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	Re: Jumping in Halo
	Posted By: hero	Date: 11/6/01 10:15 p.m.
	In Response To: Re: Jumping in Halo (Chris Bisoski) : Weapons: AR=30 pounds : Pistols=10 pounds x2 : TOZ-T=25 pounds : SPNKR=40 pounds : WSTE-M=20 pounds x2 : Fusion pistol=15 pounds : SMG=15 pounds : Alien weapon=30 pounds : Ammo: AR=.5 pounds per clip, 15 clips, 5 pounds per grenade clip, 8 grenade : clips, plus one of each in the weapon. : Pistols=.5 pounds per clip, 50 clips, plus one of each in both pistols (+2). : TOZ-T:7 pounds per canister, 3 canisters, plus one in the weapon. : SPNKR=15 pounds per rack, 4 racks, plus one in the weapon. : WSTE-M:.2 pounds per clip, 80 clips, plus one in each weapon (+2). : Fusion pistol=5 pounds per battery, 25 batteries, plus one in the weapon. : SMG=7 pounds per clip, 6 clips, plus one in the weapon. : Items: Four Biobus Enhancements (5 pounds each). : One uplink chip, one repair chip (5 pounds each-they were big chips). : When we add all of this, we get an insane weight of : 215+8+45+26+28+75+16.4+130+49+20+10 pounds. What is that number? : 622.4 pounds!!!! : Now. Our friend the Marine is, of course, a cyborg. One would assume he would : be able to lift this much weight. : But run across an entire asteroid, a large planet, several space stations, : several starships, and more of the same planet while carrying all of this? : Granted, alloys will no doubt become much lighter in the next 700 years, but : it's still a prodigious amount of weight to be running around fighting : with...even if the Marine is strong enough to carry all of this, inertia : (if he carried, let's say, only 300 pounds of stuff) would carry him much : farther than it does. : Although...this does explain why he can't jump. That's not really accurate. Assault rifle should roughly equal 10 lbs. A fully loaded pistol should weigh in at around 2 lbs; the SMG would come in at around 5lbs. These are generous estimates based on [i]modern[/i] weapons!!! I would estimate a combat shotgun weighing in around the assault rifle, 10 lbs. I have no clue for the weight of a flamethrower or rocket launcher, but in both of these cases the weight would be distributed over the shoulders/back, so it wouldn't be too bad. I cannot estimate the weight of the fusion pistol or alien weapon for the obvious reasons :-). But chew on this--have you ever tried to hold a 15lb weight at arm's length for any period of time? Its not easy. I understand the Marine is a cyborg, but the pistol must have been designed with mere humans in mind, yes? And what the heck did they put in it to make it weigh 15lbs anyway??? Anyway, what always got me was not the fact that the marine would have to carry all this stuff, but the bulk of it. I mean, you can't just put an RPG [i]launcher[/i] in your back pocket, can you??? hero I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the world goes dim and cold. I am hero.

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	Jumping in Halo	Mojo	10/30/01 12:56 p.m.
	Re: Jumping in Halo	[Tycho?]	10/30/01 1:14 p.m.
	Ah yes	Mojo	10/30/01 2:38 p.m.
	folding space and anti gravity	Chris Bisoski	10/31/01 11:47 a.m.
	Re: folding space and anti gravity	Hamish Sinclair	10/31/01 11:57 a.m.
	Re: folding space and anti gravity	Chris Bisoski	10/31/01 5:20 p.m.
	Re: folding space and anti gravity	Hamish Sinclair	10/31/01 9:19 p.m.
	The Reading List	Claude Errera	11/2/01 5:33 a.m.
	Re: The Reading List	Hamish Sinclair	11/2/01 8:33 a.m.
	Re: folding space and anti gravity	Martin Antell	11/1/01 12:48 a.m.
	Re: folding space and anti gravity	Chris Bisoski	11/1/01 1:59 a.m.
	Re: folding space and anti gravity	Martin Antell	11/1/01 11:34 a.m.
	Re: folding space and anti gravity	[Tycho?]	11/1/01 12:09 p.m.
	Re: folding space and anti gravity	Martin Antell	11/1/01 12:21 p.m.
	Re: folding space and anti gravity	[Tycho?]	11/1/01 12:15 p.m.
	Re: Jumping in Halo	Tycho7en	10/31/01 1:33 p.m.
	Re: Jumping in Halo	Inverted Sock Puppet	10/31/01 7:34 p.m.
	Re: Jumping in Halo	{mAc}Dark Eagle	10/31/01 11:00 p.m.
	Re: Jumping in Halo	Chris Bisoski	11/1/01 2:05 a.m.
	Re: Jumping in Halo	Martin Antell	11/1/01 11:29 a.m.
	Re: Jumping in Halo	{mAc}Dark Eagle	11/1/01 11:36 a.m.
	Re: Jumping in Halo	Martin Antell	11/1/01 11:47 a.m.
	Re: Jumping in Halo	Inverted Sock Puppet	11/1/01 11:36 p.m.
	Re: Jumping in Halo	hero	11/6/01 10:15 p.m.

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