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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: PLUT0NIUM 235
You do know that a single shot from a Super MAC has the equivelant energy of around ~51,625 megatons of TNT (51.6 gigatons or 0.516 teratons), bearing in mind the 50 megaton tsar bomb produced similar to 1.6% of the sun (a main sequence star) output. so a single Super MAC round produces a staggering fourteen and a half times as much energy as our star puts out (overall) in a second, so fourteen and a half seconds worth of solar output. now im sorry but that is in the absolutely rediculous scale, thats around ~600,000 times more powerful than a single standard ship MAC round. which by my calculations have around 87 kilotons worth of energy for each round.Too late for me to bother checking it, but your math looks about right to me. You must be using a different value for TNT energy output, because using Wikipedia's values, I get 71Kt.
Unyielding Heirophant isn't that large, where in the name of jesus is it 'claiming' to get that amount of energy from, cause i'll tell you what, its not fusion, bearing in mind the sun consumes millions of tons of matter each second in fusion. the only possible method i can think of for generating that amount of energy is matter/anti-matter reaction, and thats assuming one hundred percent efficient. since the Covenant don't possess matter/anti-matter reactors we can assume its absolute balls.There are 1000 twelve-terawatt fusion reactors aboard Unyielding Heirophant, which is a power system dedicated to the shield.
Page 305 of First Strike - "Each lobe has 500 12-terawatt reactors similar in design to the pinch fusion reactors aboard their ships. This energy is used to power a shielding system capable of repelling the collision of a small moon"
Also a single Super MAC round hitting the surface of our planet would be an extinction level event, the Barringer crater in Arizona was caused by an asteroid around 50 metres across, travelling at 12.8 kilometres/second and the crater is three quarters of a mile across, a Super MAC round is 3,000 metric tons travelling around a thousand times the speed..!
another event worth noting is the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact on Jupiter, one of the fragments (fragment G, non of the pieces was estimated to be greater than 5km across) created a 12,000 kilometre diameter scar on Jupiter, releasing an estimated 6,000,000 megatons of TNT (six teratons), or 116 times the energy of a Super MAC round, but still if the size of the crater/scar is directly proportional to the amount of energy, a Super MAC would still create ~104 kilometre wide scar on Jupiter, could you imagine what that would do to the Earth? also it further reinforces why I think there is no way Unyielding Heirophant could survive being hit by a SMAC shot.I did say in my last post that even if the shield could withstand the shot, the ship itself or at least the occupants most certainly wouldn't.
Also, I remember reading somewhere (probably Halopedia) that a 20-round barrage from ODPs would recreate the extinction event created by the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.
I personally think that keeping to realistic physics, etc. is essencial in maintaining the level of realism in science fiction, it should be grounded in the realms of actual physics and not absolute fiction, thats why I dislike Star Wars because of their rediculous number-gasms, things like Star Destroyers have weapons capable of a teraton/shot, one sixth the energy released by fragment G of Shoemaker Levy 9.Well, space combat in of itself isn't realistic.
Here's a good read as to why stealth doesn't exist in space.
The ODPs certainly don't operate in regular physics. Since they fire at 40% speed of light, they will encounter relativistic effects during flight, in which some of the energy of the round will convert to mass, and thus slow down the round.
In space combat in Halo, ships commonly travel at great speeds in the millions of kph, and a Prowler's top speed is inferred as 40 million kph, and a Frigate's weapon range can be reach from a distance of 80 million km within one hour at maximum speed.
The reactors of UNSC Frigates are also capable of producing a sizeable portion each of the UK's current energy demand today.
There's more, it's too late for me to discuss them.
[Edited on 12.21.2010 7:45 AM PST]