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Subject: What is the Covenant equivilant to a human meter?

Posted by: Commander GX
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What is the Covenant equivilant to a human meter, foot, mile, etc?

  • 06.13.2011 2:39 AM PDT

I started up the heated debate on whether the SPARTAN-II in the cryo tube near the end of Reach is really Linda.
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  • 06.13.2011 2:55 AM PDT

Posted by: Commander GX
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Thank you. You have been most helpful. >_>
/sarcasm

Any REAL help?

  • 06.13.2011 2:56 AM PDT

Posted by: Commander GX
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Anybody?

  • 06.13.2011 3:29 AM PDT

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Posted by: Sigma617
I believe it is Units and subunits. I don't believe any fiction goes beyond that other than time being told in Cycles and subcycles (and ages).


Units are hours, aren't they?

  • 06.13.2011 4:17 AM PDT

Posted by: Commander GX
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Posted by: Sigma617

Posted by: M94 Mushroom Man

Posted by: Sigma617
I believe it is Units and subunits. I don't believe any fiction goes beyond that other than time being told in Cycles and subcycles (and ages).


Units are hours, aren't they?


Weren't Cycles hours? Unless Cycles and subcycles refer to years and months and smaller "units" of time refer to Units and subunits (hours and minutes respectively).

As for the equivalent of the meter, if what you suggest is true, we may never know.


I wonder why (and how) they would not tell us their measurement system.

  • 06.13.2011 4:24 AM PDT

Posted by: Commander GX
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Posted by: Sigma617

Posted by: M94 Mushroom Man
I wonder why (and how) they would not tell us their measurement system.


It's probably how they got around to making a 27km long goddamn spaceship.

"How big?"

"Really -blam!- big."


I'm gonna reread the novels and look for some mention of a measuring system.

  • 06.13.2011 4:29 AM PDT

We're never what we invent or intend.

In Halo: The Flood (novel) the Shipmaster in the beginning specifically refers to units as a unit of distance measurement (e.g. "several units aft") while cycles are mentioned several times in other sources as being time measurement.

  • 06.13.2011 8:47 AM PDT

question everything...truth has no pedigree

If I were an advanced civilization, I would make my base distance unit be equal to the rest-frame vacuum wavelength of radiation emitted during a hydrogen spin flip transition. It's a universal constant equal to approximately 21 cm in the SI system.

But I don't know.

[Edited on 06.13.2011 9:32 AM PDT]

  • 06.13.2011 9:31 AM PDT

question everything...truth has no pedigree


Posted by: Dustin 6047

Posted by: wu haoxuan
If I were an advanced civilization, I would make my base distance unit be equal to the rest-frame vacuum wavelength of radiation emitted during a hydrogen spin flip transition. It's a universal constant equal to approximately 21 cm in the SI system.

But I don't know.


My face after reading...



LOL...it would only make sense though. It is one of the most ubiquitous forms of radiation in the galaxy, so you would always have a measurement standard on hand.

  • 06.13.2011 9:43 AM PDT