- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Nedus
YOU werent there either!!yeah fire is understandable,but cavemen figured out how to create atmosphere and giant gravity-creating machines,and build a GIANT ring like 5000 miles across,and then launch it into space??yeah thats SOOO believable,isnt it?
1. Gravity can be "generated" by Halo spinning around its axis, the trick would be to get the spinning motion to produce ~1G normal, and to sustain the motion as the rotational energy is leeched away from micro meteorite collisions etc. We can create artifical gravity through this method right now.
2. I would imagine that it would only be practical to build a Halo structure in space. it would require a phenominal amount of raw material to create however, one would hope that the Forerunners had some form of matter conversion technology so that planetary bodies could be converted into the appropriate materials rather than requiring "mining" of the appropriate materials
3. Atmosphere is a collection of gases at various ratios, bound to a celestial body by gravity. Atmospheric gasses are something that is well within our ability to mix as we please. Chemical reactions can greate gasses we need as well as harvesting them from the atmosphere. Halo is in orbit with the gas giant Threshold, a vast resource of matter and interesting gasses just waiting to be harvested. Microbes can convert (what we consider) noxious gasses into more acceptable forms (as our very own Earth demonstrates) so creating an atmosphere for a ring world is no where near outsides the bounds of possibility.
4. Lets not forget that we have terraforming that also needs to be done to create habital land masses, and considering the planning that went into these masses with the "artifical" structures that start up top and continue down into the recesses of Halos subterranean machinery, its something to be impressed by (if we assumed this was real).
Right now our limitations are on the scale on which these things must be done. Both in time and resources, and the correct technologies to create them, and set the plan in motion. We are so hampered by the economic concerns of building, and researching new technologies (not to mention the egotistical side of research as well) that many grand things that we have the technology to build, or the ability to research, simply wont be beacause of the cost involved to do so. If only the cost of things such as these could be considered in non monetary terms and perhaps a few egos being suppressed then we could achieve so much more. Of course we can get wildly off topic proceeding along this tangent :)
And exactly how did the Forerunners suddenly become cavemen? Considering the (now) artifacts that they created, they are acheivements are hardly on the cavemen level. (If we supsend our disbelief for one second and assume that this is all real).