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Subject: how many halos?
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The runners are good but not good enough to know where every one is going to be in 2000000 years.

  • 06.29.2004 7:16 PM PDT
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u dont no that

  • 06.29.2004 7:21 PM PDT

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Okay let me inform some of you.

The halo story takes place in the milkyway galaxy because travelling to another galaxy would be difficult (or a very very long trip) even by the ficticious "slip-space" method. (hey maybe the Forerunners knew how but the distances are truly astronomical).

The dimensions of the Milky Way are 100,000 light years in diameter. 2,000 light years in thickness (i can't remember the thickness of the galactic center but it's more than 2,000 l.y. besides nothing could reside there anyway).

Okay now 343 GS said that the ring had an effective radius of 25,000 light years (meaning a diameter of 50,000 l.y.) and that the galaxy would be devoid of life after the other installations follwed suit. Now if two Halos went off (and were spaced apart just enough) the damage would span from one side to the other but only 50,000 light years wide. So another two spaced the same way but perpendicular two the first two would pretty much do it.
The answer then is 4 Halo's (that also keeps with the ring's # in Halo CE, ...'04). Granted there would be pockets left untouched but the amount of area left would not equal the coverage of a fith ring.

FYI, the Earth is 25,000 light years from the center of our galaxy and if you have any other questions you can PM me, I am a physics student heading into astro-physics/nautics here in massachusettes.

  • 06.29.2004 7:41 PM PDT
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wow u must like space

  • 06.29.2004 7:46 PM PDT
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there is at least 3 more cause the halo in the first game was halo 04

  • 06.29.2004 7:48 PM PDT
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did u just read his explanitation dude

  • 06.29.2004 7:49 PM PDT
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As I said earlier there has to be nine to completly cover the Galaxy. you figure a Galaxy is 100,000 light years. But it's a sphere. Basically it comes out to nine rings.

  • 06.29.2004 7:51 PM PDT
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It wont even matter there could be even more powerful Halos out there and still the forerunners probally put them in other galaxys as well if the covies only found a little info on them.

  • 06.29.2004 7:54 PM PDT
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i actually heard somewhere that it was seven Halo's. I cant remember where, but for some reason remember reading and hearing that it was seven. And with 343GS saying a radius of 25,000, that WOULD mean a diameter of 50,000. in a circle. it wouldnt take nine.

  • 06.29.2004 7:55 PM PDT

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okay if you don't know what you're talking about then keep quiet (or like I said you can PM me with a question OR do your own research)

the galaxy is NOT a sphere. It is a disk 2,000 light years in thickness and 100,000 light years in diameter.

I guess 343GS meant that Halo has an effective radius 25, 000 light years and 2,000 in thickness (if Halo affected a sphere it would be overkill cause there is nothing past the 2000 light year thickness of our galaxy.

and to answer your question: yeah i like space... a lot. I'm more interested in Orbital Mechanics for other various reasons.

anyways here's a few more facts for ya.

The visible edge of the univers is 15 billion light years away.
The solar neighborhood around us (lets say 220 light years from the sun) encompass only one part in ten million of the stars in our galaxy).
The supposed nearest galaxy (Andromeda) is 2 million light years from ours. And the furthest several billion (edge of the universe kind of distance).
The closest star (alpha centauri) is about 4 and half light years away.
There are clusters of glaxies meaning that some are far closer to each other than others are(some even collide!).

  • 06.29.2004 8:32 PM PDT

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