Would it be possible to...

[A Trite Pun]

open a massive gateway to space and let the entire Earth's atmosphere be sucked into the great black void?

Also, what would happen to the person who opens a normal gateway to outer space if he/she was standing right in front?

For that matter, why can't one open a gateway to the core of the earth or the bottom of an ocean.  There is so much potential for awesome destruction using gateways, and no one in the books considers them  :-[

[McCBass]

I s'pose it would, theoretically, be possible, but I'm pretty sure you have to be close to a gateway to open it: thusly sucked into space, etc.

[LemonPastie]

I could imagine it to be a great way to fish, set up a huge net above water, open a gateway in the middle of the ocean and catch all the fish that get sucked through, the water just flows back into the ocean.

 

I suppose you could even throw a "attract all fish in the area" weave, just like the insect ones we see. That would make it a lot more profitable.

[Icedragon]

profitable? maybe for the Kin, Aes Sedai dont need more money

[ROB_88]

screw fishing, just use it to flood the Blight and kill all those trollocs and whatever else is there

[thevillagecouncil]

you have to be familiar with an area before you can open a gateway to it. are you familiar with the center of the earth? probably not. Now, skimming on the other hand... you could drain the world's oceans into the blackness with that. Not recommended doing the same for the Earth's core...

[Durinax]

you have to be familiar with an area before you can open a gateway to it. are you familiar with the center of the earth? probably not. Now, skimming on the other hand... you could drain the world's oceans into the blackness with that. Not recommended doing the same for the Earth's core...

but you can open a gateway on the surface to the said locations and push people through

[Bowden]

you have to be familiar with an area before you can open a gateway to it. are you familiar with the center of the earth? probably not. Now, skimming on the other hand... you could drain the world's oceans into the blackness with that. Not recommended doing the same for the Earth's core...

 

actually, you have to be familiar with the area you're opening a gateway from.

 

also, remember that this is the 3rd age, for all intents and purposes it's medieval. they don't know about the vacuum of space.

[Arath Faringal]

you have to be familiar with an area before you can open a gateway to it. are you familiar with the center of the earth? probably not. Now, skimming on the other hand... you could drain the world's oceans into the blackness with that. Not recommended doing the same for the Earth's core...

 

Skimming wouldn't work either.  You need to know your destination well for that, so unless you're familiar with the bottom of the ocean or the center of the earth, you wouldn't be able to open those gateways.

[saxedspc]

profitable? maybe for the Kin, Aes Sedai dont need more money

 

Everybody always needs more money, even rich folks.  That's how they STAY rich.

 

[FarShainMael]

What do those Deathgates do? (KoD Ch19)

 

[Vassili]

I've always kind of wondered about this one. Logically, if Dragonmount is the heighest point in the world, where the air is too thin to breath (20k ft +), then when Rand opened a gateway to it from north of Eboa Dar, he should have been sucked through. Dragonmount may not be the vacuum of space, but the forces involved would still have been enormous. I suspect there is something built in to the gateway mechanic that prevents pressure differences from taking affect. But even then, shouldn't Rand himself have gotten the bends?

[Vermillion]

Does the enviroment actually come through gateways?  Light does but I dont ever remember water, air or earth coming through.

 

[Suttree]

What do those Deathgates do? (KoD Ch19)

 

 

Wot Wiki

 

Deathgates are a weave of the One Power using Spirit, Earth, and Fire that opens and closes gateways very rapidly, sending them speeding along the ground. Any Shadowspawn that pass through these Deathgates die because they are constructs, and cannot survive such a trip. The destination shifts every time a Deathgate opens, and the destinations themselves are random, preventing too many Shadowspawn corpses from accumulating in a single area. Like with a typical gateway, a Deathgate's size is determined by the amount of Power the user can hold.

[RembrandtQ.Einstein]

Maybe that's some of what happened during the breaking.

[Hadilmir]

But even then, shouldn't Rand himself have gotten the bends?

He pressurized the air around him.

[Ozzie_aiel]

Open a gateway partially in the ocean, and viola! you can quickly fill your new swimming pool!