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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: tsassi2
The gravity either comes from the spinning of the ring which creates centrifugal force or it is totally artificial. Which means that it's formed by some kind of generator. How this generator would work is totally unknown. It may use black holes or some other objects with extreme density. Halo rings usually spin as we have seen in Halo CE and 2 but I don't believe a speed that slow could create enough centrifugal force. (You can't really see how fast it spins. You can only see that at least it spins.) It may also be combination of both.INCORRECT MATHS THAT I CANNOT BE BOTHERED TO CORRECT.
Halo rings are 10,000km in diameter.
This means that to generate 9.81N of centrifugal force (one standard 'gee'), it would have to rotate at 783m/s. Sounds like a lot, but it's only a rotational velocity of 1.57x10^-4 radians per second - somewhere in between the speeds that a minute hand and hour hand make on a watch face.
That said, it is almost 1.7 times as fast as Earth rotates at its equator, at 1750mph.
With that figure, it will take 40,000 seconds for one full revolution, or about 11 hours.
Note (taken from the halopedia trivia section on Halo rings):Considering its 10,000 km diameter, Halo would need to rotate at 7 km/s in order to produce Earth-like "gravity". However, in Halo: The Fall of Reach, Cortana says that "some numbers don't check out" and discovers an artificial gravity field on the ring.I don't know how they arrived at 7km/s for its speed, I checked and rechecked and only got 800m/s.
Just worked it out - gravitational field strength is measured in Newtons per kg, so the mass I should have used was 1kg, not 80 (average person weight).
Using this correct value, the Halo ring would have an angular velocity of 1.4x10^-3 radians per second, close to that of a second hand on a watch. This means it would take a fraction of a second under an hour and 15 minutes for a single rotation.
[Edited on 01.03.2011 12:28 PM PST]