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Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?
Posted By: Ain Soph Aur	Date: 10/7/04 12:18 a.m.
In Response To: Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill? (Dark Bastion) : Well Guilty Spark says something along the lines of "this installation : has a blast radius of so-and-so light-years," or something like that. : Which leads me to believe it's some kind of explosion, rather than a beam : of some kind. I imagined the ringworld itself exploding when fired, since : the Flood would be on Halo and, what the hell, if you're purging the : galaxy of life (the Flood's food), you might as well take as many of them : out with you as possible. The exact quote is "Techinically, this installation has a maximum effective radius of 25,000 light years. But once the others follow suit, this galaxy will be quite devoid of life. Or at least, any life with sufficient biomass to sustain the flood. But you already knew that. I mean, how couldn't you?" (my command of absolutely useless knowledge scares me sometimes). : Anyway, an astronomy professor once described to me what would happen if they : ever created a black hole in a particle accelerator here on earth and lost : control of it. Within the blink of an eye, everything you know would be : crushed into subatomic particles. So sadly, I don't think a halo going off : would provide much of a light show ... just total, uncompromising : destruction within seconds. Within a comparatively small radius. The fact is, nothing in regular 3D space moves faster than light. Thus, Halo would take at least 25,000 years to do it's dirty work. By which time the Flood could have moved on to another galaxy and be spared the destruction of the Milky Way. Therefore, I'm convinced that Halo does something involving a form of Slipspace.

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HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	tj	10/6/04 10:13 p.m.
All Sentient Life in Halo's firing range. *NM*	serpx	10/6/04 10:22 p.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	Death Box	10/6/04 10:29 p.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	Dr. Nick	10/6/04 10:48 p.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	insaneidiot432	10/6/04 10:36 p.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	Mantis819	10/6/04 11:47 p.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	Dark Bastion	10/6/04 11:53 p.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	Ain Soph Aur	10/7/04 12:18 a.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	Dark Bastion	10/7/04 1:43 a.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	Ain Soph Aur	10/7/04 1:56 a.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	vshields ash	10/7/04 12:07 a.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	munkeypantsman	10/7/04 3:36 a.m.
it goes boom *NM*	immortal kombattant	10/7/04 12:24 a.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	Louis Wu	10/7/04 10:32 a.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	10/7/04 12:13 p.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	Capo Rip	10/7/04 11:22 p.m.
Halo: The Galaxy's Lightswitch. *NM*	Saint [lpn]	10/8/04 11:47 p.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	Pico	10/7/04 1:44 p.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	Ain Soph Aur	10/7/04 3:10 p.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	Pico	10/7/04 5:24 p.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	LietLives	10/8/04 3:32 p.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	yakaman	10/7/04 12:17 p.m.
Re: HOW or WHAT does halo actually do to kill?	PsycoJoe	10/7/04 12:34 p.m.