'm actually kinda curious what SG-1's production company setup was for moving around the gate to all of British Columbia's quarries and forests.
- philistine 2y agoIt was most probably made of fibreglass, and was most certainly made out of separate parts.
- shashashasha___ 2y agohaving just one seems like it's not going to help much tbh. he needs a second why to teleport to. also not sure if concrete based gate will work... never tried that.
- nouryqt 2y agoThere's a second one in Austria. Some pictures of how the creator built it and his cat: https://a-b-m-m.jimdofree.com/galerie/stargate/ https://a-b-m-m.jimdofree.com/galerie/stargate/ + archive since it's on some free webhost: https://web.archive.org/web/20230513101909/https://a-b-m-m.jimdofree.com/galerie/stargate/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230513101909/https://a-b-m-m.j... https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/stargate-kappern https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/stargate-kappern