- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Brilliant theory! I too noticed that Mombasa is about an equatorial city, but this tidbit of info got lost, as I was looking for something else. Earth very well may be the Ark. It would make sense that the Halo ring worlds' explosive blasts would go outwards from them, not inwards - good reason for them to have all of that groovy life on the inside, and building one around a pristine planet (as we were so long ago) would make an ideal galactic arc. Then again, if it's inside the planet, it'd destroy all life on the surface... Arg.
The second problem remains that the Flood have been found in containment on the Halos, seemingly on purpose. If there was a ring inside the Earth, wouldn't we have a little contamination problem? Of course, the obvious solution to that be to have the Flood only on the other 6, but it still leaves the problem of not getting rid of the Flood, no matter how many times the Halo weapon is fired. Seems really counterintuitive, but that's fiction for ya.
[Edited on 5/17/2006]