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For the sake of this response, which will be the last I bother writing to you (unless you start providing counter-arguments that actually address my own in their entirety)Fine, good riddance. You the only one who understands your deluded "linked but have nothing to do with each other" argument anyway, so there's no chance anyone is going to be able address your arguments more than I already have - which is pretty exhaustive.
Excuse me, which dependent sentence?This one.
I haven't cut out anything, I address both sentences of the quote directly.*Now you're just blatantly lying, and you didn't even bother covering it up.
Yes, and that hypocrite is you.Ouch, didn't see that one coming. Can you be a little less predictable? I need some excitement here.
I am treating it as such, as opposed to theoretical/hypothetical, astrophysical cosmology which you, uneducated on the matter, wrongfully skew into a basis for your self-created theories on how a sci-fi FPS game's portal technology works.Actually, I'm a theoretical/hypothetical, astrophysical cosmology major, and I would say I am educated enough to write a rough supposition on how the portal works, especially with the evidence at hand, that you so conveniently ignore I've written. Furthermore, how educated is it to simply repeat "anything's possible" every time the blue cloud comes up?
Also, how convenient that you falsely condemn me for cutting something out of my own response (since I did not)See a few quotes above.*
yet you cut the majority of my explanations out and simply respond to the opening sentence with a passive, and very out-of-context remark. Great work, your counter-argument is so very credible. [/sarcasm]**You seem to have a blind spot when it comes to the truth. I have responded to everything, and I thought I knew you could read well enough to see that. As I said in my first post in this conversation, I was only going to quote bits in order to show where I was in your post while keeping the size down. When you repeat yourself - which you often do since 50% of the new material in your posts is "I never said it was Mars" and "address my nonsensical 'linked, but not really' argument or I'll plug my ears and go 'lalalalala'" - I had merged the topic with its other iterations. Now that you've started including multiple topics per paragraph, you can see I am quoting more specifically, wasting space just to address your potshots at my character.
For the sake of your apparent Alzheimer's, I'll say once again, I never said it was floating near MarsYeah, I know. Your purpose in arguing that I didn't have any proof it was Mars has nothing to do with Mars. I'm less than a quarter of the way through your double post and I'm already sick of this bull. See ****.
As for Cortana not recognizing the constellations***Cortana sees what the Chief sees. That is obvious. The Chief looks out of the shattered hull. There're the ending constellations. There is a break between the end of Cortana and the beginning of Halo, during which the MC flies from High Charity, through space, to the replacement 04, and doubtlessly sees the sky a few times during the escape from 04. There're the Ark constellations. Cortana is perfectly capable of stitching the recordings together into a panoramic view. The argument that she was "too busy"is ridiculous, given that she can multitask recording camera feed to a subroutine that would take very little processing power, and an AI would not need commit much thought to something so simple as intra-solar travel (simply steering into the portal) even under the given circumstances - whether they are in a rush or not makes no different to the amount of processing power it takes to accelerate the ship. Secondly, given that even the simple helmets worn by the marines in Halo 1 automatically record what the soldier sees, it is idiotic to assume a Spartan II's helmet cam would not. Thus Cortana would not even have to devote the slightest thought to recording the constellations, and is perfectly capable of - and has plenty of time to devote to - comparing the constellations after your crazy 100% load from driving the frigate. This should have dawned on you numerous times while writing that paragraph, and I find it amazing that I have to keep writing whole sections of my own to point out the obvious.
Lastly, while AI have emotions, that doesn't mean they suddenly become stupid. I'm breaking out the analogies, since you seem to have selective amnesia of human nature. You're lost in the woods. You're crippled and incapable of moving, but by some chance you have a bright, red flag and a tall pole to hoist it up. You know there's a very slim chance of being found, even with the flag up. Do you A: hoist the flag, thereby giving rescuers a better chance of finding you, however small? Or do you B: keep the flag in your pocket, as good as actively hiding from anyone coming to help? I know that the flag can't be seen by anyone 50 miles away in the city. I know that you can't survive more than a few days, as opposed to indefinitely in cryo-stasis. I know the rescuers think you're dead already, and have sent few, if any people to look for you. So you don't need to waste both our time pointing out the surface faults and pretending they invalidate the entire argument. That's your answer.
Light travels faster than sound/electronic/radio signals
First of all, sound is not an electromagnetic wave, and wouldn't travel in a vacuum. Secondly, radio waves are, and they do travel the same speed as light. At least try to know what the hell you're arguing about.
Read above. I am not arguing that it is Mars, and you are, rather than addressing me, are still addressing the OP. Please correct this in future responses.****"Really? Well, not once in this entire response did you provide any kind of valid counter-argument to the theory that Mars was the planet indicated in Iris, and subsequently, Halo 3."
You know what that sounds like? That sounds like you're saying I didn't provide any evidence that it wasn't Mars. By providing the evidence that you ask for, and subsequently defending that evidence, as an corollary to my original counter-theory I AM addressing the OP's theory. No one can address you because you are only saying they are "linked," which is nothing but a pile of bs to hide behind and does really mean anything. All I can do to address you is to counter the evidence and arguments that you have brought up, despite how much it indirectly addressing the OP displeases you. If you can come up with an outline to arguing against something so purposefully ambiguous as "they are linked" I'd be happy to argue it!
However, keep in mind that astronomical accuracies are not 100% in Halo, either.Given your current track record, I thought you couldn't come up with lamer excuses. I overestimated you again.
This isn't the first time I said this. I said this in my original quote to you.The only two instances of "link" on page 114 are used by me. The two times you mentioned "connection" and "related" your statements imply you think Mars and the planet are the same. If it is true you really meant "linked," you need to learn to write clearly. See ****.
I'm not surprised that you missed it, however, as you seem very keen on skipping everything after the first few sentences of my paragraphs.See **.
Every single piece of content we got from IRIS (which, by the way, was written by Bungie/Microsoft, and only produced by a separate company), had an important meaning.This too? I didn't see that in the game.
What happened earlier in the book does not directly correlate with what happened at the end of the book. It was a new, interlinked pattern specifically because they now held the sole duty of protecting the micro-Dyson Sphere in the center.Yes it does. No matter what alignment they are in, one Sentinel alone cannot break the crust of a planet. As earlier in the book, the Sentinels would combine to fire a stronger beam. Every Sentinel in the structure firing on its own could not break the surface, hence pattern.
However, you ignored the first part of my quote. They noticed the patterns before they even used magnification, which means that it was visible to the naked eye at a distance safe from the surface's explosion.I did not. As I keep saying, and you keep ignoring, the pattern of the structure is not visible to the naked eye from that distance. The only reason the a pattern was visible was because not every Sentinel was firing individually, but combining beams. I'll say it again: a diamond is a crystalline structure too; a diamond can be cut into a sphere, but do you see the crystalline structure or a curved edge? What does the horizon of a planet look like? A curved edge.
Nowhere from page 376 to 378 does it say they saw the Sentinels themselves with the naked eye. "'We've seen that before,' Lash said. "Combined drone fire.'" Combined "a blazing pattern emerged beneath: crosses and lines and dots." Sentinels themselves do not blaze, their beams do. You are suggesting that the crew saw three-meter-long rods from the moon with the naked eye? Redundant question! You're nuts!