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Subject: Does the UNSC have anti-gravity?

On countdown??? Or is it a wind lift? How could wind possibly lift a 1000 pound spartan? (I'm assuming it's UNSC because its a Sabre launching site and covies don't have sabres.

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  • 05.30.2012 6:32 PM PDT

"I may not be perfect, but always been true."

How can wind lift up a helicopter?

  • 05.30.2012 7:22 PM PDT

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That "wind" is the same force that pushes helicopters and planes

OT: They use rotation to simulate gravtiy

  • 05.30.2012 7:36 PM PDT

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Posted by: Sigma617

Posted by: Elitepwnsaur169
OT: They use rotation to simulate gravtiy


I don't quite buy that.
Most UNSC vessels have rotating floors to simulate gravity. Ships also have artifical gravity, but it uses up a lot of resources.

  • 05.30.2012 9:30 PM PDT


Posted by: Avatar Korra

Posted by: Sigma617

Posted by: Elitepwnsaur169
OT: They use rotation to simulate gravtiy


I don't quite buy that.
Most UNSC vessels have rotating floors to simulate gravity. Ships also have artifical gravity, but it uses up a lot of resources.


No UNSC ships we have seen have visible rotating sections.

On a side note, how do frigates hover a few kilometers off the ground with no visible downward-facing engines?

  • 05.31.2012 12:06 AM PDT

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Posted by: katamariguy

Posted by: Avatar Korra

Posted by: Sigma617

Posted by: Elitepwnsaur169
OT: They use rotation to simulate gravtiy


I don't quite buy that.
Most UNSC vessels have rotating floors to simulate gravity. Ships also have artifical gravity, but it uses up a lot of resources.


No UNSC ships we have seen have visible rotating sections.

On a side note, how do frigates hover a few kilometers off the ground with no visible downward-facing engines?
Read up on your canon.

Frigates have reverse engineered gravity plates on the bottom of the ship. That's what makes them hover in atmosphere.

  • 05.31.2012 4:10 AM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

It's called gameplay factors, you silly head.

  • 05.31.2012 7:32 AM PDT

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Hipi07, you are in the wrong forum. This is where canon dwellers lurk deep in the mire of conjecture and fact. Nothing is purely gameplay in here. All here is treated as real. Oddly, this is familiar to you, as if it were from an old dream, but you can't exactly remember.....

  • 05.31.2012 8:14 AM PDT

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Posted by: TheSilverhead
Oddly, this is familiar to you, as if it were from an old dream, but you can't exactly remember.....
I swear i've read a quote like this before. Is it a quote?

  • 05.31.2012 8:47 AM PDT

Posted by: ElementalRunner

Posted by: Commander Stroll
Still using a pump-action shotgun over 500 years in the future I see.

omg not realistic stop game production plz

I always believed that UNSC ships have anti-gravity, but have not fully understoof or perfected it due to a high energy input required.

Example: Frigates are just about "light" enough to be help up by anti-gravity technology. But the Pillar of Autumn required 6 of those additional thrusters (as seen in Halo: Reach) because the Autumn would not have been able to take off from dry-dock using its anti-gravity alone; the anti-grav tech cannot hold the Autumn up by its own.

  • 05.31.2012 10:08 AM PDT

Straight from the wandering mind of Watson 203


Posted by: Avatar Korra

Posted by: TheSilverhead
Oddly, this is familiar to you, as if it were from an old dream, but you can't exactly remember.....
I swear i've read a quote like this before. Is it a quote?


Scroll up to the top of your page.

  • 05.31.2012 10:27 AM PDT

Am I supposed to write something funny here?


Posted by: CoolCJ24
I always believed that UNSC ships have anti-gravity, but have not fully understoof or perfected it due to a high energy input required.

Example: Frigates are just about "light" enough to be help up by anti-gravity technology. But the Pillar of Autumn required 6 of those additional thrusters (as seen in Halo: Reach) because the Autumn would not have been able to take off from dry-dock using its anti-gravity alone; the anti-grav tech cannot hold the Autumn up by its own.

But 2.5 km Phoenixes have anti-grav. My guess is that the stuff is expensive, so only "light" FFG's get full anti-grav, along with colony ships. The others get enough for controlled crash.

Reasonable?

  • 05.31.2012 10:42 AM PDT

Posted by: ElementalRunner

Posted by: Commander Stroll
Still using a pump-action shotgun over 500 years in the future I see.

omg not realistic stop game production plz


Posted by: Gamer Whale

Posted by: CoolCJ24
I always believed that UNSC ships have anti-gravity, but have not fully understoof or perfected it due to a high energy input required.

Example: Frigates are just about "light" enough to be help up by anti-gravity technology. But the Pillar of Autumn required 6 of those additional thrusters (as seen in Halo: Reach) because the Autumn would not have been able to take off from dry-dock using its anti-gravity alone; the anti-grav tech cannot hold the Autumn up by its own.

But 2.5 km Phoenixes have anti-grav. My guess is that the stuff is expensive, so only "light" FFG's get full anti-grav, along with colony ships. The others get enough for controlled crash.

Reasonable?

Yeah, that sounds reasonable; I completely forgot about Spirit of Fire. :S

  • 05.31.2012 11:06 AM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

They use super-industrial turbines spinning at a billion rpm to lift stuff up the tubes...I think.

  • 05.31.2012 11:24 AM PDT
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Posted by: katamariguy

Posted by: Avatar Korra

Posted by: Sigma617

Posted by: Elitepwnsaur169
OT: They use rotation to simulate gravtiy


I don't quite buy that.
Most UNSC vessels have rotating floors to simulate gravity. Ships also have artifical gravity, but it uses up a lot of resources.


No UNSC ships we have seen have visible rotating sections.

On a side note, how do frigates hover a few kilometers off the ground with no visible downward-facing engines?


Older UNSC ships have rotating sections. The UNSC eventually reverse-derpified covenant technology and began working it into their ships. I remember hearing somewhere that they use special plates for anti-gravity, but other than that, it's never been explained.

  • 05.31.2012 11:37 AM PDT

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Posted by: Watson 203

Posted by: Avatar Korra

Posted by: TheSilverhead
Oddly, this is familiar to you, as if it were from an old dream, but you can't exactly remember.....
I swear i've read a quote like this before. Is it a quote?


Scroll up to the top of your page.
*facepalm*

Of course...

  • 05.31.2012 12:00 PM PDT

I would imagine they would since it's 540 years from now.

  • 05.31.2012 12:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
I would imagine they would since it's 540 years from now.

Yeah, if you look how rapidly technology advanced in the past century (at an exponential rate) I'm quite sure we'll have the technology for that in 540 years.

  • 05.31.2012 12:55 PM PDT

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See, even that quote seemed familiar to you. On topic, I think they have the UNSC's usual modus operandi of ghetto tech. Spartan armor and shields are reverse engineered. Shy do elites have better shields? Because their armor is smooth. Spartan armor is 'cobbled' up, not refined like the Elites'. Same for this.

  • 05.31.2012 2:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: TheSilverhead
See, even that quote seemed familiar to you. On topic, I think they have the UNSC's usual modus operandi of ghetto tech. Spartan armor and shields are reverse engineered. Shy do elites have better shields? Because their armor is smooth. Spartan armor is 'cobbled' up, not refined like the Elites'. Same for this.

Elites don't have better shields though. Lieutenant Harveson murdered a Huragok because it had seen the specs for Mjolnir's shielding system, and wanted no risk of the Covenant getting it as it would mean Elites running around with shields that are stronger and recharge faster.

  • 05.31.2012 3:04 PM PDT
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Don't do anything you wouldn't want to have to explain to paramedics. Trust me, I'm a pilot.

The UNSC has anti-gravity technology in the form of anti-gravity plates, but this technology is considered to be outdated.

This type of system is used on older ships and orbital platforms, such as the Tiara on Harvest and the Pillar of Autumn.

Newer ships have rotating sections that spin at a specific rate in order to generate enough centrifugal force to generate a sufficient outward force to match the force of gravity on Earth. One such example is the UNSC Atlas from the Fall of Reach.

  • 05.31.2012 4:06 PM PDT

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Really? I thought that increased linearity meant better shielding. The Spartan shields original come from Kig Yar shield gauntlets, no? I though that the Spartan's shields were weaker because they had to be bent non-linearly, making them weaker. Thus, elite shields seems like they would be stronger because their armor is more flat, linear surfaces with more emmiters. Right? Wow, off topic.

  • 05.31.2012 5:47 PM PDT