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Subject: Do you think our technology will match that of the UNSC in 500 years?


Posted by: Elem3nt 117
Our current mathematics

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  • 04.13.2011 5:21 PM PDT
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Chances are yes, the UNSC was using equipment similar to ours(Not including Slip space Drive). I have no doubt that our tech will exceed UNSC standards in the next 500 years. Although, you can never know.

  • 04.13.2011 5:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: Nameless Oracle
We already have much of the UNSC's more realistic technology in use today or being researched.

Most of the UNSC's conventional weapons are no different than todays guns.

Railguns are pretty easy to make but really aren't that efficient.

Small shields have been created in labs but need a warehouse of equipment to work.

We have very primitive AI's but nowhere near sophisticated enough to do much of anything.

We have prototype powered armor and exoskeletons that the military is interested in but have the same limitations as mjolnir mk 1 through 3.

Space ships, large stations and colonies won't be created until we find a better way to get stuff into space than strap a small plane on skyscrapper sized rockets.

Supersoldiers probably won't happen because of how controversial the idea is.

Energy weapons for infantry are too impractical to use.


Railguns are still in development, though you are right, most of the prototypes have been fairly bad. However, gauss weaponry (also known as coilguns) prototypes have been fairly successful and thats primarly what they use in the Halo verse. Either way, if we ever get a working model it will be far superior to any black-powder/cordite based weaponry

Plasma and laser based weaponry has also been fairly successful as well, though not on the infantry level, as you suggested. Its most likly to be used on vehicles and in anti-missile systems

[Edited on 04.13.2011 10:06 PM PDT]

  • 04.13.2011 10:04 PM PDT

Gigitty Gigitty Goo!

Halo Is awesome and all but it does seem a little under advanced

  • 04.13.2011 10:13 PM PDT

What the blargh!?

I would be suprised if our tech would be like the UNSC...its too bad we cant quiet see the day to see all of it...

  • 04.13.2011 10:24 PM PDT

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Posted by: xRYOKUx
In 500 years humanity will be on par/beyond Covenant. The tech in UNSC is odd. We won't be using bullets in 50-100 years, and if we are it will be magnetic rail based not gunpowder based.

A culture cannot evolve/ advance is all they care about is making a bigger gun.
Most of our technology we use today was past wartime technology made for the war. Wars and Rivalries increase how hard people work it is called competition, a sense of urgency. The world has lost that sense of urgency as you can tell we still make advancements just not as fast. If we still had Cold War era tensions I can guarantee we would have developed current technology faster and would have had more advanced technologies. Wars increase the budget for research in science, science=advancement, now if only we can get the greedy bastards who have kept us dependent on oil to realize they could still be a monopoly with alternative fuels.

  • 04.13.2011 11:14 PM PDT

i hope by then our weapons and whatnot are better then the UNSC grade because honestly half that stuff kinda sucks... i mean they are still using bullets

  • 04.14.2011 12:36 AM PDT
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I doubt that we'll be living on other planets by the year 2512... well, mabey Mars. We will certainly have visited other worlds, though. I rekon that our technology will have come ahead leaps and bounds in the next 500 years. Some of the stuff we're doing now is pretty impressive.

  • 04.14.2011 12:56 AM PDT

Posted by: notnooborelite
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Everyone who is saying that 100 years ago people didn't think we could even do the things we do now should read about Leonardo da Vince. He 500 years ago and pretty much came up with the blue prints to many machines used right now.

Someone mentioned cars. The fastest car we have now roughly goes the speed of sound. That's quite a difference from the speed of light which is still not even close to how fast we would need to go for true interstellar space travel.

The Voyager space crafts are moving around 35,000 mph. At that speed it would take the craft over 80,000 years just to get to the closest star which is around 4.3 light years away. The Milky Way is 100,000 light years across.

Before some of you start realize that nothing, and I mean nothing has been proven about multiple dimensions, worm holes and all that jazz. Yes we know that black holes, through gravity bend space time. Actually what we know is that it changes how we measure space time. Every thing is is theoretical.

Are you starting to see how far we would have advance to make this happen?


yeah, but you got to think about it, Leonardo Da Vinci lived in a time when most people thought that he was a lunatic. times were much more strict back then, the church would hardly except anything new and so it was difficult for almost ANYTHING new to be made.
times have changed, humans are more open now. we will except almost all new ideas that are put foword.
also, you do realise that the theory of relativity, though imenslly excepted, is still just a THEORY. it is not proven, though 99.9999% likely to be correct.
I'm not sure how that changes my point about Vinci. My point is that there are some really intelligent people who have a good idea where technology is going in the future.



oh sorry i thought that you were saying that because Leonardo D Vinci came up with those stuff back then we should be more advanced now or something like that lol.
but yeah, i agree with you now that I know what you are talking about.

  • 04.14.2011 1:42 PM PDT

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Posted by: notnooborelite
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Posted by: notnooborelite
Orbital elevators will never happen.

260GPa is apparently required (That includes the Saftey factor). MWCNT could give us 300GPa. Where did you read that NASA scrapped the plan?
Popular Science, newspaper articles and internet articles. I also live by the Marshall Space flight Center and know a few NASA employees. Scrap probably was a poor choice of words. It's on some table some where but you won't so much money or time invested in it because it's just not realistic.

Okay. Well regardless, it is probably shelved indefinitely anyway after Obama's NASA funding cuts.

  • 04.14.2011 1:52 PM PDT

I think it is very plausible that 500 years from now we have some UNSC technologies. It all hinges on the world working together though, until then, nothing will get done about FTL drives or space colonies. Something needs to happen in order for the world or almost all of it to come together.

In other words, we need a small covy invasion to happen haha

  • 04.14.2011 1:52 PM PDT

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At the rate technology is being develop right now which is pretty fast we will make it to their level or above that. We will soon have our first real smart AI in about 75 - 100 years from now...maybe.

  • 04.14.2011 3:16 PM PDT

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I said below standards. Although bungie did a good job making the UNSC a realistic possibility.

  • 04.14.2011 3:26 PM PDT

Spartans never die... they just revert to last checkpoint.

Humans are like cockroaches. Don't be so pessimistic. We will survive.

  • 04.14.2011 3:37 PM PDT

Spartans never die... they just revert to last checkpoint.


Posted by: ansac11
I have no doubt that our tech will exceed UNSC standards in the next 500 years. [u]Although, you can never know.[/]


That's called a doubt.

  • 04.14.2011 3:39 PM PDT

Coup rules!

Posted by: manwith
Edited by: LvLupXD
I would not be surprised if we did live outside of our solar system in 500 years.
^This

  • 04.14.2011 3:50 PM PDT

Spartans never die... they just revert to last checkpoint.

We will be more advanced in all but Space travel and colonization.

[Edited on 04.14.2011 4:16 PM PDT]

  • 04.14.2011 3:54 PM PDT

Spartans never die... they just revert to last checkpoint.

Augmentation will likely be a very common process.

[Edited on 04.14.2011 4:20 PM PDT]

  • 04.14.2011 4:13 PM PDT

Spartans never die... they just revert to last checkpoint.

No. We need another Cold War actually. One that ends just as well as the last one.

  • 04.14.2011 4:14 PM PDT

Spartans never die... they just revert to last checkpoint.

wtf my quotes arent showing up!

  • 04.14.2011 4:17 PM PDT

Spartans never die... they just revert to last checkpoint.


Posted by: EnragedElite67
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron

Posted by: xRYOKUx
In 500 years humanity will be on par/beyond Covenant. The tech in UNSC is odd. We won't be using bullets in 50-100 years, and if we are it will be magnetic rail based not gunpowder based.

A culture cannot evolve/ advance is all they care about is making a bigger gun.
Most of our technology we use today was past wartime technology made for the war. Wars and Rivalries increase how hard people work it is called competition, a sense of urgency. The world has lost that sense of urgency as you can tell we still make advancements just not as fast. If we still had Cold War era tensions I can guarantee we would have developed current technology faster and would have had more advanced technologies. Wars increase the budget for research in science, science=advancement, now if only we can get the greedy bastards who have kept us dependent on oil to realize they could still be a monopoly with alternative fuels.


Genius. Pure Genius.

edit: there it is.

[Edited on 04.14.2011 4:20 PM PDT]

  • 04.14.2011 4:18 PM PDT

Spartans never die... they just revert to last checkpoint.

And terraforming. Probly no alien contact either.

  • 04.14.2011 4:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: Apocalypse 1313

Posted by: EnragedElite67
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron

Posted by: xRYOKUx
In 500 years humanity will be on par/beyond Covenant. The tech in UNSC is odd. We won't be using bullets in 50-100 years, and if we are it will be magnetic rail based not gunpowder based.

A culture cannot evolve/ advance is all they care about is making a bigger gun.
Most of our technology we use today was past wartime technology made for the war. Wars and Rivalries increase how hard people work it is called competition, a sense of urgency. The world has lost that sense of urgency as you can tell we still make advancements just not as fast. If we still had Cold War era tensions I can guarantee we would have developed current technology faster and would have had more advanced technologies. Wars increase the budget for research in science, science=advancement, now if only we can get the greedy bastards who have kept us dependent on oil to realize they could still be a monopoly with alternative fuels.


Genius. Pure Genius.

edit: there it is.
To a certain degree this is true. The problem is the nuclear age. In the past wars did trigger huge technological advances and helped thin the human population which can be a huge problem.

The problem with the nuclear age is if the worst case scenario happens we make so much of the planet some what inhabitable so much energy and what little resources people have left will go in to survival. There wont be many people, time or funds left for scientific study.

  • 04.14.2011 9:58 PM PDT

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Posted by: notnooborelite

Posted by: Apocalypse 1313

Posted by: EnragedElite67
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron

Posted by: xRYOKUx
In 500 years humanity will be on par/beyond Covenant. The tech in UNSC is odd. We won't be using bullets in 50-100 years, and if we are it will be magnetic rail based not gunpowder based.

A culture cannot evolve/ advance is all they care about is making a bigger gun.
Most of our technology we use today was past wartime technology made for the war. Wars and Rivalries increase how hard people work it is called competition, a sense of urgency. The world has lost that sense of urgency as you can tell we still make advancements just not as fast. If we still had Cold War era tensions I can guarantee we would have developed current technology faster and would have had more advanced technologies. Wars increase the budget for research in science, science=advancement, now if only we can get the greedy bastards who have kept us dependent on oil to realize they could still be a monopoly with alternative fuels.


Genius. Pure Genius.

edit: there it is.
To a certain degree this is true. The problem is the nuclear age. In the past wars did trigger huge technological advances and helped thin the human population which can be a huge problem.

The problem with the nuclear age is if the worst case scenario happens we make so much of the planet some what inhabitable so much energy and what little resources people have left will go in to survival. There wont be many people, time or funds left for scientific study.
I don't really get where your going with the nuclear age thing, just because we have nuclear weapons doesn't mean we can't innovate technologies (Just look at the Cold War).In the nuclear age unless a country wants mutually assured destruction they will not send nukes unless it is supported. Russia will not nuke the US since we would nuke them back. World is gone, only someone who is extremely stupid or crazy would do that. And it isn't to a certain degree, that is a fact war=great advancements in technology. Look at what the internet was originally, look at radar, lots of our technology we use was once developed strictly for war purposes.

  • 04.14.2011 11:27 PM PDT
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Yes I'm fairly young. No, that doesn't mean I'm automatically dumber than you or have less life experience, thats just generally the case. I am not your general case.

Posted by: Apocalypse 1313
Augmentation will likely be a very common process.

Indeed...regulations will be required to prevent...deformations

[Edited on 04.14.2011 11:56 PM PDT]

  • 04.14.2011 11:56 PM PDT