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some of the other Stargate SG teams are: SG-3 & 5 (Marine Units), SG-7 (Science Unit), SG-8 (Medical Unit), SG-9 (Diplomatic Unit) and SG11 (Engineering Unit).

In "Children of the Gods" (1st Stargate episodes), Capt. Carter states that it took them 2 years to "MacGyver" a dialing system for the Stargate. "MacGyver" was the name of the 1985-1992 tv show starring Richard Dean Anderson.

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They so are.

The weirdest thing is that, no matter how much a geek I am otherwise, I never really got into the Sci-Fi Channel until Ghost Hunters started a couple years back. Oh, I'd flip over and check it out if nothing else was on, or if it was a horror movie (they often show stuff like Fright Night, The Lost Boys, and so on), but as for their regular fare (Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, so on), it just never stroked my goat... er, whatever. Regardless, Sci-Fi was the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Channel and nothing more -- until they canceled that -- and then it became just "nothing more."

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