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I would like to begin by pointing out that the only connection that you make to the marathon universe is a similarity in the communication devices. Nothing else connects the two universes.
Your comparison of the IRIS images and the marathon art is null due to the fact that they take place in two separate universes. If they are, indeed, the same thing then they must take place in the same universe and therefore halo=marathon. However, Bungie has stated that the Halo universe is NOT the Marathon universe, which you know full well and is why you are arguing that he is in a different universe.
In this same interview (I wish I had the link still saved), Bungie states that the Marathon man is SIMILAR to Master Chief but not the same person. The Marathon man inspired the character of MC but they remain two different persons. Look around for the article as I simply don't have the time to find it but I'm sure after some digging it will come up.
Also, the sun is a blue color in the legendary ending while out sun is red. And last I checked our sun will not be turning blue... now, you could say that since it is a different universe, then it could be a different color. At this point you have disconnected the information and have begun to bend it to fit your ideas. I could then say that in another universe, a planet could just as easily fit this picture somewhere else as yet undiscovered which is just as ludicrous as the sun being a different color. You created the connection between the two points of information, you can't create expectations so that it fits your theory. Similar, yes. Mars in both, no.
As for the time travel. Having been the one who pioneered the time travel theory (look up A Hasty Theory, it dates several years back. Read all of it as I began to forget to update the original post as we developed the theory as a community), I would simply argue that time travel as you view it is incorrect. Two basic views are that you can change the future, or you cause the future. Your view is that he can do something to change the future when, in fact, he may not be able to and may actually cause the future. For example, in Terminator, Kyle Reese causes the future by fathering John Conner, who sends him back in time to begin with (grandfather paradox) or in one of the Harry Potter movies (don't know which one or all the details, the one with the rock and cutting off the birds head... hate HP). Seeing as how we don't know which to be true, writers can use whichever one they want. Bungie could use either here though I believe they would use the second since everyone would be expecting MC to save the day. Also, in my theory I presented evidence to suggest that 343 knew Chief in the past, meaning that he had already gone back and failed to change anything.
In conclusion, radio (most likely an easter egg) does not equal marathon, especially since Bungie says MC and MM are not the same character.
/end thread.
[Edited on 09.09.2009 1:23 AM PDT]