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[Stargate] In the movie why didn’t the researchers just do process of elimination to guess the 7th symbol? Why did they need Jackson ?
gpt
Everything about it implied only 6 chevrons were needed. IIRC there's 32 symbols and thousands of combinations. Going through them individually was taking too long so they asked dr Jackson to give it a shot. He got lucky and them picking abydos was even luckier. Though the movie implies only a single destination for the gate and abydos being in a seperate galaxy unlike the show.