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Subject: Elite Drop Pods
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I was just thinking the elites how do they survive landing like that in a drop pod. I mean going from free fall to 0 in oh i estimate 2 miliseconds would be a little bone jarring to say the least. Elites are stronger than humans but there not that strong

  • 07.21.2004 5:10 AM PDT
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their aliens dude. the drop pods probeby have gravity minipulators in it keeping you perfectly still so when you land you dont feel it. like gravity is all around you so you dont feel the impact.

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It doesn't work like that. the only way you could do that is if you pulsed gravity above you just as you impact and even that wouldnt be very effective plus if the timing or controls were of which would be very easy to do as gravity is not a prescision instrument you would get pulled apart

  • 07.21.2004 5:34 AM PDT
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Because it looked cool in the vid. They could throw in technical explanations about covie foam type of support like that hydrostatic gel in the MC's suit that protects the Elites from the landing. But simply put, it was the coolest way to introduce them in the movie, so thye did it.

  • 07.21.2004 5:36 AM PDT
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That wouldnt work either but you are right about being the intro but still i would like to hear some theories.

  • 07.21.2004 5:39 AM PDT
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listen who are you to think you even know anything about the covenant. they are way ahead of us. by millions of years. so my suggestions stfu before you say im wrong becuase its a theory.

  • 07.21.2004 6:07 AM PDT
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Riddle me this, Agamemnon. If you question the Elite's ability to survive, why don't you also question the Helljumpers? I mean, a frail human is much less likely to survive that fall than a powerful Elite.

Just thought I'd throw some realism in here.... = )

  • 07.21.2004 6:08 AM PDT
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dont say it wouldnt work because you dont know -blam!-

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The Covenant are a fictious species. They do not exist. Nor does Plasma Rifle, Plasma Grenade or Plasma Pistol. So why does it matter how they survive, it's a game, and it looks cool.

  • 07.21.2004 6:08 AM PDT
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yes its a game. and bungie said the can survive SO WHAT BUNGIE SAYS IS RIGHT AND YOUR WRONG.

  • 07.21.2004 6:10 AM PDT
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it's a game?

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Subject: davester88 is a -blam!-
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lol

  • 07.21.2004 6:15 AM PDT
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Posted by: Ops Agent 117
Riddle me this, Agamemnon. If you question the Elite's ability to survive, why don't you also question the Helljumpers? I mean, a frail human is much less likely to survive that fall than a powerful Elite.

Just thought I'd throw some realism in here.... = )


The Helljumpers use parachutes to slow their descent and then jetteson their cage, and even then some dont survive.
And yes I know its a game, and i suppose hopping someone would put forward a theory of their own is asking a little to much from you. I am sorry that i asked to much from your poor little brains.
And on the little subject of "me not knowing whether it would work or not" i would say it is a safe bet that i know much more than you do in the area of physics.

  • 07.21.2004 6:20 AM PDT
Subject: davester88 is a -blam!-
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What if I told you it's a game?

  • 07.21.2004 6:22 AM PDT
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Well, then I think they just wear their seatbelt and hope their next generation SRS airbags work properly.

  • 07.21.2004 6:23 AM PDT
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im sorry i gave you my thoery but your little 5 iq brain cant comprehend that

  • 07.21.2004 6:23 AM PDT
Subject: davester88 is a -blam!-
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Posted by: DRWIlL
What if I told you it's a game?


then i would be suprised, is the first one a game, cuz if it is, is it on sale now?

  • 07.21.2004 6:25 AM PDT
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Good question, I'm not sure, ask your mom.

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Posted by: mojonation1487
im sorry i gave you my thoery but your little 5 iq brain cant comprehend that


Just as a warning, I wouldn't even try to battle IQ's with me, it aint a very good idea.

  • 07.21.2004 6:27 AM PDT
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really whats your iq

  • 07.21.2004 6:27 AM PDT
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Posted by: Agamemnon
Posted by: mojonation1487
im sorry i gave you my thoery but your little 5 iq brain cant comprehend that


Just as a warning, I wouldn't even try to battle IQ's with me, it aint a very good idea.


hey -blam!- face, i bet a rub of your moms dick that im smarter then you about anything

  • 07.21.2004 6:28 AM PDT
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My IQ is 150, as such according to the scale of IQ's i am mathematically considered a genius.

  • 07.21.2004 6:29 AM PDT
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wow you just beat me my iq is 148

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Posted by: Agamemnon
My IQ is 150, as such according to the scale of IQ's i am mathematically considered a genius.


come on -blam!-, shhoooot

  • 07.21.2004 6:31 AM PDT
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Maybe the drop pods have some kinda of huge spring or some super padding to help them survive the fall. It is also possible that Elites have much more durable skeletons and/or internal organs. One other thing. In First Strike the spartans free fall into the ground without drop pods they just use trees. Since the Elites have similar armor, one might think, an Elite could survive this fall. One other, other thing. It is possible these "drop" pods don't simply drop but actually have some kind of propulsion to slow them down.

  • 07.21.2004 6:32 AM PDT

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