Welcome to Anniversary Edition!
Each week we discuss a film that's celebrating a significant anniversary. In episode 12 Adam, Kieran and Tom walk through a watery circle of mystery as they talk all things Stargate, which is 25 years old this year.
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The answer to Adam's self imposed science challenge:
As promised, here's why Ra is bad at being a villain - a fact-based rant from Adam.
During the 50s and 60s the US Army created "suitcase nukes" designated MK-54 SADMs (Special Atomic Demoliton Munition) that had a payload of 1 kilotons, less then a tenth of the yield of Little Boy that destroyed Hiroshima. They didn't really bother improving this technology due to A) understandable fears that terrorists would get their hands on them, and B) it's a nuke in a bag, job done. Let's assume Jack is lugging one of these around.
Ra's magical mystery mineral (Naquahdah) ampilfies this blast 100x, turning a relatively bleh 1 kiloton into a 100 kiloton blast, which would have still been *hilariously* underpowered for its time. For reference, the 1950s saw the first ever thermonuclear bombs, which began production at 5 megatons.
If Ra succeeds, back at Stargate HQ, underneath Cheyenne Mountain, a naqahdah'd nuke comes through the gate, and rightly obliterates Stargate command. No-one ever finds out what happens, because the place is a fortified, classified, and a bunker inside a mountain. The mountain doesn't move. Casualties: Soldiers, Bad Egyptologists. Good odds at a