- JDYeash937 MkII
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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: opogjijijp
Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
If it truly as 27km long, I don't think even an SMAC can knock it out.
It's about the same size as Unyielding Heirophant which had a shield strong enough to 'repel the collision of a small moon'.
**WARNING - SCIENCE**
We use Earth's moon as an example. It has an orbit speed of around 1022m/s and a mass of 7.3477x10^22kg.
If Heirophant was to place itself in the path of Luna's orbit, it would subject itself to an impact energy equivalent to 3.837x10^28J of energy - roughly equivalent to a 9,171 Petaton detonation of TNT - or 9 quintillion tonnes of TNT.
An SMAC has an impact force of between 5 and 50 gigatons of TNT (depends on your calculation). Even using the larger value for impact force, it would take well over 180 million SMAC rounds to do the same damage - and even then, it would still have shields, or at least hull.
In short, no, the UNSC cannot take it out, without the slipspace bomb method they used.
yeah, but I wouldn't call Luna small. If we use Phobos, it's a mere 5 teratons. If Deimos, it's only 300 gigatons. But there's other considerations that may be more important than just energy. That was nothing more than a quick calculation that I did this morning.
Luna was the only moon I knew the name of, and it's obviously nowhere near small - it's around a fifth the size of Earth.
Energy calculations are just really to give a layman's on the situation, because everyone can understand numbers, if maybe not to such scale. Not to mention, everyone's heard of 'The Moon', and maybe Io if they were paying attention in Halo 2. Figures are to be taken as a brief example, and not at face value.
But there are a lot of assumptions I put into it myself - that the Supercarrier actually IS 27km long, that it has the same shielding system and power output as that of the Unyielding Heirophant, and also that it was stationary upon impact.
I think the main point with being struck by a moon, is that everyone on board would be killed by the acceleration provided by being hit by a moon, even if the collision itself was actually deflected by the shield. Laws of momentum.