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Re: 1 million tests per month
Posted By: Stephen L. (SoundEffect) <soundeffect@hotmail.com>	Date: 4/3/08 4:10 p.m.
: In our world its an exact figure because a guy in Bungie thought it up. : I like to think that the beam tower discharges were test firings. It would be : pretty cool because when you first see the pulses going up into the sky : you wonder what they are. You are also wondering what the ring is for at : the same time. : So its cool if you are actually seeing what the ring is all about: a gun : pointed at the head of the universe, and its still smoking. You wouldn't : appreciate it at the time but you'd make the connection later when : Sparky(?) says his line. : 1.2 trillion seems a bit low. IMS Its ~ 22 tests per minute. If the beam : tower was firing every 16 seconds then that's just a bit shy of 4 per : minute. There would only be ~ 5 beam towers involved in the tests and what : are the odds that you would land near one of them? : Unless they mean the other trillion but that's a million times larger. Thats : ~ 5 million beam towers. What is the surface area of the ring? What area : does a beam tower occupy? How far apart would they be? : The exact figure per minute is 22.83105022 83105022 83105022 83105... : or 22.83105022r The land surface area of a Halo is about 9.9 million square km....oh, wait, was that rhetorical? I can probably estimate the footprint of a Halo 1 beam tower if you ask nicely...

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