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Subject: Bodys floating on water?

In halo 3 when you are killed, your body floats. That's kind of funny because your suits is really hevy (made of methal gel etc). How can your body float if it has a weight of 0,5 ;1 tonne?

  • 11.07.2009 7:45 AM PDT

I'd like to be half-man half-tree in an octopus' garden in the shade.

Because it's a game.

  • 11.07.2009 7:46 AM PDT
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Technically, because the gel layer in your suit can adjust your density, making you able to float. We know that the Chief can sink from Halo 2, when he jumped off the Prophet of Regret's base on Delta Halo, but the suit likely makes you float so you won't suffocate under water and make it easier for search teams to find downed SPARTANS.

  • 11.07.2009 7:48 AM PDT

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how does a cruise ship float on the ocean if it is several tons?

also, it's a video game where you fight aliens attacking Earth, I think you can let the floating bodies argument go.

[Edited on 11.07.2009 7:50 AM PST]

  • 11.07.2009 7:50 AM PDT

Posted by: westpointusma15
how does a cruise ship float on the ocean if it is several tons?


The empty space i.e. air balances the density out to float-able [<1].

  • 11.07.2009 7:55 AM PDT

a cruise ship floats in water because of the Buoyancy also called -blam!-é d'archimede. The apparent inmerced weight=weight-displaced fluid. However,a spartan is really heavy and the volume is not enouf to make it float. In fact i will do the maths... in my next poast i will tell if a spartan can float .

  • 11.07.2009 7:58 AM PDT

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Posted by: Deathtrap462
Because it's a game.

or its full of air

Lol. Inflatable Chief.

  • 11.07.2009 8:07 AM PDT

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Posted by: westpointusma15
how does a cruise ship float on the ocean if it is several tons?


The empty space i.e. air balances the density out to float-able [<1].

Friend, you are very, very close but you are wrong. It's called weight dispersal. You can make a boat out of cement, but you can't make it a block and say it'll float.

What would happen if you froze time and took a big block of water out, let's say a 2x2 ft block? The surrounding water would flood in to balance itself back out. Same with air pressure, which is why we have bubbles.

Now lets say you took that same chunck of water back out but put an empty box that was a bit taller inside of it. The water would apply pressure to the box. So if you have all of that weight in the water spread out, you are taking a chunk out of the water but the water is applying opposing force to you to balance it out. K?
If you have 17 tons of steel on the water spread out over, say, an area 300 ft by 120 ft, then your good. And yes, the air inside of the boat that is in fact below the water level does help to lift it.


[Edited on 11.07.2009 8:12 AM PST]

  • 11.07.2009 8:09 AM PDT

Posted by: Deathtrap462
Because it's a game.


This...

  • 11.07.2009 8:13 AM PDT

The last time I tried to make a quote, a car smashed through my wall and the tire hit my grandmother in the other room. But for those of you who can haz once more between five, I say it will be five between seven divided by zero multiplied by Chick Norass and Broce Tee.

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Posted by: Deathtrap462
Because it's a game.


This...

So you didn't choose the uber elite h4x0rz smarts post I made?
Sadface. :(

  • 11.07.2009 8:26 AM PDT

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Wrong forum...this is reach forum not halo 3 forum

  • 11.07.2009 8:28 AM PDT

Just because something is very heavy doesnt mean it is more dense than water. I mean it is 550 years in the future.

  • 11.07.2009 8:54 AM PDT

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  • 11.07.2009 9:07 AM PDT

Your suit has less mass than the ocean so it floats.

Buoyancy.

  • 11.07.2009 9:08 AM PDT
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why can tankers, aircraft carriers float? its magic my friend. pure magic.

  • 11.07.2009 9:11 AM PDT

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why can tankers, aircraft carriers float? its magic my friend. pure magic.

Voodoo. That's why I refuse to travel by boat or plane. They're fueled by Satan.

  • 11.07.2009 9:12 AM PDT

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Then there are the people who poop in the mash potatoes. Those people get launched out on their asses.

Already been discussed

  • 11.07.2009 9:20 AM PDT
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it's just a game and you don't have to take it so seriusly and beacause it is magic.

  • 11.07.2009 9:24 AM PDT