Mebber,
Xenomorph,
13 years ago
Haha, I knew you would jump in to defend this show.
"that's only 214 habitable planets in a galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars"
As far as i know, actual (and probably very vague) estimates speak of 500 million planets in our galaxy within the goldilock-zone, but that doesen't mean they're all teeming with life. There are many more factors which are important for planetary habitability, like mass, orbit and rotation, geochemistry, seismic stability, the elements a planet composites of and of course it's stars radiation output. It's like a lottery: you've got a good chance one of these points are supporting life, but the odds that ALL of them fits are very low.
"Did you expect the stargates to be on planets where nothing can live?"
Why not, unhabtitable planets can be mined too.
But let's assume a good part of these 500 million planets are actually habitable. "Habitable" doesen't mean a planet looks like Uncle Toms vacation resort with nice forests, plashy streamlets and bambi hopping over the nice green veld. A meager rock with thin air and partly toxic but fluid water and a few microbic lifeforms would still be considered as "habitable", and astronoms would have a climax if they'd actually find a planet like this.
But many planets in Stargate aren't just habitable, they're perfect copies of earth, even the suns are yellow so the planets have nice green plants.
And all these nice planets even doesen't seem to be something special. They're presented like something regular.
"Oh hey, just another exoplanet looking like colorado, habitated by a few primitives. Well, nothing of value here, let's go."
It's a matter of presantation, earth-like planets should be something rare and extremly valuable.
All i say is Stargate isn't a very good SciFi show in this area. I liked it nevertheless, since it succeeded in other areas.