Stargate SG-1: True Science Page #3

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that we would consider not necessarily places to live.

In some cases they control populations.

It's the most successful way of life on Earth.

Does she please you my love?

This Stargate forms the battleground

in our struggle between the powers of good

and the powers of evil.

On our side at Stargate Command,

helping us are various aliens like the Asgard,

the Tok'Ra, and humans all around the galaxy.

Against us are the terrifying parasites the Goa'uld,

and the unstoppable and insatiable Replicators.

At first, we at the SGC fought

them with our low-tech Earth guns,

but pretty soon, we discovered these.

This is a staff weapon,

and this is a zat gun.

One blast and your enemy is stunned,

two and they die.

Now you may think this is pure science fiction,

but it turns out that the truth is much more strange.

What you're seeing here is the taser.

It's a hand-held gun that brings criminals

to their knees by blasting them with a fierce

jolt of fifty thousand volts of electricity.

The amazing thing is that the taser can knock down

a suspect without killing or even harming them.

But the US government are secretly

developing something far more powerful.

It's called the Active Denial System.

This classified new weapon works

by emitting a beam of microwaves,

like the ones you get in your microwave oven

but much more concentrated.

It is, so the experts say, a perfect ray gun.

So with ray gun weapons

that stun already in development,

are guns that can actually disintegrate

a person too far-fetched?

In order to vaporise you, I'd have to heat

you up to about a hundred million degrees,

and the energy required to do that is immense,

just literally immense,

so it's hard to imagine in a hand-held device

that you'd be able to do those sorts of things.

Directed energy weapons can be useful

in certain contexts, they can burn things,

they can destroy electronics,

they can blind people, that sort of thing.

After the break,

I'll be showing you more of the Stargate set,

and we'll come face to face with one of the most fierce

and terrifying of all of mankind's adversaries,

and finding out whether their

Earth-based relatives should be loved,

or feared.

The time has come to meet the Replicators.

Not that I wanna show off or anything,

but "Stargate" is currently one of the

longest-running science fiction series in the world,

watched by nearly twenty million

people in over eighty countries.

Not bad, eh?

It's amazing that people enjoy the show,

because really the heroes of the show ar

a bunch of screw-ups who are always causing,

you know,

horrible problems for themselves and everyone else.

I guess it's the fact that they occasionally

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