- ImmortalJoshua
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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]