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Subject: Space Elevator?
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Ok, that thing in the far backround of the announcement trailer. It looks like a bunch of metal wreckage from the thing at the center of New Mombasa before it was wrecked from the slipspace jump. Is that the space elevator? If it is, can any of you tell me what exactly a space elevator is/does? If it is in fact an elevator to space, where does it go to in space? Hopefully there is someone out there who can tell us.

I just realized-the thing right above my avatar.

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  • 06.30.2006 2:39 PM PDT
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You're right about the recage from the trailer being the space elevator and to answer your quistion the space elevator is an elevator that goes to space, probably to some space station.

  • 06.30.2006 2:42 PM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

Yes it is the wreckage of the space elevator/teather.

Wikipedia can explain it better than I ever could :)

  • 06.30.2006 2:43 PM PDT

well there goes all theories of "the trailer is in paris" theories (those idiots)

  • 06.30.2006 2:45 PM PDT
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yes that was the space elevator seen on the mombasa levels in H2 it was destroyed when the covenent ship done a slipspace jump in the middle of the city and it does what it says on the tin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator and it would join to a orbital station

  • 06.30.2006 2:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: Guscon
Yes it is the wreckage of the space elevator/teather.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator]Wikipedia[/u rl] can explain it better than I ever could :)

interesting, thanx

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  • 06.30.2006 2:48 PM PDT
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I don't know anything about it, but I think it was that big tower in New Mombasa in Halo 2.

  • 06.30.2006 2:49 PM PDT

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i think its no space Elevator why bungie called it the teather or something like that and another thing when your finish the level where you jump out of he cario station and land on the amber clad she says "where taken this fight to the surface" i saw no gaint tower going into space guys. If only they kept new Mombassa in the air like in the E3 trailer it would make more since then. It does state there is but I just cant see a gaint pole coming out of earth.

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  • 06.30.2006 2:56 PM PDT
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I would think that something that goes that high would be a REALLY unstable structure, even if it is in the future.

  • 06.30.2006 2:58 PM PDT