- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: mindofarock
it wasn't 100 million miles. that's not that much in space. it was 25000 light years, right? correct me if i'm wrong.
You are correct. The Earth orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 1 Astronomical Unit = 1AU, which is approximately 93,000,000 miles. This is, astronomically speaking, about 100,000,000 miles. Mars is out around 140,000,000 (I think). So, a Halo installation with a 100 million mile range might not even wipe out life in the host solar system! For the engineering-minded out there: light, traveling at 186,000 miles/sec. (300,000 kilometers/sec.) can do 100,000,000 miles in 537 seconds, which is almost exactly 9 minutes. So, 100,000,000 miles (sounds big, doesn't it) is almost exactly 9 light-minutes, which is about 0.000017 light-years (doesn't sound so big, does it?) There is a BIG difference between 0.000017 light years and 25,000 light years. Guilty Spark said 25,000 light years.
Posted by: Spartan_28
ok first off. there are only 200 spartans not 3920. 2nd If any of you read the books, Halo2's plot is partly on earth and partly master chief attempting to Capture a covenant flagship and sneak into the covenant owned space and capture one of their coveted leaders, a PROPHET, return him to earth and attempt to negotiate a truce between man and alien.
Do you have access to the Halo2 storyline? If so, I'd like to get a link from you. Is the 200 you are talking about from the original Halo story? I read how many children entered the SPARTAN program, and how many graduated, unhurt from the surgeries and drug therapy; but have forgotten. Thought it was like 100 or 200, with maybe 30 graduating. And, by the time we get to the battle for Reach, there are like 10 SPARTANs, total, left in the galaxy. MC loses his team, so now we're down to around 6 (including the MC). Does the Human defense force whip out another 200 SPARTANs, from some super secret program, for Halo2?