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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 5148020" data-attributes="member: 18182">The chair's purpose is not to drill holes in people's heads.  The chair has the same purpose as a device from SG-1 that imparts all of the knowledge of the Ancients into your head, although it is an "older" version of the technology.  This is discussed in the episode where the chair first appears.Problem is, human brains can't handle the information download, so the unlucky person who decides to sit in the chair gets brain-fried.In the original SG-1 episodes, Col O'Neill gets the download from a more advanced version of "the chair" (although it is mounted on a wall and is very organo-tech creepy looking) and initially gains all the knowledge of the Ancients, but it is slowly killing his brain . . . . until our heroes manage to undo the effects of the device and Jack's brain is saved, and he loses all that great advanced knowledge.Rush and Young are aware of this, Young feels the chair is too dangerous to experiment with and forbids anyone to sit in it.  Rush feels that experimentation is worth it, but isn't going to sit in the chair himself and risk his own big brain.  So he manipulates another civilian to sit in the chair, and that poor dude gets brain-fried immediately.  I'm pretty sure the chair didn't actually physically drill holes in the dude's head, but I'd have to rewatch the episode . . . .</blockquote>