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Subject: Why are the Humans so unadvanced?

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Imagine a world where 747s are flying around with giant lasers shooting at ballistic missiles. Well that world could happen in the next decade with our new technology. What i ask is why do the humans have no laser weaponry. I like the ballistic weaponry for our ground troops but no high intensity lasers on our ships? WTF?!? is this the stone age. we will have powerful airborne lasers by 2100 for sure. yet we have nothing in 2552? That is my main complaint about Halo in general.

  • 05.11.2006 7:41 PM PDT
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Yeah, I feel Halo was set too far in the future. Humans would be way more technologically advanced in 500 years than what is in Halo. I think it should have been, at most, 200 years into the future. This would also be my main complaint for Halo regarding the storyline.

  • 05.11.2006 7:44 PM PDT
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hey your right wtf

  • 05.11.2006 7:44 PM PDT
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actually we today are more advanced then the future humans (aleast in war) so we sort of deadvanced.

  • 05.11.2006 7:47 PM PDT
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Maybe we were hit with some kinda of pandemic or disastor...that set us back and destroyed mass popluation and citys?

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  • 05.11.2006 7:49 PM PDT
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maybe they spent too much time perfecting Colonel Sander's famous Chicken Recipe...
or maybe they just didn't expect to be fighting super-hardcore-ultra-advanced-high-tech-aliens that attacked them on sight... perhaps the Future Earth will be peaceful and have no need for ultra-lazor-beams.

  • 05.11.2006 7:50 PM PDT
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Its the governments fault. There is a lack of funding for technological development at the high school and college level today. So there are less and less students coming out of school with such degrees. Apparantly this trend carried over for hundreds of generations!

The last time the U.S. saw an increase in interest and funding for the sciences and H.S. and college levels was when Kenedy annonced the "Space Race". If you do some research you will see what I mean.

Since that time interest and funding has diminished.

  • 05.11.2006 7:50 PM PDT
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I've been around these parts for almost eight years now...wow! Maybe I should be concerned about that...

It was for balance. And it's a game.

  • 05.11.2006 7:51 PM PDT

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Except for the fact that we dont have massive warships and genetically enhanced super soldiers...technology now and in halo is not all that much different....my only problem with the campaign is that it should only of been set 200 years in the future at most but it dont matter that much. If things kept going like they are now...we would we would have phasers and death stars and stuff by then....

  • 05.11.2006 7:55 PM PDT
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Humans are stupid, what can I say?

I really have no idea why

  • 05.11.2006 7:58 PM PDT
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it is peaceful the marines control all human settlements except meteors rings of bandits and thats their only problems in the books it says they were at peace

  • 05.11.2006 7:58 PM PDT
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we're humans, we dont need advanced technology to kick ass

  • 05.11.2006 7:59 PM PDT
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Combat Devolved? We can't have that. Look at it this way, at least we traveled out side our own solar system safely in 500 year. Set up on new planets. Found some aliens whether or not friendly or hostile, and we are getting the $hit kicked out of us. We have the ultimate soldier, why do you say we are not advanced? He can do almost anything.

  • 05.11.2006 8:10 PM PDT
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Actually I think that we can make a spartan II allready, Manipulate the genes so that the bones use iron as they grow too, manipulate so we get stronger, faster, smarter. We allready got that in our hands, we only need to use it. And yeah in 500 years we should be way more advanced than we are in Halo, but, it is a game.

  • 05.12.2006 5:02 AM PDT
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Gameplay and technological advancement don't mix.

  • 05.12.2006 5:05 AM PDT
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Bullets hurt right? They kill people right?
So why advance further in that field? Duh...

  • 05.12.2006 5:08 AM PDT
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Also, unadvanced?

The Mjolnir armor.
flash cloning.
Body augmentations.
Space travel (that is actually good).
Colonization of other planets.
Orbital defense platforms.
The space elevator.
etc.

  • 05.12.2006 5:19 AM PDT
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Most big (military) research facilty's are set on Reach, as you people should know Reach has been destroyed. That's my explaination, but we should have at least a bit more advanced Shotguns and Sniper rifles, those haven't changed at all!

  • 05.12.2006 5:35 AM PDT
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The military technology of the various Chinese empires remained virtually static for thousands of years, until contact with Russia to the North and the Europeans to the South led to hundred years of quasi-colonialism. Until then, the only real threats to the Chinese empires were internal disputes among different Han factions, separatist wars among the minority nationalities, and raids from the horsemen to the North.

The United Nations Space Command in the Halo universe was in the same position as China during it's two-thousand year mediæval period. With no outside enemies, there's no real need to develop better weapons - especially when the nature of war has been internal; you don't want to see war made too effective.

  • 05.12.2006 6:35 AM PDT
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somone wrote that 500 years isnt alot of time.....ARE YOU CRAZY within 500 years we will have spanded the galaxy....u guys cant judge what earth might be like weve only seen one city and it wasnt even a Mayjor city...we havent seen Earths Ground Instilations and im sure Earth has a few tricks up there sleeves...honeslty we would have gone further but we colonised reach and made it almost another Earth the Orbital guns are Impressive but still using Metal as a Ballistic weapon why not use Nukes they have to be more effective in a Dangerous situation....we probably would be further advanced then them but we havent been at war with an Alien race for 100 years and around the middle mark of that we nearly were distroyed...

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My friend, you would not tell with ſuch high zeſt
To children ardent for ſome deſperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum eſt
Pro patria mori.

New Mombassa was one of the few cities able to host a Space Elevator. That pretty much guarantees it'd be a major city. Just like [to continue the China motif] Guangzhou and later Hong Kong became major cities - trade plays a big part.

And while 500 years is a long time to us, you have to understand that during that time the driving force behind techology was population growth, not warfare.

As for why we're still using guns rather than lasers - guns pack a lot more punch for a lot less energy. If you accelerate a gram of tungsten to 100,000 kilometres a second, you've got an awful lot of punching power. Now raise that mass by a factor of a million - make it a tonne of tungsten, and you've got almost guaranteed death.

  • 05.12.2006 7:00 AM PDT
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We have colonized several other planets and we have figured out how to jump from one point in space to another in a matter of minutes even though the destination is billions of light years away.... I think we've advanced enough.

  • 05.12.2006 7:25 AM PDT
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Well, from what i understand, humans had alrge empire spreadover many colonised planets, and one day, a long time before halo is set, the covenant find some of these cololonies and start destroying them.

So that would have slowed down advancement a bit, as people were being evacuated.

And why even bother with lasers. The aveerage human laser today is only 10% efficient, that means that 90% of the enrgy put into firing it would be converted toheat. Why bother trying to solve that problem when bullets are actually more effective. For those who don't know, a laser sears the nerves on contact, so if you got shot with a laser, you probably wouldn't feel it, which would allow the target to fight on. Bullets hurt - a lot, and pain is one of the things that slows down any life from (except flood)

And there is some pretty good technology in there, like the cruisers, and the pelicans. While we could probably build a working pelican, it would have to be made out of aluminiu or something to even get off the ground, let alone carry supplies.

And we are a lllooonnnnnnnnnnggggggggg way off developing an AI as advanced as cortana.

There are more things to research than weapons. I imagine the medical facilities are brilliant. I mean, even walking into a health pack in halo 1 heals your wounds no matter where they are.

  • 05.12.2006 7:26 AM PDT

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