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A note on scale
Posted By: L. Tankersley ("Cap'n Carnage") <leland@tridsys.com>	Date: 1/6/00 10:28 a.m.
In Response To: Halo stuff from the Expo (SiliconDream=PN=) > We met Marty O'Donnell at the Bungie booth, and he said that one > of the things he's looking into for Halo is dynamic music, where > tracks don't just turn on and off according to where you are and > what you do, but vary their "emotional intensity" by > altering individual instrument tracks and so forth while keeping > the same basic tune. This was planned and eventually abandoned for Myth 1 & 2, right? [What does this have to do with a note on scale? Music ... notes ... scales ... I crack myself up sometimes.] > Joe Staten (or Staaten, I forget how many a's) gave the diameter > of the Halo as 10,000 *miles* and stuck to this figure when I > asked him whether he meant kilometers. Regardless of whether it's 10,000 miles or 10,000 kilometers in diameter, it's honkin' big. The Earth is what, roughly 8,000 miles in diameter? I wonder if we should expect any planets to pass _THROUGH_ the Halo during the game. And the moon "Basis" orbiting Threshold must be close to 50,000 miles in diameter going by the trailer movie. Assuming roughly Earthlike density (probably not a good assumption, but whatever) that would mean it (the moon) has approximately 360 times Earth's mass, which makes it significantly more massive than Jupiter (and not all that much smaller, either - Jupiter is only about 90,000 miles in diameter). Actually, the size of the Halo compared to the size of Earth brings up an interesting idea about how the Halo might have been constructed... maybe it was built in a ring orbiting a planet and later moved? L. Tankersley ("Cap'n Carnage")

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Halo stuff from the Expo	SiliconDream=PN=	1/6/00 2:35 a.m.
Addendum...	SiliconDream=PN=	1/6/00 3:21 a.m.
Re: Addendum...	Forensic	1/6/00 7:09 a.m.
A note on scale	L. Tankersley ("Cap'n Carnage")	1/6/00 10:28 a.m.
Re: A note on scale	Forensic	1/6/00 10:44 a.m.
Re: A note on scale	Tyrbiter	1/6/00 3:19 p.m.
Re: A note on scale	Otokam	1/6/00 3:32 p.m.
Re: A note on scale	Picky	1/6/00 5:23 p.m.
Re: A note on scale	Nemesis	1/6/00 5:47 p.m.
Re: A note on scale	Mark Levin	1/8/00 12:54 a.m.
Context-Sensitive Music?	Loren Petrich	1/7/00 1:50 a.m.
Re: Context-Sensitive Music?	SiliconDream=PN=	1/7/00 2:47 a.m.
ROFL n/t	CyberBob =PN=	1/7/00 3:55 a.m.
Re: Context-Sensitive Music?	Mark Levin	1/7/00 11:17 a.m.
Re: Context-Sensitive Music?	Butcher	1/7/00 4:31 a.m.
Re: Context-Sensitive Music?	h'biki	1/8/00 8:49 a.m.
Re: Context-Sensitive Music?	Butcher	1/8/00 12:50 p.m.
Re: Context-Sensitive Music?	Chris Huff	1/8/00 6:08 p.m.