- Agustus
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Some can come away from reading "War and Peace" thinking it a simple adventure story, while others can read the ingredients on a gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.
Posted by: SpoonGuard
It would seem gentlemen, that we are on the verge of having nothing left to discuss. Your mutual civility despite wholly disagreeable opinions has rendered any further, unjustifiable, theorizing moot.
I am going to take the side of pro-telepathy (if anything just to stir the pot a bit).
Consider Real-life humanity's successes at wireless energy transfer. While the actual science behind it is way beyond my personal understanding, the important part to know is that it is, in fact, possible to transmit energy instantaneously across space, without the use of physical pathways (i.e. wires). Note that we're not talking about radio waves, but actual electrical signals. The kind that power lightbulbs or, for our purposes, give computer commands.
Imagine the path of technological advancement that this field will take over the next 500 years (to the Halo era). It would explain humanity's military forces' (in the games) ability to communicate instantaneously with eachother on a planetary level.
Now consider, again, the Precursor. I hate to beat a dead horse, but I have to bring this point up again: we already know, from our very limited information, that they possessed a technological capability that the vast majority of humans could not begin to understand. I speak specifically about their ability to manipulate organic matter. Assuming (we all seem to love assumptions so much) that the Precursor were indeed the Flood's creators and assuming that they were built "from the ground up", one could also assume that the Flood's basic DNA was of Precursor premeditation (as Snakie has already suggested).
This would imply that the Precursor could create organic materials (cell organelles, bodily organs, etc) for any purpose imaginable. It would all come down to simple genetic coding. Considering their technological advancement in other fields, would it be such a stretch to imagine them designing an organic version of a piece of technology which we, real humans, have already created, 500 years before the games are even supposed to take place? Not in my mind.
I realize I am only playing logic games at this point but (and I'm sure Agustus will disagree with me on this) I find Occam's Razor in my favor on this one.
Actualy theres alot of logic in your conclusion. But im just like you going to take a different point.
Like you showed us theres much technology today thats leading to things that we can only imagine. But my point is just because in real life thats going on dosent mean the same in the Halo universe. Its estamated humans in 75-80 years will begin fighting with laser based weapons. Yet in the Halo universe where still stuck on guns and ammo (exept for the spartan laser). My point is you can't interpret halo in that way. You have to go with what is given to you in the games. And the games show little evidence of telepathic communication. Now there is some evidence, just not much. And that can be explained in a different light that telepathic communication.
Now to the user who replyed after you. You make sense about your talk of AI's. I suggest you make a thread about it (due to the fact it has little to do with this one).
[Edited on 07.17.2009 9:58 AM PDT]