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It also occured to me that while we've never seen anyone dial the same symbol in the DHD twice, let alone twice in a row, that's common in planet designations. (A la P3R-668 or some such.) In fact, if you were dealing with the geometric model Daniel purports in the movie, you could not have the same symbol twice in the same address. In fact, with that model, it shouldn't matter what order you dial the six symbols in, they would still designate the same planet, which is clearly not the case in the show. In the show, it has been used as a plot point (can't remember where) that different permutations of the same set of symbols lead to different places.

Which leads me back to my original statement that saying that the six symbols specify a unique point in space through geometry is just stupid and couldn't possibly work and it has to be something more arbitrary than that.

bubbleslayer has pointed out that in one ep Sam says that P designates planet and M moon, which brings me back to the original hypothesis that the designations are like normal astronomic designations and have nothing to do with the gate. But it leads me to two questions. One - do they know before they dial where the wormhole will go (there is evidence to support this)? And two - do they know in advance whether it will be the planet or the moon with the gate? Unless the Abydos cartouche specifies this for the gate addresses, I don't see how they could, and if they don't, they wouldn't be able to name the planets/moons with those designations.

I guess my whole point is that it's just so elegant if the planet designations are the gate addresses, and since there are 36 symbols on the gate and 6 digits in the planet designations there's no reason why that shouldn't be how it works. So I'm going to say that that's how the SGC's assigning planet designations. lalalalalala! Can't hear you!

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I can tell you the date & time his parents died
Ah, but which continuity?

Actually, both pre and post-crisis (as well as post-infinite crisis) the time and date have remained the same. June 26th 10:47 pm. In fact, when Batman opened the lock/door to the Cave behind the grandfather clock in his mansion, he first had to set the clock counter-clockwise until it hit 10:47 pm, after which he had to pull at a lever. He knows the exact time because his father's wrist-watch cracked.

But yeah, that's only comic continuity. Movie/animated, couldn't tell ya. I mean,in the movie he left Die Fliedermaus as opposed to The Mark of Zorro, so who KNOWS what time they left.

Oh, god i'm sad .... :-P