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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hatchling Dragon" data-source="post: 3604411" data-attributes="member: 580">It was pointed-out that the Wraither were close to the Ancients in technology, which isn't suprising considering where they stole the technology from originaly.  Even so the Ancients could beat them 1 vs 1, but the Wraith have vast numbers (and apparently the ability to breed like insects?) on thier side and just wore them down.I think that the weapons are so effective (the Asgard couldn't defeat a 'toilet ship' themselfs) because they had a ZPM to supply power on a level they themselfs couldn't manage.  Again, the Asgard aren't the Ancients, they haven't shown any sign of having ZPM technology.That happened once, before that it was unclear as to if the 'stuff' was created or simply beamed from storage.  From watching the eppisode you're refering to I got the definate impressoin that it was all Jack's doing, via the Ancient Database he was 'infected' with at the time.  Thor even sounded suprised when he mentioned that not only was Jack using the ship's computer to design something, but was also tying in the beaming devices as a means of replicating the device instantly.  And in the Finaly Sam definately stated that she had to make some slight modifications to start 'replicating' via Beaming devices, so that doesn't sound like standard Asgard tech, especialy as they'd just had the ship upgraded with all the best toys available at the time.  That would definately have been on the list of upgrades, if for no other reason than to make the other upgrades far easier and faster by simply beaming old stuff out and the new and improoved toys into thier places. Again I interpreted things differently, after rewatching the show (I love DVR's) there wasn't enough time to implement any solutions they could come up with, and then Sam admited to having given up on finding a way out of thier situation.  After talking with Daniel at the '20 years later' point she apparently went back to work and came up with a way to reverse time to the point of the time bubble's initial formation, but that took 30 more years.  It was at that point that they had a soultion but no longer had the power to implement it.Yet again, I see it the opposite of your view point.  The Ancient database was far more intuitive and user-friendly (just not user-healthy).  Sure the pesky thing will end up killing any human crazy enough to put thier face in one of the 'output jacks' (Jack's definately crazy) before this happens they have a rapidly growing understanding of not only Ancient knowledge, but apparently get to use at least some of the various 'psychic powers' that the Ancients possesed.Thor on the other hand seems to have done little more than program a holographic version of the various windows error messages:  ie: "That function is not allowed".  Note that after just a short while Sam shuts the program down, with a look on her face that combined disgust/frustration and a certian satisfaction as well.</blockquote>

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