I don't think they actually knew there were supposed to be seven. The cartouche had the six glyphs all nicely contained, and who cares about that little decorative thingie. I don't think they knew it was for "six points in space plus point of origin" until Daniel figured it out -- they were all a little gobsmacked when he presented, like it was the first time they'd seen it. I think they just knew it did something, and maybe was a doorway to something (heaven), but didn't grasp the mechanics.
(Of course if they hadn't buried the video of the first Langford/Littlefield experiments... And let's just handwave how they managed to light upon seven, in a combination that actually went somewhere and hadn't been lost to stellar drift yet.)
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Date: 2006-06-08 05:46 pm (UTC)(Of course if they hadn't buried the video of the first Langford/Littlefield experiments... And let's just handwave how they managed to light upon seven, in a combination that actually went somewhere and hadn't been lost to stellar drift yet.)