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Subject: Do you guys think the ancient humans could have escaped?


Posted by: cph645
I was watching one of the Halo 4 trailers and I had an idea. What if the ancient humans, fearing extinction, sent out colonization teams. What if they picked a few close by galaxies, pointed a million or so people to each one, and said "go survive"?

Speculate!

Posted by: cph645
I was watching one of the Halo 4 trailers and I had an idea. What if the ancient humans, fearing extinction, sent out colonization teams. What if they picked a few close by galaxies, pointed a million or so people to each one, and said "go survive"?

Speculate!
They didn't they went ancient humans only forerunners who dropped the humans off at planet earth.

  • 10.25.2012 4:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: Wolverfrog

Posted by: RKOSNAKE
100,000 years is not enough time for a civilization to advance to be honest.


Mate, we went from mud huts to skyscrapers and from donkeys to spacecraft in way less than 10,000 years. 100,000 years is more than long enough.


You say that we went from mud huts to skyscrapers in lss than 10,000 years, that may be correct (although not every country has them and many are still in the state you just mentioned, using mud huts and donkeys), but that's an easy achievement to be honest, we just use better materials and we have been doing the same thing for the last thousands of years. If you look at it, skyscrapers take as much technological advancement as a pyramid, maybe even less seeing how most pyramids will probably be around past the time a skyscraper will be, so it's not really a good example to say that we went from huts to skyscrapers in less than 10,000 years when you're comparing that to the advancement of a tier 1 civilization.

Take the Covenant as an example, been stuck in Tier 2 for the entirety of its existence, while we were building pyramids they were already on space, being a tier 2 and yet they did NOT advance that much in 100,000 years (seeing how ridiculously weak they would be compared to any Forerunner construct).

  • 10.25.2012 5:43 PM PDT

Not just technologically but also biologically. They most likely would not look like us but close enough to know the link. like Humans to the Navii from avater.

  • 10.25.2012 5:46 PM PDT

To rkosnake Humanity has enough time. A better example would be a stick to a nuke or the computer you are using to view this or even the popular bugati car. In the next few thousand years i wouldn't be surprised if we went and colonized the solar system with exception to gas planets. And the covenect was probably stuck in tier 2 because they are biolically dumber than us lol... Jk i dont have a answer to the covenent being tier 2 for that long.

[Edited on 10.25.2012 5:51 PM PDT]

  • 10.25.2012 5:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: Exile Warrior
To rkosnake Humanity has enough time. A better example would be a stick to a nuke or the computer you are using to view this or even the popular bugati car. In the next few thousand years i wouldn't be surprised if we went and colonized the solar system with exception to gas planets. And the covenect was probably stuck in tier 2 because they are biolically dumber than us lol... Jk i dont have a answer to the covenent being tier 2 for that long.


Their religion impeded their advancement, sadly I can see that happening to us.

  • 10.25.2012 6:18 PM PDT

only way ancient humans survived are through geas. don't think ancient humans had the ability to live as long as the forerunners did

  • 10.25.2012 6:30 PM PDT
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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.

Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.


Posted by: Wolverfrog

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Posted by: Wolverfrog

Posted by: RKOSNAKE
100,000 years is not enough time for a civilization to advance to be honest.


Mate, we went from mud huts to skyscrapers and from donkeys to spacecraft in way less than 10,000 years. 100,000 years is more than long enough.

But we also spent the thousands and thousands of years before that with our most advanced piece of technology being either a sharp rock or fire. If the ancient humans had technology, and considering they needed spaceships to get to another galaxy they probably do, they are likely much more advanced than us.


I thought that's what I was saying?

And I am agreeing with you. Unless the ancient humans decided to go the SPOILERS SPOILERS Battlestar Galactica route and fly all their tech into the sun, the other humans will probably be very advanced.

  • 10.25.2012 6:54 PM PDT

In memory of those fallen in the defense of Earth and her colonies.

March 3, 2553

The forerunners devolved Humans. So I doubt it.

  • 10.25.2012 7:07 PM PDT

This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends;
Not with a bang but a whimper.

"close by galaxy." That's an oxymoron. The closest is Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, which has only about 1 billion stars, most of which are red giants. Perhaps not the most conducive to life.

  • 10.25.2012 7:40 PM 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."

It could be possible, but inter-galactic travel is a large distance to travel, even with slipspace technology.

  • 10.25.2012 9:18 PM PDT

Any ancient Humans that escaped the Human -Forerunner war would have been wiped out by the Halo Arrays. We might see a few in a flash back in Halo 4, but I think that's going to be the extent of it.

  • 10.25.2012 10:04 PM PDT


Posted by: RKOSNAKE

Posted by: Wolverfrog

Posted by: RKOSNAKE
100,000 years is not enough time for a civilization to advance to be honest.


Mate, we went from mud huts to skyscrapers and from donkeys to spacecraft in way less than 10,000 years. 100,000 years is more than long enough.


You say that we went from mud huts to skyscrapers in lss than 10,000 years, that may be correct (although not every country has them and many are still in the state you just mentioned, using mud huts and donkeys), but that's an easy achievement to be honest, we just use better materials and we have been doing the same thing for the last thousands of years. If you look at it, skyscrapers take as much technological advancement as a pyramid, maybe even less seeing how most pyramids will probably be around past the time a skyscraper will be, so it's not really a good example to say that we went from huts to skyscrapers in less than 10,000 years when you're comparing that to the advancement of a tier 1 civilization.

Take the Covenant as an example, been stuck in Tier 2 for the entirety of its existence, while we were building pyramids they were already on space, being a tier 2 and yet they did NOT advance that much in 100,000 years (seeing how ridiculously weak they would be compared to any Forerunner construct).


Are you seriously saying a Pyramid is at the same level of something like the Burj Khalifa? I'm no Architect by any stretch of the imagination, but I study Physical Geography and part of that is looking into the design of modern architecture to see how it's built to cope with natural hazards and such - the technology in these kinds of buildings is insane, a lot more advanced than bricks thrown on top of each other.

The Covenant's been stuck in Tier 2 because they copied everything from a Tier 1 species, and did so in an inferior manner. If one thing's been reiterated more times in the franchise than anything else, it's that the Covenant imitate, they don't innovate.

In a few hundred years, we've made more advancement than the Covenant made in 5,000. In another few decades, we'll have surpassed them.

  • 10.26.2012 2:40 AM PDT

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