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Subject: people, lets build our own Halo
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You, my ingenious friend, are correct. The idea is feasable, and your post gave me an idea. So I went to the only other place i could think of to get information. It occured to me that I had heard figures like that before, so I went digging for them. ever heard of this trilogy? Larry Niven's: Ringworld. It was the Halo of it's time and there are many similarities. Niven actually goes into the science of building a Ringworld and I believe that the figures could also be used to create a Halo ring as well. In "Ringworld" it is stated that the ring is ninety million miles in radius, six hundred million miles long and less than one million miles from edge to edge. Naturally these are approximations however. I also have an idea ragarding the robot minig: use the asteroid belt. As for the atmosphere; it would take decades to generate a stable earth normal atmosphere on a ring this size, so I can see why you would scale it down. But think of this: even with plants if you released the air to create an ambient atmosphere, all the oxygen would bleed off into space. TADA! the solution: Build a wall one thousand miles high on each edge of the ring. Then spin the ring at a speed of 770 miles per second or so to generate gravity, and bingo! problem solved.
There would be no minerals on this ring during the smelting process you would destroy the mineral value of the asteroids. But hey, with all that material, if you laced it with steel and other metals, it could be made to support itself at only 55 feet thick.
After it was built and spinning i suggest putting it in orbit around a large planetoid (ie Jupiter) and then angleing it towards the sun. the gravity field of jupiter would hold it in place and the angle to the sun would create a day/night cycle.

I have some great ideas and I think you're on to something BorealFace. So I, The Revenant, volunteer for project: Ringworld.

  • 07.18.2006 1:04 PM PDT
Subject: XxShadowmanxX dude, you are so negative
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you are right. we cannot possibly build this by ourselves. But we can pave the way for our decendants, and for their decendants and possibly the future generations of the entire planet to finish this great project. Who are you to say that tis isn't how the Forerunners first came to imagine their mighty rings? If the entire planet became united in our noble cause, just think of what we could accomplish: Halo would solve earth's over population issue, and with more space for farming, we could finally extinguish world hunger.
So, If your not going to help us, at least don't discourage us. Because your great grandchildren could be living on our ringworld.

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  • 07.18.2006 1:25 PM PDT
Subject: Feasable.

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Actually, with the co-operation of the world's governments, and with enough resources and money, this is feasable. With an artifical gravity field generated by the spinning of the ring, an atmosphere can be held on the ring. We could place it in orbit around jupiter, to have another stepping stone to the stars. I mean, we can have a space station around earth, a base on the moon, a colony on mars, why not a ring orbiting the sun, as another "planet" or around a planet such as jupiter, saturn, or neptune? Yes, it's possible, and would be a good safe haven for the third century. A network of halos could serve as humanity's backup homeworlds, in the case that earth becomes uninhabitable. We actually could have an AI caretaker of the ring, a "Monitor."

However, if they become lost, the problem for the far future's humanity is this:
"You have no idea how this ring works, do you? Why the forerunners built it? Halo doesn't kill flood, it kills their food. Humans, covenant, whatever. We're all equally edible. The only way to stop the flood is to starve them to death. And that's exactly what Halo is designed to do; wipe the galaxy clean of all sentient life. You don't believe me? Ask him."
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  • 07.18.2006 2:30 PM PDT

-Its a MG42!
-My favorite color is bubble shield

Why not make one that is small and put ants on it.....

  • 07.18.2006 7:37 PM PDT
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ohh good idea, that would be much more practical

  • 07.18.2006 7:44 PM PDT

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No, it's not feasable, and I'll tell you why.

First of all, building a Niven ringworld is impossible because the stresses from spinning the thing will be way, way too high for the material to withstand. You need a material with the tensile strength in excess of carbon nanotubes. Tenfold! It will never work, and such items are unobainable, hence, unotainium. You can't mine asteriods for material, you dolts. Iron and nickel are not that strong when it comes to pulling forces. This is impossible, and the article cited above even says so.

The term was coined in the mid-20th century for materials that often arise in science fiction. For example scrith, the fictional material forming the foundation of the Ringworld in Larry Niven's novel of the same name, requires a tensile strength on the order of the forces binding an atomic nucleus together. Since no such material is thought to be possible, a ring world is therefore said to be built out of unobtainium.

In other words, it is impossible. So please, will you all just stop thinking like uneducated kindergarteners before you decide to shoot your mouths off like idiots? You might just save yourselves a lot of embarrassment.

  • 07.18.2006 7:47 PM PDT
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Let's do it already...

  • 07.19.2006 7:18 AM PDT
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Posted by: i love momo
what ever happend to boralface i mean i really want to get started but hes not eveen on the forum anymore if we are going to do this he needs to start tellin us uor mjobs so if anyone know where he is message me

Yeah, I know. He better not give up on this...

  • 07.19.2006 7:42 AM PDT
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TwinFire0, You are also right. Just like XxShadowmanxX. And so, I will tell you the same thing I told him. No, We can not build this. Not at our current level of technology. But we can lay the foundation for the future. We can start this project. Hopefully there will be enough likeminded souls in our future generations to continue our great project.

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  • 07.19.2006 10:50 AM PDT
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i used tio have the screen name ilove momo but its this now ok so im still sighned up ok

  • 07.20.2006 9:33 AM PDT
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Dips on reclaimer

  • 08.08.2006 9:23 AM PDT
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It sounds crazy but once you get the materials, money, warrent, and other things we need I'll help you. I'm in. But I really think that you'll be wasting alot of time and money if you do this.

[Edited on 8/8/2006]

  • 08.08.2006 11:23 AM PDT
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Sure it would work but how do you propose we give it an atmosphere?
#1: Air would escape straight into space.
#2: Plants would die in the vacume.
#3: Total cost would be at least $10 billion.
#4: Needed technology for Halo is about 1 000 years ahead of our time.

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  • 08.08.2006 3:47 PM PDT
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The robots might be but the fuel to get them into space and then manouver would cost billions.

  • 08.08.2006 3:50 PM PDT

Posted by: Shadowstep889
It has the word "Halo" in its title. That means an automatic campaign playthrough for me.

Alright! I'm working on Mjolinir armour, and by 2552, I imagine we should be able to recreate Halo!

  • 08.09.2006 8:00 AM PDT

Get with the times.
Purple - better than white, black, yellow (tan) and Afro-Americans combined - is the colour of the future.

Lets bomb people till they give us money :P
We'll get the bombs from...

North Korea!

  • 08.09.2006 8:03 AM PDT

Get with the times.
Purple - better than white, black, yellow (tan) and Afro-Americans combined - is the colour of the future.

Posted by: ursasyfo
Sure it would work but how do you propose we give it an atmosphere?
#1: Air would escape straight into space.
#2: Plants would die in the vacume.
#3: Total cost would be at least $10 billion.
#4: Needed technology for Halo is about 1 000 years ahead of our time.


If you do make the structure. Then all you have to do is make a factory tehat releases CO2 in the"atmosphere"

Thats what NASA wnats to do to mars to get it livable.

  • 08.09.2006 8:04 AM PDT

Posted by: Shadowstep889
It has the word "Halo" in its title. That means an automatic campaign playthrough for me.

all the Halo tech is in our reach, except for AIs, Shaw-Fukijaw Slipspace generators, Plasma weapons, and Shielding.

  • 08.09.2006 8:07 AM PDT

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I am not going to contribute to this, but all I want to say is that this is possible in the next 500-1000 years. Your only problem is notifying first Bungie, then Microsoft, then the USA, then the world. That would be the hard part. All I have to say is whats the point, I think in the next 250 years we will have colonized the moon. All we need to do is make a lunar base on the moon. I think that would be bigger than this Halo. The only reason I could think to do this is to make it an orbital defence station, if we areant really alone... What I mean by that is just lay a bunch of weaponary on there and fire away if life actually comes.

  • 08.09.2006 5:51 PM PDT
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How is this not locked yet? This has absolutely nothing to do with Halo 2 THE GAME.

  • 08.09.2006 5:56 PM PDT
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I'm in, at least if I haveto no manual labor. I'll just plan and supervise.:)

  • 08.09.2006 6:06 PM PDT
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im in

  • 08.09.2006 6:19 PM PDT
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hmmmm....and now, would i hv to get off the couch for this??

  • 08.09.2006 6:26 PM PDT