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Subject: Radiation levels.

From how strong radiation can MkVI protect its spartan?

  • 10.27.2011 12:49 PM PDT

i heard somewhere that shields can deflect all radiation

  • 10.27.2011 1:03 PM PDT

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but carbines used radiation didn't they?

  • 10.27.2011 1:10 PM PDT

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  • 10.27.2011 1:37 PM PDT

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Posted by: SUBJECT901
i heard somewhere that shields can deflect all radiation


Yes, I think I recall this reading this somewhere. I think it was First Strike.

But high enough radiation levels can damage the shield.

  • 10.27.2011 2:26 PM PDT

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  • 10.27.2011 2:37 PM PDT

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Can't spartans take more radiation then a human?

  • 10.27.2011 3:41 PM PDT

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Can't spartans take more radiation then a human?

Most likely.

  • 10.27.2011 5:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: ferrrari
Can't spartans take more radiation then a human?

But yes i read that too.

  • 10.28.2011 6:29 AM PDT
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Posted by: AnubissWarior
From how strong radiation can MkVI protect its spartan?


It would depend on the type of radiation, due to it's thick metallic nature the armour certainly offers excellent protection from alpha-particle radiation, it also is very likely to offer good protection against beta-radiation due to it's thick and dense nature.

It would also protect the wearer from all the nasty stuff in the far ultraviolet region.

It likely offers a measure of protection against X-ray radiation, (Metals are good at blocking X-rays) but it's impossible to estimate a value.

The amount of protection it would offer from gamma-ray radiation would depend on what the material making up the suit actually is (it isn't regular titanium).
It is unlikely it can really protect the user from gamma, but it may provide some protection simply by placing matter between the user and the radiation.
In short, gamma is viscious and usually needs a lot of lead to stop.

The armour would actually make the user *more vulnerable* to cosmic rays and heavy metal ion particle radiation, this is due to the metal ion spallation that can occur in this process; any heavy atoms (like, say the metal in the armour) can be hit by the metal nucleus (the radiation particle in this case) and by a process called spallation (think of shrapnel production by a bullet) can be turned into a second radiation particle by collision. This can repeat, so one metal nucleus particle can result in a shower of slightly slower nuclei coming out the other side of the armour.


That's probably going into too much detail, but there you go.

If you meant "how would it do in a nuclear wasteland?" then the answer is "very well".
Most radiation risk from nuclear weapons is the fallout-alpha and beta-emmitters in particulate/dust form. The armour would be able to fully protect the user from this environment due to it's filters and NBC capabilities.
The gamma burst from a fusion bomb would still be a threat, but that only occurs on detonation, and if you are in a direct line of sight to the bomb when that happens you have other problems as well.....

Posted by: SUBJECT901
i heard somewhere that shields can deflect all radiation


Not possible.

If it was the Spartan Laser would be unable to damage shielded targets.

Posted by: ferrrari
Can't spartans take more radiation then a human?


Very unlikely, due to the nature of the damage done (cellular, not macro-scale).
They can almost certainly only take the same amount of radiation any human of their body mass could, that is their only advantage and it's very slight, they are bigger.

  • 10.29.2011 3:03 AM PDT

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But aren't gamma rays the least harmful?

  • 10.29.2011 3:33 AM PDT

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Better question? Could a Spartan-II wearing MK VI armor walk into, say, where you find the GECK in Fallout 3 and survive?

  • 10.29.2011 3:40 AM PDT
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Posted by: CrabbySpider
But aren't gamma rays the least harmful?


Not really, it's very penetrating, which is good news in that it can go straight through you without hitting anything, the *bad* news, is that it is energetic enough to break up and damage DNA.
This causes cell death more often than not, and a chance of mutations and cancers, nasty stuff. It's not the most intensly damaging to living tissue (that would be alpha) but because it is so hard to stop, or protect against, it often presents the greatest risk.
Simply because you can take precautions with the others, but short of a good chunk of lead there are few precautions you *can* take with gamma.



Posted by: GhostLink2401
Better question? Could a Spartan-II wearing MK VI armor walk into, say, where you find the GECK in Fallout 3 and survive?


Assuming it's alpha/beta emissions, then yes, it would likely do very well. A gamma emmitter is likely to penetrate the suit.
Fallout was supposed to be dirty fission bombs so beta-emmitter is probably the most common contaminant, but to be honest radiation in Fallout resembles real-life radiation slightly less than the moon resembles cheese, so take it or leave it lol...

It's basically a guess.
Fallout should not be as dangerous as it is in-game.

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  • 10.29.2011 3:43 AM PDT
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I would think that the armor would be able to keep its user safe from most, if not all, instances of higher-than-usual radiation that a Spartan would likely encounter.

For example, in Halo 2 when Chief went out into space to 'give the Covenant back their bomb,' he was exposed to space radiation and direct sunlight; however, no one (not even Cortana!) seemed concerned about Chief's radiation exposure. He made it out of that one just fine.

Heck, even in Halo: Reach, Six and Jorge planned a sort of spacejump as their method of escape from the slipspace bomb. Six was exposed to radiation, however radiation posed no health risk.

However, I don't think the suit would protect a Spartan if they were in close proximity to a star.

Hopefully that makes sense. I'm no scientist.

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  • 10.29.2011 1:50 PM PDT