Stargate-So you think you solved in 14 days what they couldn't solve in 2 years-show him-90s

[@driftwolf]

The look on his face. "This validates everything I've been saying for years" followed by "I'll never be allowed to publish and clear my name".

[@cannabiscomet4410]

My favourite part of this scene is how O’Neill gives the general that look of I mean he’s figured out this much might as well show him.

[@zeaig]

Still my favorite movie & tv series.

[@mikemactavish1665]

Back when you could still smoke indoors

[@crazycatzmum]

This is a movie, not a series. Stargate Continuum is the series

[@BriesMlb_]

⁠@@crazycatzmumno stargate sg1 is the series, as well as stargate Atlantis and stargate universe. Stargate continuum is one of the sg1 follow up movie as well as the ark of truth

[@AnasTrek]

Seen it many times. Great movie! 👍 Love the series too.🙂

[@davidjakiela9553]

Of all the science fiction shows I've watched backstory on this one is the most plausible. I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was real.

[@crazycatzmum]

When Daniel discovers it's Orion, while he goes to get more water for his coffee and takes the guys newspaper lol is he saying: " I'm never going to get laid?" or " I'm never going to get paid?" Hahaha I've always been curious.....wonder if the screenplay is available anywhere

[@camgalloway691]

He says “paid”. Meaning he’s never gonna figure it out and figuring it out is what he’s being paid to do

[@jperez7893]

same set as the movie the day the earth stood still

[@Rembrant65]

The flattest of flat tops.

[@damianlee5438]

I still think it would have sounded better if he had said "So you think you've solved in 2 weeks what they couldn't solve in 2 years" It sounds very out of place to say 14 days

[@Noctilus19]

In spanish they actually say 2 weeks , sounds far better

[@jeffanon1772]

Actually wouldn't establishing a point of origin require 6 points as well....

[@aessedai2739]

The point f origin is given

[@chrisflanagan7564]

Damnit Jeff, He's an egyptologist not a geometrist. You need two numbers to define a point on a 2d plane, (x and y). You only need three to define a point in a 3d volume of space, (x,y,z). Except, that's when you can assume the symbols are numbers, in which case the accuracy of the gate would be poop. So he's sort of right, and sort of wrong. What's the 7th symbol for then? What has he figured out? Well, he's figured out that there's a set of 7 symbols, which point the way to somewhere, that it's a spacial map, a gateway to the stars and that six of the symbols are needed to choose a destination and there is one more symbol which is like a check sum to finish the job. They've been missing the 7th symbol, because the 7th symbol they have on the cartouche isn't on the gate, so they're surprised he's figured out so much. even though his geomety is pants. Once he's shown the gate, he gains more information, he sees the symbols that are on the gate, which are not shown in the text he's been working with, which allows him to fill in the blanks with and guess the correct symbol for a working address. He's just "wrong about exactly how addresses work" and that's ok because he's right about some much more. Like I'd you showed a person who didn't know what a phone was, and couldn't read a phonebook/directory and they figured out "hmm it's a list, of maybe names, and maybe locations, and these symbols could be numbers but they're all the same length and so they must identify the people some how, now some names repeat but don't have the same number, so it must identify the location, but I see here too locations that are near each other but the purpose of the number is weird to me, I assume they identify the person in some way. The front of the book uses the word that means speaking at a distance, so maybe the numbers have something to do with distance communication, but of course you've got to as 037 to the start of all of them." And everyone goes "what?!" and he says, "um yeah, it says here on the front, area prefix which implies to me that it goes before the numbers and ... Why" they're reply is "we thought that was the edition of the book!" and then they pull out a rotary dial phone. Cue the music.