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Subject: Could the UNSC watch the Human/Flood/Forerunner wars?

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Light takes a long time to get from one part of the galaxy to the other. So, couldn't the UNSC "watch" the Human-Flood, Human-Forerunner, Flood-Forerunner wars through looking at a telescope at certain places in the galaxy?

Also couldn't the UNSC "listen" to ancient communications in the wars? Since radio waves are as fast as light, the UNSC could put up a special antenna and listen to their anscestors.

[Edited on 05.12.2011 10:13 PM PDT]

  • 05.12.2011 10:09 PM PDT

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Sounds possible

  • 05.12.2011 10:29 PM PDT

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Plausible...but unlikely that Forerunners used radio.

  • 05.12.2011 10:31 PM PDT

They could I guess listen... but how the -blam!- would it be deciphered? Nothing to base it off of, they'd be better off trying to make sense of white noise.

Edit: by this I mean ancient Humans. I'm not sure about the forerunner language.

[Edited on 05.12.2011 10:33 PM PDT]

  • 05.12.2011 10:32 PM PDT

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Not in the galaxy, light would already be gone. They didn't use radio waves.

  • 05.12.2011 10:41 PM PDT

Nope, even if they did use radio waves or any other form of electromagnetic radiation we can use to get a clear representation from, the diameter of the galaxy is only around 100k light years and I very much doubt that area of UNSC space was the complete other side of the galaxy from the apex of the flood forerunner war.

  • 05.13.2011 1:37 AM PDT


Posted by: Tom Clarke
Nope, even if they did use radio waves or any other form of electromagnetic radiation we can use to get a clear representation from, the diameter of the galaxy is only around 100k light years and I very much doubt that area of UNSC space was the complete other side of the galaxy from the apex of the flood forerunner war.


Which also took place 110,000 years ago.

In short, no.

  • 05.13.2011 5:26 AM PDT
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They can't. Milky Way is only 100,000 light-years in diameter. They couldn't even see Halo's firing without being outside Milky Way. Radiowaves may be as fast as light but light isn't fast enough.

  • 05.13.2011 5:32 AM PDT
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Sounds possible

This, but I still doubt it.

  • 05.13.2011 12:33 PM PDT
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Bungie did their homework, the Galaxy is ~ 100,000 lightyears across, the wars happened OVER 100,000 yrs ago. Hence, they would have to go to interstellar space to watch them. They might have done so on the ark, but it was destroyed and the portal collapsed. So that would not be possible even if they could make such a telescope, which they cant.It is almost impossible to see a gas giant less then 10 light years ago. We are talking 100,000s of light years away. That kind of technology would not be attained for thousands or millions of years anyway.

  • 05.13.2011 4:18 PM PDT

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Excellent topic though. What if it was the other way around? what if (any remaining) Forerunners viewed the Human-Covenant War from outside the galaxy, looking in? they'd have the technology...just a thought.

  • 05.13.2011 9:39 PM PDT

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Posted by: tsassi2
They can't. Milky Way is only 100,000 light-years in diameter. They couldn't even see Halo's firing without being outside Milky Way. Radiowaves may be as fast as light but light isn't fast enough.


Light is fastest speed in whole the galaxy, which that impossible radiowaves beat the speed of light. so yep not enough speed and even slower.

  • 05.13.2011 11:57 PM PDT

I started up the heated debate on whether the SPARTAN-II in the cryo tube near the end of Reach is really Linda.
I created the Moa XING avatar pic.
Also I earned the All Star nameplate with this submission to Week 14 All Stars http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline11/bwu_0415/art/likea boss.jpg


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Posted by: tsassi2
They can't. Milky Way is only 100,000 light-years in diameter. They couldn't even see Halo's firing without being outside Milky Way. Radiowaves may be as fast as light but light isn't fast enough.


Light is fastest speed in whole the galaxy, which that impossible radiowaves beat the speed of light. so yep not enough speed and even slower.


did you take college astronomy? radio waves, gamma rays, x-rays, uv rays, light, etc are all the same thing: electromagnetic radiation. So they all travel at the same speed. They're just on different spectrums so we can't see any of them except one. Also there is possibly FTL objects/particles/etc out there that we haven't detected yet.

Anyway I'm sure that if the UNSC had placed some telescopes outside the galaxy by a few million miles, I'm sure they could see something from the end of the war. If today we can see planets in other solar systems and possibly in other galaxies (i'm not sure about the galaxy part) then I'm sure telescopes 500 years in the future could see in far more detail.

I'm not saying that the UNSC could see actual Forerunners, but I'm sure they could see ship structures, explosions, etc. And they could possibly listen in on ancient comms

[Edited on 05.14.2011 12:26 AM PDT]

  • 05.14.2011 12:17 AM PDT

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  • 05.14.2011 12:48 AM PDT