#halo tech

[infinityactual]

My fav part about halo is the look of human tech it feels right ya know like somthing we would build actually i would say our stuff is very functional looking while the covent is all very fancy

Yes, I agree. UNSC ships are bricks with guns and engines stuck on with duct tape and the weaponry and armor feels right too even if the Pelican is a shit design in practice, were one to be built, It just feels solid.

Then you have the fancy deep sea aesthetic of the Covenant, which sort of speaks to the fact that their tech is way advanced while humanity, relatively speaking, isn't.

I DO wish the Forerunner tech was a little more unique from UNSC tech in overall looks, though. It's just a tiny bit too similar.

[halotech]

Diabetes explained in details.

[naturallyaspirated]

So uhhhhhh,

A standard ship-based MAC fires slugs of either ferric Tungsten or depleted Uranium and approximately 9.1 meters long at around 30,000 meters per second. The high muzzle speed gives the 600-ton slug the kinetic energy and momentum necessary to damage a target and partially mitigates the unguided nature of the slug and its lack of maneuverability. Orbital Defense Platforms fire a 3,000-ton slug at four-hundredths, or 4% of, the speed of light, around 12,000 kilometers per second. (LINK)

The ship-based one has a kinetic energy of 245x10^-12 joules or 245 Terajoules.

For context: "About 63 TJ of energy was released by the atomic bomb that exploded over Hiroshima."

However, the big guy has a KE of 196x10^-18 joules! That's 196 Exajoules, or about 800,000 times more energy than the small one!

For context: "Yearly U.S. energy consumption amounts to roughly 94 EJ."

Holy hot damn! How was Master Chef's bum ass the the thing that saved the human race? Like, next to every other piece of tech in that game, genetic engineering is weaaaak.

The human race could build and power an entire orbital GRID of these things, could use warp travel, created actual AI, and could fling rocks at 4%c, but wolverine was the only thing that could win the fight? Wild!