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Posted by: Skorpion_08
YOU IDIOT.... HAL DOESNT KILL FLOOD...IT KILLS THERE FOOD WITH A SONICE BOOM...WITH A RADIUS OF 10,000 LIGHT YEARS..... WHICH MEANS EVERYTHING WITHIN THAT RANGE IS DESTROYED BY ULTRASONIC SOUND...OF SUFFICIENT BIO-MASS ANYWAY (TO SUSTAIN FLOOD) SO I -blam!-RACH MIGHT SURVIVE BUT ITS NOT EXACTLY GOING TO HELP THE FLOOD SPREED IS IT.
Well, then I don't have anything to worry about. My homeworld's surrounded by vacuum, so no sound can reach it. Lol.

  • 06.24.2004 10:54 PM PDT
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It plays Richard Simmons tapes on it like a giant plasma TV. That would kill all Sentient life. ((And I think 343 likes it!))

  • 06.24.2004 10:59 PM PDT
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*sigh*
After reading through the whole thread, I feel obligated to point some things out.Posted by: vcxtrenton
Hey, I know the answer! You learn that halo is a weapon and that it kills all life within like 25000 light years (very far) in the level two betrayals, this is also where you learn HOW they do it. Cortana tells you to destroy the 3 phase-pulse generators that "amplify halo's signal" and give it some huge range. So, these generators are the actual weapons. I'm assuming the generators just produce large amounts of gamma radiation, that is the only thing that would travel through space and be serious enough to kill the life. Gamma radiation kills all life if theres enough energy.

Now, two things to think about for halo's "weapon":
1. Since nothing travels faster than the speed of light, it would take gamma radiation, or anything, atleast 25,000 years before it killed all life, so we wouldn't need to worry =D.
2. I saw this on tv, astronomers have recently been finding gamma radiation bursts throughout the sky that are immensely powerful. These bursts seem to appear randomly in the sky with no way to tell where it came from. Astronomers are also wondering if one might happen near us. You never know, halo could be for real =P. Thank god Master Chief and all you 1337's out there saved us from this.


The key phrase Trenton used is "enough energy". I'm sure any of you who've passed Jr. High science know what the inverse square rule is, what a lightyear is, and how much 25000 is. It takes quite a bit of high-energy light to kill a human. (Just FYI, it does that by breaking DNA and other proteins apart.) For the concentration at 25000 light years to kill human-like stuff that way, Halo would probably have to consume Threshold and its whole star and convert it entirely into energy. A sphere 50000 lightyears accross has a whole lot of area for that energy to be spread over sorta evenly (with ripple patterns due to gravity) and still be intense enough to kill me.

Get your facts strait, dude. Gamma bursts aren't news, astronomers looked at them and scratched thier heads for years. It's the explanations we've come up with that are news.

Cortana might have used the word "signal" instead of "shock" or something because Halo is selective; it doesn't kill stuff by hard irradiation, that would take too much energy. The crucial piece of data was called the index, not the key or password. I think that however Halo selectively "cuts hairs", it needs data on whatever kind of haircut it's to give. I think that Guilty Spark said the galaxy would be lacking life "quite soon". If he's talking and thinking on something near our timescale, 50000 years probably isn't "quite soon". If the Pillar of Autumn can travel faster than light through something called subspace, why not a "signal" carefully tuned to selectively destroy certain life forms in realspace? Whatever it is, it probably isn't ordinary light. That would require a lot of energy and it wouldn't be very selective; you'd probably be better off sending world-glassing automata with hyperdrives to sweep the galaxy, they can do it faster and more efficiently.

Oh, yeah. By the way, light slows down for atoms too- not just gravity. As light passes through something like air or glass, it hits atoms. When it hits them, it's absorbed for a very short but nonzero time before being belched out again as the electrons return to thier proper valence shells. Index of refraction is a measure of that slowing, remember?

[Edited on 6/24/2004 11:25:58 PM]

  • 06.24.2004 11:20 PM PDT
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[quote]Posted by: Final Spartan
Because the person who wants to activate Halo wouldn't be destroyed. He's 343 and he's a robot. robots= non sentient life.

If you paid attention you'd know 343 didnt make halo hes trying to activate it . The forerunners made it and then created 343 to watch over the ringworld halo until they returned.

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  • 06.25.2004 5:29 AM PDT
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Halo has already been fired once so it would be improbable to use up Threshold and its star, so the power must come from the halo itself. You could theorise that the generators are used to step up the 'pulse' and make it fatal to sentient life.

Also someone mentioned that the flood could use corpses, well they can, but if the brain had been liquified then no they probably couldn't as they would not be able to assume control of the body.

  • 06.25.2004 5:47 AM PDT
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i didnt even think about slipspace. halo might have slipspace generators whose effective range is only the 25000 lightyears, so it amplifies its signal (however selectivie the signal is or whatever TYPE of signal) and then sends it through slipspace to the destinations and lives indicated by the index. this goes around the whole problem of "nothing travels faster than light" because it can get to the extent of it range much more quickly without losing signal strength.

  • 06.25.2004 2:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: Teacosy Head
Halo has already been fired once so it would be improbable to use up Threshold and its star, so the power must come from the halo itself. You could theorise that the generators are used to step up the 'pulse' and make it fatal to sentient life.

um, dude, are you holding out on us? since when has halo been fired? My personal opinion is that halo releases a virus or quantum beam specifically coded to only destroy life forms of a certain complexity. This is potentially the ultimate weapon, because you could code it to any dna blueprint, like make it target only one specific race. the forerunners probably left the setting on "destroy all sentient life", hence the point of the weapon.

  • 06.25.2004 3:36 PM PDT
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Forumrunner has made the most sense so far. I really like the hypothesis of the "energy" travelling through subspace.

blammit, why must we be kept hanging? Why will nobody tell us the 7ru7h?

*sigh*...

  • 06.25.2004 4:35 PM PDT
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I just realised this, also:

Library, 2: A collection of cloned DNA sequences whose location and identity can be established by mapping the genome of a particular organism.

The interesting thing about that is the key word location. Is it quite possible that The Index is actually a key, but not just any key, a key with a 'harddrive' of sorts, that can determine which and what and where the life that Halo is supposed to destroy is?

Very interesting.

[Edited on 6/25/2004 6:04:29 PM]

  • 06.25.2004 5:28 PM PDT
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FourmRunner, O_O my god you put alotta thot into this (starts worshipping ForumRunner) dude ur awesome! skorpion_08 if u read this STOP TYPING IN CAPS ALL THE TIME (like this) AND STOP BEING A TOTAL MORON!!!!!!!

  • 06.25.2004 8:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: frankyg
i just wonder why the covenant didn't know about the flood, i mean all there technology is forrunner adapted. i guess they were too stupid and curious.

maybe the means of the weopon were to gather all the smart beings in the area on halo and let them duke it out w/ the flood, LOL
they arrived when the pillar of autumn did so they didn't know that it had flood on it

  • 06.27.2004 2:49 PM PDT
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Posted by: banksboy51
Posted by: Teacosy Head
Halo has already been fired once so it would be improbable to use up Threshold and its star, so the power must come from the halo itself. You could theorise that the generators are used to step up the 'pulse' and make it fatal to sentient life.

um, dude, are you holding out on us? since when has halo been fired? My personal opinion is that halo releases a virus or quantum beam specifically coded to only destroy life forms of a certain complexity. This is potentially the ultimate weapon, because you could code it to any dna blueprint, like make it target only one specific race. the forerunners probably left the setting on "destroy all sentient life", hence the point of the weapon.
what the hell is a quantum beam

  • 06.27.2004 2:51 PM PDT

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