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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 5636180" data-attributes="member: 31216">In the Stargate movie, the gate circle had 7 symbols.The conversation went: (paraphrasing)Brilliant scientist: *draws a cube on the white board* "To identify a point in three-dimensional space, you need six coordinates." *puts a dot in each face of the cube, then connects them all to a dot in the center*Other scientist: "But what's the seventh number for?"Brilliant scientist: *draws another dot away from the cube, then connects it to the cube dot* "Point of origin."So you need six coordinates for a point in 3D space? But only one if that point is an origin? WTF?To make it even more ridiculous, they could have kept the 7 numbers concept, (if that was necessary), and still made the whole thing work.3 coordinates for the first point, 3 coordinates for the destination. "What's the seventh number for?"*draws line between points* "Time!"Sure, you rocket scientists might argue that, but at least it wouldn't sound moronic to anyone who passed middle school science. What gets me is that apparently no one, writers, director, actors, cameraman, bothered to speak up about the stupid line.Edit: I just looked this scene up on YouTube: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-kf3QtVBFg&feature=related[/ame]Starts about 1:30 into that vid.Bullgrit</blockquote>