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On hiding dead bodies:
Posted by: Psuedo
Posted by: teh Chaz
Inside another dead body. It's the last place they'll lookA corpse within a corpse.
CORPSEPTION.Win.
Posted by: Adragalus
Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
Posted by: dangerman1337
Posted by: privet caboose
Doesn't Long night of Solace take place early in August? To my understanding, that supercarrier was the only one around Reach, so why weren't ANY of the SMAC's around to take it out? Sure, I know they were spread out, but obviously most of the fighting was in that area, and it'd be able to turn and face the carrier.
IIRC Depending on the calculations SMACs have gone up to 9.97 TERATONS OF TNT equivlant which is easily two orders of magnitue of say a single digit megaton nuclear weapon so taking the Assault Carrier (it wasn't a Supercarrier IMO)would of been WAY to risky without massive Environmental damage (Reach isn't some random small colony)even the lower end of 49 gigatons is almost an order magnitude compared to the Tsar Bomba which was 50 megatons which could of still done a lot of damage.What people never understand is that just because it has a force equivalent to a nuke going off in terms of MACs and several hundred/thousand nukes going off in terms of SMACs, they don't have a nuclear explosion. The force of an SMAC round is so great, that is simply overpenetrates the target, and hits something else behind it. It also creates massive hull strains on ships, due to the momentum at which it is pushed back, from the fraction of a second the shield will hold the round - this tears them apart, or even makes their hulls shatter.
Just because its force is 50 gigatons of TNT does not mean it will have an impact that looks like 50 gigatons of TNT going off. The force is transferred in a different way entirely.
It's not quite like that.
Any mass traveling at a certain velocity [25,000 kps I believe] will yield it's own weight in TNT when it impacts.
This kinetic energy transfer will be explosive.Laws of momentum and kinetic energy appear to say otherwise. In KE, velocity is the dominating factor of the equation, and mass plays a diminutive role.
In Momentum, (basic equation of momentum), the two parts have equal effect. Half the mass, half the momentum. Double the velocity, double the momentum.
I'm sure I've read somewhere in the Halo lore about hyperkinetic impacts, in which the impactor is travelling at such great velocity that it disintegrates on impact, and generates a lateral blast wave with minimal/no penetration.
Logic would also imply that at the forces involved, the round would shear itself, furthering this idea of hyperkinetic impact.
It's something I keep forgetting to discuss with my Physics tutor. We're doing advanced mechanics, and also in maths, but they're still using the basic laws of motion, and are nowhere near the forces required for an understanding, obviously.