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Posted by: cavero
so wait...the forerunner DIDNT have plasma technology? because wasnt a plasma overdoes or whatever the reason SGT Johnson didnt become a flood?


what happened to Avery Johnson is hard to recrate and would have proably killed countless people

  • 05.16.2006 9:36 PM PDT
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really? i just thought he and his squad had the overdose and survived. too bad i suppose...

  • 05.16.2006 9:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: Aerien
Radiation doesn't travel very fast, and it can't penetrate certain substances/materials. This would make it impractical for a galactic-scale weapon.


Actual you are wrong. When an H-bomb goes off radiation is what causes the fusion of the material because if it didn't then all of the componets would be blown away and it would be an A-bomb and not a H-bomb. So radiation would be the most effective way.

The radiation that we know of cant penetrate certain materials such as lead. I think if the Forerunners used radiation it would have to be able to penetrate everything in order to effectivly cover the whole galaxy. Plus radiation is one of the only thing that goes through material and isn't stoped by planets

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  • 05.16.2006 9:42 PM PDT
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Radiation travels slow compared to some other forms of energy. In order for the mechanism of the Halo to work in a relatively short period of time (even using slipspace as a means of traveling between planets), you would need something that moved much, much faster than radiation. Also, radiation drops off the farther away from the source it moves, meaning it starts moving even slower. In addition, if it passed through a planet that was made of a large amount of lead, there would be gaps in the radiation past that planet, and thus it wouldn't affect the entire galaxy.

  • 05.16.2006 9:45 PM PDT
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whats wrong with being a flood anyways?

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so what would you suggest to use

because they are an ugly parasite

Radiation travels at the speed of light not much travels faster than that

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  • 05.16.2006 9:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: biohazard bob

because they are an ugly parasite


so are the elderly, but you dont see us wiping them out every chance we get :P

  • 05.16.2006 9:49 PM PDT
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A massive, spherical wave of some unknown type of particle that travels at (or extremely close to) the speed of light, which is not hampered by any materials it may pass through, and has the ability to break down matter? I can't really answer that question, as I don't know a whole lot on energy like this.

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appantly not because radiation travels at the speed of light

  • 05.16.2006 9:50 PM PDT
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Uhh, no, it doesn't.

  • 05.16.2006 9:52 PM PDT
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then how fast does it travel

  • 05.16.2006 9:54 PM PDT
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doesnt a microwave use radiation to heat stuff?

  • 05.16.2006 9:55 PM PDT
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I looked up radiation and it said: Radiation in physics is a process of emission of energy or particles. Various forms of radiation may be distinguished, depending on the type of the emitted energy/matter, the type of the emission source, properties and purposes of the emission, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation

  • 05.16.2006 9:56 PM PDT
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Radiation is one way energy can travel, yes. The only things that can travel at the speed of light (according to today's physics) are massless particles such as photons. Radiation does not fall under this category.

There are two common ways to describe radiation: the one listed above, and (usually) the harmful radiation from things like chemotherapy and nuclear bombs. The way you were talking about radiation in your first post was the latter. These forms of radiation do not travel at the speed of light.

If, however, you are talking about the Halo radiating a certain type of energy that travels at the speed of light, then your statement is valid; in this case, the energy could be described as radiation in such a fashion.

  • 05.16.2006 10:01 PM PDT
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both of them are the same because as I stated in my most resent post that radiation is the emission of energy or particles. the second one is still this form of radiation it just emitts different particles in this case harmful ones.

I have to go to bed its midnight and i have to go to school

  • 05.16.2006 10:07 PM PDT
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The post is also from wikipedia, which means (while it is often a fairly good source) a lot of information is wrong/distorted due to the fact that anyone can edit it. The way that information is given also leads people to think different things. To prove, here is the definition from a dictionary:

ra·di·a·tion Audio pronunciation of "radiation" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (rd-shn)
n.

1. The act or process of radiating: the radiation of heat and light from a fire.
2. Physics.
1. Emission and propagation and emission of energy in the form of rays or waves.
2. Energy radiated or transmitted as rays, waves, in the form of particles.
3. A stream of particles or electromagnetic waves emitted by the atoms and molecules of a radioactive substance as a result of nuclear decay.
3.
1. The act of exposing or the condition of being exposed to such energy.
2. The application of such energy, as in medical treatment.
4. Anatomy. Radial arrangement of parts, as of a group of nerve fibers connecting different areas of the brain.
5.
1. The spread of a group of organisms into new habitats.
2. Adaptive radiation.


The first and second defitions are what I described to you. Radiation can occur in many forms, and not all of them will travel the same way or at the same speed.

  • 05.16.2006 10:10 PM PDT
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how about if they wore tin foil? couldnt they have survived a radiation blast then? :)

  • 05.16.2006 10:13 PM PDT
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Depending on the type of radiation, no. Read the last few posts to discover why.

  • 05.16.2006 10:18 PM PDT
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well who says its the kinda radiation we know of? and who knows wether they had tin foil or not?

  • 05.16.2006 10:21 PM PDT
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wow we seem to have some physics experts talkin in this forum....

  • 05.16.2006 10:39 PM PDT
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It's basic high school physics. Very easy to understand.

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Maybe the flood would have mutated from radiation, then they would just be big flood

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They wouldn't make radiation that doesn't go thought tin because alot of planets have tin on them and that would mess up the destribiution of the radiation

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I hate to burst some bubbles, but inbreeding, while... yucky... is not inherently harmful in a genetic sense. It is only when inbreeding leads to passing on unfavourable genes (diseases, deficiencies, etc) that inbreeding hurts a population. In fact, you could potentially resurrect an entire race from one of each sex of an animal, so long as they were genetically very healthy and fit to deal with to whatever hardships life started to throw at them (infections disease, for example).

  • 05.17.2006 5:53 AM PDT
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Both of the atomic and hyrogen bomds produce radiation

1. Fission (what is used on atomic bombs): Fission happeneds when you take a large atom such as uranium and spit it into two smaller atoms which some of the particles go of causeing gamma radiation

2. Fusion (what is used in the hydrogen bomb): fusion is when you take two smaller more common atoms and combine them realeasing more particles as radiation

  • 05.17.2006 1:43 PM PDT

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