- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I think what he was asking was if the explosion should have killed him. He seems to be very resiliant to weapons of any kind as it's written in the halo books, as well as it is seen in the first Halo game.
Even a UNSC ship's engines going critical didn't kill him. (If you watch through the credits at the end of Halo 1, you see him floating off from the wreckage of Halo 1)