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Feb. 8th, 2015 11:39 pmFrith: SGA has magic radios. They always seem to just automatically connect to the right people at the right times, it's wonderful.
Sholio: yep
Frith: I don't even care about trying to make them work properly in fic
they don't in canon
Sholio: I seem to recall at one point I tried to figure out how they worked for fic purposes and gave up.
Like ... can everyone hear the conversations, or just the person you're talking to? It seems to vary by situation.
Frith: clearly Atlantis has a sentient radio network and it adds people to the channel when they're about to be talked to
Sholio: XD
If they're like a normal radio (or walkie-talkie), then everyone is on the same channel, hears the conversations and the person you're talking to can answer when you address them. That actually MAKES SENSE.
But they don't always seem to do that.
Frith: like, maybe there are just a million channels and everyone's predecided which will be used for what and can pick up mutlple ones when there's activity in them
like irc
irc radios :P
Sholio: hmmm, that actually makes a weird kind of sense
especially if it's being monitored by a highly advanced computer
Frith: that's my theory and I'm sticking with it
Sholio: sure
Frith: so each team has their own radio chatroom, and there's one for department heads, and one for miliatary, and about a hundred set up by various gossip groups...
Sholio: and newcomers are thoroughly baffled
I'm now firmly convinced of this. Either that or the radio network really does run on literal magic. It's things like this that makes it very hard to write realistic-feeling fic, when the show can't decide what it's doing!
On a related note, does anyone know how exactly the transporters work? Do they de/materialise people to different locations, or is it a physical lift/escalator system which goes up and down and sideways a la Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? (They'd have to be going FAST...)
Sholio: yep
Frith: I don't even care about trying to make them work properly in fic
they don't in canon
Sholio: I seem to recall at one point I tried to figure out how they worked for fic purposes and gave up.
Like ... can everyone hear the conversations, or just the person you're talking to? It seems to vary by situation.
Frith: clearly Atlantis has a sentient radio network and it adds people to the channel when they're about to be talked to
Sholio: XD
If they're like a normal radio (or walkie-talkie), then everyone is on the same channel, hears the conversations and the person you're talking to can answer when you address them. That actually MAKES SENSE.
But they don't always seem to do that.
Frith: like, maybe there are just a million channels and everyone's predecided which will be used for what and can pick up mutlple ones when there's activity in them
like irc
irc radios :P
Sholio: hmmm, that actually makes a weird kind of sense
especially if it's being monitored by a highly advanced computer
Frith: that's my theory and I'm sticking with it
Sholio: sure
Frith: so each team has their own radio chatroom, and there's one for department heads, and one for miliatary, and about a hundred set up by various gossip groups...
Sholio: and newcomers are thoroughly baffled
I'm now firmly convinced of this. Either that or the radio network really does run on literal magic. It's things like this that makes it very hard to write realistic-feeling fic, when the show can't decide what it's doing!
On a related note, does anyone know how exactly the transporters work? Do they de/materialise people to different locations, or is it a physical lift/escalator system which goes up and down and sideways a la Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? (They'd have to be going FAST...)
