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Subject: Maximum Time Halo 04 will take to reach its blast radius
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This took me some time, so I think it is worthy of recognition in its own thread.

Ok, guessing the fact that it travels the speed of light or greater, you can calculate the maximum time Halo will reach its outer boundary.

Light year= 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers
Blast radius= 25, 000 light years

(9.5 x 10^13) x 25, 000 = 237,500,000,000,000,000 kilometers

Speed of light = 299,792.458 km/s

237,500,000,000,000,000 / 299,792.458 = 792214726095.61111774199469687793

So, the maximum time the blast will reach its boundary is:

* 792214726095.61111774199469687793 seconds or
* 13203578768.260185295699911614632 minutes or
* 220059646.13766975492833186024386 hours or
* 9169151.9224029064553471608434942 days or
* 1309878.8460575580650495944062135 weeks or
* 327469.71151438951626239860155336 months or
* 27289.142626199126355199883462780 years

Taken from my post in this thread.

[Edited on 5/23/2004 4:07:54 PM]

  • 05.23.2004 3:57 PM PDT
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Holy crap thats looks hard to do good job.....by the way can you do my math homework for me?

  • 05.23.2004 4:04 PM PDT
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And if there were to be 14 Halos to wipe the universe clean of all the flood's food, you can concur that the universe is 3,325,000,000,000,000,000 kilometers in diameter during the time of the Forerunners (the time the halos were built).

237,500,000,000,000 x 14 = 3,325,000,000,000,000,000

But one can suppose that during the year 2552, the universe has grown much larger, and if the human race were to travel faster than the speed of light to reach the outer boundaries of the universe (or to the outer boundaries of the blast radius), the human race can still survive if one or all halos are activated.

[Edited on 5/23/2004 4:09:07 PM]

  • 05.23.2004 4:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: stupidhead
Holy crap thats looks hard to do good job.....by the way can you do my math homework for me?


=P (that meaning it was a good remark and no, I will not do your math hw).

  • 05.23.2004 4:05 PM PDT
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that was crazy...

  • 05.24.2004 9:00 AM PDT
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*grins*

Not to put a damper on things... but there really is a much simpler means of determining this...

If a Light Year is defined as the "distance travelled by light in a single year" then...
at the speed of light, wouldn't the pulse reach 25,000 light years in 25,000 years?

  • 05.24.2004 9:04 AM PDT
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Posted by: Draerden
*grins*

Not to put a damper on things... but there really is a much simpler means of determining this...

If a Light Year is defined as the "distance travelled by light in a single year" then...
at the speed of light, wouldn't the pulse reach 25,000 light years in 25,000 years?


Ha. I was thinking about replying the same thing. I wondered if perhaps I was missing the point.

  • 05.24.2004 9:17 AM PDT
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yea but give him some slack...hey I didn't know how to do this

  • 05.24.2004 9:18 AM PDT
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No malice intended I swear. I just looked at the logic and boggled. I'm excellent with "problems", horrible with math.

If someone wants to do some painful math. Given that the Galaxy is 100,000 light years in diameter, how many halos (capable of scouring a radius of 25,000 light years) would be required to scour it entirely?

Given that you're talking about spheres, the simple answer of 4 is incorrect. There would be gaps.

  • 05.24.2004 9:25 AM PDT
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January 30, 2004 (Warthog's Day)
The Master Chief emerged from his code. After seeing his dynamically lit realtime shadow, he went back for 9 more months of development.


Behold the power of the Originals, the Gods Axeone-Neurone.

Composition of the Milky Way
* 50,000 light year radius
* 300 light year width
* 16,000 light year radius buldge at the center

Other than the center the galaxly can be considered a disk.

[color="orange"]Break up of the Halos
* 1 at the galactic center
* 4 25,000 light years from the galactic center on the x-axis
* 8 around the edge of the galaxy on the x-axis

13 would be the minimum to cover the galaxy[/color]

[color="violet"]The Sol system is 30,000 lights years from the galctic center. Therefore we are outside the blast radius of the center Halo and may have only been under the area of installation 04.[/color]

  • 05.24.2004 10:21 AM PDT
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So what are you saying?

  • 06.14.2004 7:28 PM PDT
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It wouldn't take 25,000 years as light year means how long it takes for light to travel not in a single year.

[Edited on 6/14/2004 7:54:39 PM]

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