- PLUT0NIUM 235
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[Edited on 05.28.2011 10:46 AM PDT][/quote]
Engines produce large amounts of heat and no, light bending and infrared bending aren't exactly the same. Light only covers a small area from the electromagnetic spectrum whilst infra-red covers three times larger. Also, infra-red and light aren't the only radiation emitted by Covenant ships. I believe radiation can be found all over the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma radiation. In order to ship emit zero radiation, it would have to turn off all it's systems.[/quote]
yes engines produce large amounts of heat, when they are turned on, when they aren't turned on they don't...in space you don't need you engines constantly turned on, its like putting a giant billboard saying 'I am here, come and shoot me...'
back to cloaking, how is bending light different from bending infra-red 'light', they are both in essence variations of the same thing, except on has a longer wavelength and lower frequency, but all in all they are one in the same. so surely if you can 'bend' one of them, some of the others should follow the same trend, ultra-violet, infra-red, etc. and types of radiation like gamma radiation require more specialised equipment to detect it. would assume the humans don't use an all in one radiation detector, and even then why point your all in one radiation detector at a 'seemingly' open piece of sky?
also that is assuming that Covenant engines do in-fact produce a lot of heat and that they cannot somehow mask it, both of which are assumptions, same thing goes for gamma, radio, microwave, etc. escaping from the ship, what makes you think it penetrates the hull? guessing the assumption is its being emitted from machinery and such inside?