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Subject: Is the Space elevator where we thought is was?

Duracell.
I don't keep going and going and going and...
but i Start, and just don't Stop.

So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.

Ok to start. this IS NOT MY IDEA, i found it on a post to one of my videos on H.B.O. but i thought it was ingenious and decided to share it with you all.


Remember how on the Halo 2 map Terminal there was a map of New Mombasa? And on that map there was a big black dot with ring roads all around it(circled in Red)We all assumed this to be the tether for the space elevator.

Now what if we were wrong? What if that was just a city center and the little island at the top right(circled in green) was the space elevator?

The opening cutscene for ODST is evidence of this. if you look at the 3D map of New Mombasa the tether is on an island off on it's own.

Post your thoughts!

  • 06.29.2009 9:07 AM PDT
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J D O S H

That is cool.

  • 06.29.2009 9:09 AM PDT

Sgt. Johnson: Now listen up! Back in my day, we didn't have fancy tanks! We had sticks. Two stick and a rock for the entire platoon! And we had to share the rock! You should consider yourself very lucky marines!

Nice find

  • 06.29.2009 9:12 AM PDT

It looks like neither to me. In the 3-D map, the main land is sort of sticking out right beside the island where the space elevator is. In the Halo 2 map, the 2 spots you mentioned don't look like that.

[Edited on 06.29.2009 9:14 AM PDT]

  • 06.29.2009 9:13 AM PDT

Duracell.
I don't keep going and going and going and...
but i Start, and just don't Stop.

So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.

maybe so. just throwing the idea out there

  • 06.29.2009 9:16 AM PDT

"Lets just say hes a couple hippies short of a protest"(TM)

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what is the space elevator

  • 06.29.2009 9:16 AM PDT

Posted by: mast3rlinkx
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing?Then whence cometh evil?Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?"

Sorry to be a noob but whats a space elevator or does the name say it all?

  • 06.29.2009 9:16 AM PDT

Posted by: mast3rlinkx
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing?Then whence cometh evil?Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?"

I now know what the space elevator is i used the search bar.

  • 06.29.2009 9:21 AM PDT

Duracell.
I don't keep going and going and going and...
but i Start, and just don't Stop.

So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.

Posted by: Death Stalker64
what is the space elevator

Facepalm

  • 06.29.2009 9:26 AM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
I'd love to be a 10 year old and tell my mom I'm going on an adventure out into the world catching Pokemon, with her full support. Never mind the fact that there are rapists, criminals, and murders out there, or the fact that I may get killed by a Pokemon.

Luckily I have Pikachu.

Bungie redesigned New Mombasa.

[Edited on 06.29.2009 9:31 AM PDT]

  • 06.29.2009 9:29 AM PDT

I'm guessing that the island on the first map could be the ONI building that we saw in the trailer.

The space elevator is an elevator that lifts stuff into space... If you've watched the opening scene of the game it is the huge tower right next to the Prophet of Regret's ship. They are meant to eliminate the need for costly rocket launches from the surface of the earth (because it wastes so much fuel to escape Earth's gravity). A real space elevator in the near future is actually a likely possibility, within the next 50 years.

  • 06.29.2009 9:34 AM PDT

Duracell.
I don't keep going and going and going and...
but i Start, and just don't Stop.

So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.

maybe it is the ONI alpha site, good point never thought of that.

  • 06.29.2009 9:38 AM PDT

Haters are going to hate.
Praisers are going to praise.

The Bungie Forums are what keeps my mind sharp and my fingers active, between writing my own movie scripts, drawing, and studying industrial design. At the moment I'm working on miniatures for a short movie that I'll hopefully be able to film once I've saved up for a camera... That's me, with the mug, trying to have a conversation with Konoko.

Wow, nice find. But... Ive always thought that the level "Metropolis" in Halo 2 ended here, with Chief looking out, towards the orbital elevator (?).

  • 06.29.2009 9:38 AM PDT

Posted by: Death Stalker64
what is the space elevator


It's an elevator...that takes you into space. Hence the name.

  • 06.29.2009 9:57 AM PDT

Duracell.
I don't keep going and going and going and...
but i Start, and just don't Stop.

So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.

Posted by: the real Janaka
Wow, nice find. But... Ive always thought that the level "Metropolis" in Halo 2 ended here, with Chief looking out, towards the orbital elevator (?).


you've got a point, and as they didn't really give us a point of reference for where the elevator was they can move it where ever they want....

  • 06.29.2009 9:59 AM PDT