Stargate SG-1

[Chirios]

So, I was thinking. Back in like, the first or second series, the US military managed to launch a nuclear bomb into space and have it strike a Gouald carrier (which for those of you who don't watch the show, is rather large).

Since it only took a few hours for the nuclear bomb to reach the mothership, we can assume that the mothership was rather close. There are several problems with this:

1) the whole point of stargate is that the stargate is secret. How exactly would you be able to launch a nuclear missile, into space, in secret, with only a few hours to prepare the silo?

2) Did they not know about nuclear fallout? Lets assume for proprieties sake, that the ship was at the same distance away as the Moon. If the moon was nuked, wouldn't the resultant nuclear fallout still come back to Earth and cause a whole load of problems for whatever organisms were unlucky enough to be in its path?

 

[aeroeng314]

2) Did they not know about nuclear fallout? Lets assume for proprieties sake, that the ship was at the same distance away as the Moon. If the moon was nuked, wouldn't the resultant nuclear fallout still come back to Earth and cause a whole load of problems for whatever organisms were unlucky enough to be in its path?

A good portion of it would probably get caught in the radiation belts.

 

[Master_Ghost_Knight]

So, I was thinking. Back in like, the first or second series, the US military managed to launch a nuclear bomb into space and have it strike a Gouald carrier (which for those of you who don't watch the show, is rather large).

Since it only took a few hours for the nuclear bomb to reach the mothership, we can assume that the mothership was rather close. There are several problems with this:

1) the whole point of stargate is that the stargate is secret. How exactly would you be able to launch a nuclear missile, into space, in secret, with only a few hours to prepare the silo?

2) Did they not know about nuclear fallout? Lets assume for proprieties sake, that the ship was at the same distance away as the Moon. If the moon was nuked, wouldn't the resultant nuclear fallout still come back to Earth and cause a whole load of problems for whatever organisms were unlucky enough to be in its path?

:roll:
This is science section, not sceince fiction section.
1. In a uncategorized rocket? What is in there? Oh it is just my secret satelite, it is not of your business! Screw you! Don't put your nose on my stuff.

2. No.

 

[Homunclus]

In the end of season 7 they fought a war without anyone finding out, in season 9 they teleported a building out of Seattle, on season 8 an alien appeared on national television and they where able to keep the international presence on Antarctica a secret.

And there were even a few more incidents...what can be said? they were resourceful

 

[DarwinsOtherTheory]

In the end of season 7 they fought a war without anyone finding out, in season 9 they teleported a building out of Seattle, on season 8 an alien appeared on national television and they where able to keep the international presence on Antarctica a secret.

And there were even a few more incidents...what can be said? they were resourceful

When you have mcgyver in your team nothing is impossible.

Btw I love sg-1

 

[enterman]

As do I /\/\/\. Btw, a few people did notice that war . @ the first question: honestly, your questioning a TV show lol? Of course they're going to play it up a little, especially in the first season when they are trying to grab viewers to stay on (which they did). Stop questioning it like it's actually happened lol. Just sit back, and enjoy it like the rest of us

 

[Chirios]

:roll:
This is science section, not sceince fiction section.
1. In a uncategorized rocket? What is in there? Oh it is just my secret satelite, it is not of your business! Screw you! Don't put your nose on my stuff.

2. No.

Its a scientific question (would the nuclear fallout kill us?) which has been caused by a science fiction show.

And why no?

 

[Master_Ghost_Knight]

The power of a nuclear blast on earth is mainly due to the absorption of the energy by the surroundings and the inevitable extremely accelerated expansion of surroundings. A blast in the void all you would see is a very bright flash and an extremely puny effect compared to what we could see in a more compact environment. (but this is not fallout, fallout is the radioactive material)
1. Without a surrounding environment to absorb the radiation there wouldn't be a large creation of a radioactive material, and consequentially not too much to make fallout of. So the majority of the problems ends right there. Unless it is an absurdly big sci-fi carrier, so you would have a moderate creation of fallout potential material (it would still need to get his way into earth).
2. The material would projected in a balanced way in every direction, so by the time the first material would get to earth they would be so disperse that the concentration of radioactive material per unit of area would be extremely insignificant (even if the explosion happened in such a way that the majority of the debris was project in a contiguous way towards the earth).
3. The earth itself has natural protection, ionized particles would be deflected by the magnetic field, a good chunk of neutral particles would be deflected and impeded in the collision with the atmosphere. Whatever basses unaffected will suffer from the problem described in number 2
4. Whatever puny amounts would get to us, no worries, we can tolerate some radiation levels, in fact we are exposed to a certain level of radiation during 24h a day.
So No, fallout wouldn't on those circumstances affect our daily lives.