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Halo Science - Ringworlds and Plasma Weapons
The book Halo Effect is an intriguing title that takes a look Bungie's best-selling Halo titles from a number of different angles. Each chapter includes coverage of specific elements; included are descriptions of pro events, a bit on the development process, and the making of the Red vs. Blue series. One of the most interesting chapters takes a look at the science behind the Halo world, talking about the physics and logic behind ringworlds and the hi-tech weaponry seen in the game. Thanks in part to a mini-review of the book on the GameSetWatch site, Gamasutra has been allowed to reprint the entire 'science of Halo' chapter on their website. "A 5,000 kilometer radius would yield a circumference of roughly 31,400 kilometers. If we assume a width-to-radius ratio similar to that of Niven's Ringworld, they would be approximately 5.37 kilometers wide. They are significantly wider, though, at 320 kilometers. The Halos, then, would have a surface area of 10 million square kilometers - slightly larger than the surface area of Canada, and approximately 2 percent of the surface area of Earth. Of course, since we know that there are lakes, seas, and rivers on the Halos, the livable surface area would be fractionally less." Update: 05/02 18:30 GMT by Z : The initial version of the article posted was from pre-production and contained some errors. They've been fixed in the article and now here in the post as well.
the inhabitants would be angsty aggressive teenagers, so we need to tugboat the ring into a the sun.
maybe the pale folk would finally see some sun
If your neighbours roof is flying past your window, you know it's cyclone season.
There's a reason this was posted by an AC. Please note the "Coward" portion of the name and start modding this shit down.
That, and a radius of 5000kms from our Sun would put you squarely in an area of space you wouldn't want to spend much time in.
Newark?
-- toolie
Actually, it's more directed towards anything uniquely, or at least characteristically French. Since the metric system is much more widely used than in just France. So, Metric gets a pass on being classified as one of those "French things" to be mocked. No, we mock the metric system as one of those "European things", which operates on a different scale altogether - fewer cheese-eating surrender-monkey references, for one.
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Ringtube!?! No, since you've dropped the functional component of the word (i.e. "world", what purpose it serves), and compounded two shape descriptors, ring and tube.
The correct term is Tubeworld. Despite the environmental problems you point out, this is clearly superior to aringworld, since it would be its own internet.
Canada uses it too! Does this mean it gets mocked less? ... why is everyone laughing?