YOU ARE BREATHING, AND YOU ARE ALIVE.

@retrograde-raven a gift for you

Skimmed through the movie and found three decent close-ups of the coordinates while the SM-13 is in motion. Timed it out with a stopwatch and documented the coordinates so I could calculate the distance traveled. The shots are only about 2-3 seconds each, but it's enough to work with.

00:35:56

time: 1.71 seconds

coordinates: 453.30, 247.80 → 453.58, 247.75

distance traveled: 0.284 meters

velocity: 0.166 m/s or 0.598 km/h (0.372 mph)

01:00:51

time: 2.83 seconds

coordinates: 927.62, 802.36 → 925.58, 799.82

distance traveled: 3.258 meters

velocity: 1.151 m/s or 4.144 km/h (2.575 mph)

01:19:15

time: 1.8 seconds

coordinates: 383.88, 614.82 → 382.19, 614.93

distance traveled: 1.694 meters

velocity: 0.941 m/s or 3.388 km/h (2.105 mph)

I'm counting the velocity taken at 00:35:56 as an outlier considering that the SM-13 was going up a considerable incline and was likely struggling. So based on the latter two velocities, the SM-13's average speed is 3.766 km/h, or 2.34 mph, top documented speed is 4.144 km/h or 2.575 mph. About 2.03 and 2.24 knots in nautical terms.

May not seem too impressive, but the Deepsea Challenger (manned submersible that reached the deepest known point on Earth) has a top speed of 3 knots, or 5.56 km/h (3.45 mph).

do y’all understand just how insane this is???? 🤯

but how do they. navigate. space? assuming general scifi rules where interstellar travel is a given due to full star maps and infinite energy recator or smth, how do they navigate and find anything in deep space?

if the stars are gone and so are "habitable" planets... how do they find coordinates for anything? yes the ghost light is there but by the time they get to it, its meaningless. without a star's gravity well, the entire cosmos goes out of predictable orbit patterns, moons are way too small to track even within a solar system radius, much less outside of it. do they just shoot for the last known location of a solar system and hope to catch whatever moons that got slingshotted out into the void and, put a tracker beacon on them?

Just wanted to bring to your attention that the term whump was actually coined by the Stargate fandom specifically to describe making this guy suffer. He is the original Mr. Whump (no that's not his actual name). That's how torturable this guy is.

Everyone say mean things about him.

Here is a non exhaustive list of what he goes through in canon btw:

His parents get crushed to death right in front of him when he is a kid

He is forced to relive the memory of his parents death countless times

He dies and gets resurrected

His wife gets possessed

He fails to save her and she dies in his arms

He dies and gets resurrected again

He gets infected by a virus that makes him act crazy and gets put in an insane asylum

He dies and gets resurrected again

His ex gets possessed

He is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation

He dies and ascends to a higher plane, then gets kicked out of the higher plane and his memory is wiped

He gets kidnapped by a princess

He gets kidnapped by a fish alien

He gets kidnapped and tortured by some terrorists

He gets kidnapped and tortured by another alien

He is driven to insanity by an alien device

He dies and gets resurrected again