When you look at the bigger picture, well...yeah.

+Alexander Langner It just sounds funny out of context.

hehe, I was about to comment the same. Not often that that sentence works.

That is utterly hilarious. I need to send that to my science teacher. xD

You know what's even funnier? The moment when you detect it is basically pretty much the same moment at which it blasts the hell outta you and the planet.

I’d imagine they’d make it travel from system to system using slipspace

No power. You have no power. Enjoy. Ps dont believe everything Kurtzgesagt claims, they make shit up or go on these wild assumptions all the time. They are not the word of God or anything. Just an interesting content channel that wants to have the final word on everything.

first: wtf is up with "you have no power" second:i have always known they over exaggerate there shit its the internet third:i never said i worship them and there word i was making a joke at how unsettling there content is but thats since am i right

You said you had little power over the destructive forces that could annihilate our entire shit. But in fact we have no power over them, at the moment. Perhaps in a few centuries, we could devise some kind of planetary shield to activate in case of emergencies such as gamma ray events or other unusually high levels of stellar radiation? But at the moment we are just scared little monkeys, cowering on our little blue pebble :P

we do have power over such things our technology is limited though and its pretty trash so i do have power but its limited

this video is GOD DAMN TERRIFYING!

oAnubis YT hahahahahahahahahaha...ha.

Not anymore, there's a blanket~♡

@@KawaiiPockyEater come on animals, let's go on land

Not anymore, there's a blanket~

Not anymore, there's a blanket

Exactly

Precisely.

+Katsarelas Food for thought: at the end of Silentium, just before the Didact fires the Halo rings from the Ark, he notes that he can detect the fact that they've already been fired, even though he's yet to do so. Thus, not only are they galactic WMD's, they're acausal galactic WMD's.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke I see you, Elder Scrolls. And every other fantasy world out there.

+Angus Miles So that's where they got those ideas for the Vex! They're researching acausal weaponry right now!

and the thout of them making black holes of energy is scary to

I'm with Austin on this... Halos are scary. But our real, observable universe is infinitely more. It's a literal miracle our planet and everything living has survived* (in that; life in its various forms, has not been /entirely/ obliterated) for over four billion years.

yeah hope my girlfriend never gets a hold of one, she'd press the trigger just for kicks.

man there not terrifying to me ...unless my girlfriend gets ahold of it then I'm a goner

+D TNT LeL crazy grilfriends LeL

Death Star on _extreme_ steroids: halo rings

Same

agreed

yes

+PMW3 They have made quite a bit of lore, would be a good addition.

Neither would I

The Lesser Halos didn't really outperform expectations. The Zeta Halo did however because of certain tinkering, which was later discussed in the story. The Halos are completely tune-able, which is even more terrifying should some idiot, Human, alien, or Monitor, decide it's necessary.

SMFDoomas I wasn't specifying the Lesser Ark's Halos. In the design process they weren't intended to destroy neural physical constructs, being as up to that point the Forerunners had no idea that the Flood was capable of using neural physics. I consider that exceeding expectations.

+Lennard Church Well you only said, "The Halos". The Halos did exactly what they were expected to do. The Master Builder tuned Zeta Halo to SPECIFICALLY destroy Precursor structures when he test fired them. To anyone outside of this knowledge, it would appear to be doing more than planned. But that result was exactly what the Master Builder wanted.

SMFDoomas I have the books on me. Could you give me a page reference for the Master Builder deliberately tuning the Halo to destroy the Neural Physical structures for the initial test firing on the former Precursor hub world first mentioned in Halo: Cryptum, page 102?

+Lennard Church I don't have the book on me, cause I recently finished the audio book for Silentium (?). The Master Builder admits to his crimes near the end of the book before they set about activating the Array. I'll check my physical copy if I have after I finish work.

Could Necrons exist? Or could Space Marine power armour actually work?

Yessssssssss

I wholeheartedly agree

hell yeah I agree with that

+Demons OFDice Yes this needs to happen. Tell us uf the Primarchs or the Astartes are even possible

Exactly.

+Hylia's Hero Right ! And the Halo's "wawes" are supposed tu torn appart the calcium atoms from anything they touch wich is never told in this video

Ok

That's actually just a few gods de-boning some of their meals for later. And ironically enough, boning them in the process.

*badum-tss*

I really wish that would work. But the problem is, if you have too much ozone, it kills you. And it takes A RIDICULOUS amount of energy to make, and we couldn't put it in the atmosphere very well. The only thing I can even slightly think of is using a wave in equal strength outward to stop it, and I have no idea I that would work

Naw man just get the turtle wax and a really big buffing tool. Could do it by hand but only if you saw karate kid.

+Not Applicable sadly we don't have the tech for that and probably never will. But some good news is running certain vehicles produces ozone so that's a bonus.

But it wasn't really proven that Earth's ozone layer is protecting us from UW rays. It just might be useless.

Too bad all we did was rip a fucking hole in it. *facepalm*

Cthulhu approves this video.

Lol

+Jack D oh Timmy you think your home of sticks and drywall will save you, that's just so precious.

+Jeff Briese Dude, it's a joke.

+SpeedStriker More like nestled up deep within our mantle.

+Jake M. Do you mean wyrm like a dragon or do you mean like an earthworm? Both of them work

+Ephemis Priest Damn nature, you scary!

I am 100%.

Or they'd *pass out* and then burn to death. Remember, nitrous oxide in sufficient doses is a sedative. Still not a bad way to go. At least you wouldn't feel it.

dear Bethesda what the fuck is the eye of magnus

+ShoddyCast How do the drugs in fallout still work?. My paracetamol goes off after a year, what happens after several hundred?

The Halo rings were created by the Forerunner to imprison the flood. The Forerunner er were almost completely wiped out by the flood. in there last attempts to save there race they made the Halo rings. Their civilization was highly super advanced. So we can't yet understand

there's a bunch of Halo books you can read

have you ever wondered how call of duty has gunfights in space o-o

Lol

reference to johnson?

+Cog Gear obviously.

+Raul Lopez I thought it was God's Anti Son of A Bitch Machine.

I thought they were gods giant finger or ear rings, but god's Hula Hoops sound awesome.

Perfect

Perfectly balanced like all things should be

Flood samples were stored on every Installation, some Shield Worlds, and even The Ark. The Forerunners knew that the Flood couldn't be cured as the hosts body was bent and broken, and their brain would have been either destroyed or consumed. The Flood isn't a virus, it's a sentient organism that learns from each and every being it devours and assimilates.

@@adventurethroughtime no the librarian did leave the flood alive in order for some other race to try to understand and cure the flood (in the way or eradicating them biologically) as she thought humans could surpass forerunners, and she actually made sure if this.

yeah, and it wasn't like I ever would like to sleep again anyway

Just think about it, it has a higher chance of happening than you winning the lottery 500,000 times in a row on every ticket you purchase ever. happy :D

Possibly, especially since Karma hasn't EVER payed me back on anything so maybe something good will happen to me. You know like Trump getting assasinated along with his racist biggot running mate that believes Gays can be electronically shocked into being straight

Yes !!! Lets call Floyd or Wade or Slade or anyone else you can think of

Well, it's pretty easily allayed anyway. Apparently Earth is outta range of any known nova capable stars, so yay. Not to not worry though, we'll still get eaten by the sun one day.

Yeah, forerunners took humans and other species from planets, froze them for, I'm going with 500 years, maybe way less, then after that they sent them back and they repopulated the planets they originated from. Something like that, I haven't seen the video in a long time.

+NINmann01 Because at least gamma radiation makes fuckin' sense man, do you have any idea how absurd "harmonically tuned neutrinos to specifically target the nervous system of macroorganisms" actually sounds? Not to mention, if these particles are travelling through "slip-space" then how are they at all interacting with the universe, they are traveling FASTER then time. And another thing, neutrinos have fuckin' mass and oscillate, so even if you DID "harmonically tune" them they would change flavours and you can't fuckin' stop that, at least light travels at c and only decays in strength over distance. The important part is this, if the Forerunners had the technology to overcome all of these super huge physics problems to make and operate working Halos, then there is absolutely no reason they could not just wipe out the Flood. The level of technology on display gives me no other option.

+NINmann01 Was searching the comments for someone wrecking the inaccuracies in this video. Thank you good sir.

+Brandon Lokison What part of last resort do you not understand? The Flood had remnant Precursor star roads to help them crush the Forerunners along with an AI (Mendicant Bias) that betrayed the Forerunners. He was the biggest key player in the downfall of the Forerunners but it was the star roads that really let them win.

+NINmann01 What about Larry Niven's Ringworld books? Those came LONG before halo was even a glimmer in anyone's eye.

cool...

same

I never went to bed its 6:01 am right now :P

I know how you feel

Hilarious (?)

AK 12 over m16 anyday for me:)

Carlos Guijón You would know what I'm talking about if you were in the army. Of course it's not funny to you

Tech Core I was an army brat, and not being in the army I get the joke xD I mean, it's not hard to understand if you know you stuff, some people just like to troll.

And I thought I was going crazy when I heard the Army song playing XD

Oh yes. When I hear that piece starts, I start paying attention.

+woestewouter96 I should assume by more than half, as the total area the cylinder would cover would be 8.84x10^7. With the thickness of the galaxy being 10K - 30K this number would be more like 2.45x10^8 the closer you get to the center of the galaxy. I would calculate farther but I'm short on time and don't actually, know how to calculate the energy needed for that amount.

+woestewouter96 Suddenly, the Death Star and planet explosions make more sense

Dawan YT You're probably be in unbearable pain, but okay.

NotRealButReal Being immortal means all your loved ones will eventually be gone and you'll be alone.

NotRealButReal At least I responded.

As someone who has studied a lot of astrophysics, gamma ray bursts would be the least of an immortal person's problems, and to survive, an immortal person would have to find a way to escape to another universe at some point. The universe will only be habitable for so long, and eventually nearly everything in it, from stars to galaxies to even black holes, they all have to die at some point. Exhibit A - All the stars in the universe will eventually die, and there will be no more fuel to birth new stars. Stars are born from massive stellar nursery nebulas. These are not replenished by the deaths of stars. Exploding stars create nebulas, but they are less massive than the star they came from and not dense enough to form another star as a tenth or so at the very least is locked in whatever remnant the star left behind, be it a neutron star or black hole. The way supernovas create stars is that they send shockwaves through the nebula and populate it with the heavier elements that the star made in its lifetime as well as the elements made in the supernova itself. The shockwave creates waves of density in the nebula that form stars. Eventually though, all of the nebula is used up, and star formation stops. After that, the universe enters a period where all that is left are the low mass red stars, as all the other more massive stars in the universe die much faster than they do. These stars would exist for trillions of years or more, but they to will eventually run out of fuel, and the universe will go dark. Exhibit B - Now, this isn't the end of the universe. It's just getting started. The age of stars is over. The age of black holes begins. It has a very Lovecraftian sort of feel to it, really. The universe, no longer replenished with stars, is now ruled by their remnants. Galaxies are entirely made up of black holes, neutron stars, and white and black dwarves. It's still a dynamic and interesting place, only things now happen on massive timescales (trillions or even quadrillions of years), and it's almost entirely dark, with the exception of black holes accreting material and colliding dwarf and neutron stars producing massive explosions that dwarf supernovas every now and then. Of course, after quadrillions of years, everything falls into black holes, and black hole merges with black hole until everything in every galaxy falls into their central black hole. Entire galaxy clusters could be consumed in this way. However, because of Hawking radiation, not even black holes last forever. They will all eventually radiate away all of their mass and explode at the end of their lives, and all that is left of our universe is an ever thinning stream of photons expanding for all eternity. Or would it? Exhibit C - So by now, immortal life forms are mostly fucked. But guess what? IT STILL GETS WORSE FROM HERE! At this point, there are two things that could happen to the universe. After an ungodly amount of time, the dark energy contained in the universe (which appears to be energy produced by empty space and increases as the universe expands) can and will reach such high levels that spacetime itself could just... disintigrate. That's really the best way to describe it. Pop, boom, no more universe, and everything in it is completely and inescapably fucked. Exhibit D - BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE STILL!!! See, the events of Exhibit C aren't very likely to happen because of one GOD DAMN TERRIFYING thing that quantum physics allows. And guess what? If the universe has an ungodly amount of bad luck, it could happen tomorrow. The probability of this happening tomorrow is an unfathomably small percentage, but it's still great enough that this must happen at some point in the history of the universe. What is this GOD DAMN TERRIFYING thing? Quantum phase transition. This is basically the phenomenon where a "glitch" as you might call it forms in the fabric of the universe due to the randomness of the quantum world. This glitch forms a bubble of what is essentially a new universe where new forces and laws of physics apply that expands from it's origin outward at the speed of light, overwriting the old universe in its wake. Everything in its way would have no warning and would be completely and utterly fucked before they knew what was going on. Yet another cold, unthinking,uncaring, unfeeling hand-of-god scenario. We know this can happen because it has happened already. Mere planck times after the Big Bang, an event that is known as inflation occured. Basically, the original force of the universe, called the "super-force," encountered a glitch super fast and split off into the fundamental forces we know today. This caused the universe to expand much, much faster than the speed of light for a while (basically went from a point smaller than an atom to about the size of a grapefruit in basically an instant. That may not sound big from our perspective, but the volume of the universe multiplied by a factor that can only be described by scientific notation in only a couple of plank times. THAT WAS REALLY FUCKING FAST!) and this is the reason the universe is so uniformly distributed as opposed to having huge dense spots and huge thin spots. Exhibit E - Oh. You thought I was done? *WELL SIT THE FUCK BACK, BUSTER! I SAVED THE MOST FUCKING TERRIFYING THING FOR LAST!!!* This one is actually pretty theoretical and somewhat unlikely, but if it is true, it is the weirdest ending for our universe and also the most terrifying. It is basically the zombie apocalypse of matter. See, the matter we see in our universe with the likely exception of dark matter is made up mostly of protons and neutrons. These things are made up of up and down quarks. There is another kind of quark out there however that could potentially mix with up and down quarks to form a stable particle, and that's the "strange quark." We've observed these in our particle accelerators and gave it this name because we scientists like to make everyone else feel more confused than we are at the existance of these things. These things are able in theory to form a stable form of matter with an up quark, a down quark, and a strange quark. This kind of particle is known as a "strangelet." These things can only form in energy fields of [insert incredibly massive number here] intensity. Not even supernovae or hypernovae can form these things. But do you know what might? Neutron star collisions. Now, what makes strangelets so *FUCKING TERRIFYING,* you might be asking? Well *PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR PANTS BE SHAT AND ALCHOHOL BE DRUNK FOR HOURS! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!!* When a stangelet and a particle of normal matter meet, something truely strange happens. The strangelet bounces away only having a little mass converted into gamma radiation, but the normal matter particle also loses mass that is converted to gamma radiation *AND IT IS ALSO TRANSFORMED INTO ANOTHER STRANGELET WHICH GOES ON TO COLLIDE WITH MORE PARTICLES OF NORMAL MATTER AND FORM EVEN MORE STRANGELETS!!!* The long term prognosis of this is ABSOLUTELY NOT GOOD! Planets, people, stars, galaxies, and eventually all the matter in all the universe explodes in a burst fo gamma radiation and is converted into what is basically zombie matter that may or may not be able to form atoms. EVERYTHING WOULD BE FUCKED!!! Fortunately, because we aren't made of strange matter, this theory is probably bullshit, but if it isn't and we just have been lucky so far, yet another cold, unthinking, uncaring, unfeeling hand-of-god scenario that destroys the entire universe. *FUN!!!* tl;dr 5 different GOD DAMN TERRIFYING ways that even immortal beings would be completely and utterly FUCKED if they remained un the universe forever. *TWO OF WHICH COULD HAPPEN TOMORROW!!!*

+Tonks Moriarty (ZNickel) what do you get when you cross an owl and a bungee cord? my ass.

It’s more like wormholes

I think the halo armour your refeering to is Mjolnir armour, and there are several types of armour, you have MK.4, MK.5, MK.6, SPI just to name a few.

True so very very true

Also, the later models of Mjolnir armor have some borderline-absurd liquid metal crystal layer that amplifies speed and strength by a factor of 5. An un-augmented human lifting his hand had his hand crushed by the amplified strength of the movements.

I was under the impression that the AI was housed in a 'knit-crystal memory' layer, separate from the liquid metal crystal layer.

@Adam-S017 SPI is the worst variant in my opinion. Way less protection for stealth, which the other suits already could make use of. @TheAttacker732 and @Professor Protein I'm pretty sure the details of MJOLNIR were covered in the book "Fall of Reach"

What do you mean withstand it's own weight? It's in space it's not goin to fall XD

+Bugsy Del Rosario hope that was bait

Alright geez, I'm sorry.

im pretty sure there are some very interesting articles about this topic.

To create such a weapon the Halo rings should be able to concentrate a terrifying amount of matter in a precise point. Unless you try to bring stars together (which won't really result in "controlled" explosion) the only way is to retrieve the Hydrogen dispersed a bit everywhere in space, putting numbers aside this could be accomplished by placing the rings in a star system where matter is "common". But retrieving that much of matter, regardless of the process, would take ass loads of time. At the very best if such a thing is possible you'd probably end up with a black hole maker. And perhaps a huge space sniper.

GUMMRUCHK exactly!!!

Sure, they have much more advanced technology, but that would be the application of science. So while we couldn't even begin to understand how they're built, the underlying physical systems (electromagnetic radiation, gamma radiation's effects on living tissue, and how our atmosphere absorbs incoming radiation) are well-known.

WantEpicMusic Nothing we know can even be applied for all we know they use fields of science yet to be discovered or the fields of science we have are used but in a much more advanced way. We can't even scratch the surface of how Halo Rings work even speculating is a fools errand we might as well be cavemen trying to explain a meteor shower. We are talking about a species that has the ability to create not only the rings but fully functioning Dyson spheres devolve other species use organic minds to create artificial life has a galaxy spanning sort of internet built the ark which is even more massive than the rings I think it's laughable to even attempt to understand this stuff.

GUMMRUCHK exactly, why not just be amazed

GUMMRUCHK I think even if it seems absurd to attempt to understand how the halo rings work and whether it functions or not in reality, it is beneficial and refreshing to ideate and create stuff so while the ideas seem strange and may not be accepted, those ideas help bring the focus in more and narrow down where science can be applied well.

Daniel Cannata what?

oh lord 2:20

ikr

that'd be an awesome episode of Game Theory

But what is that song not the nut cracker the other one

Rcham wow hi Rcham

😂

rcham the trap base man

+ReeCocho no its my ego... theres just so much of it

+ReeCocho Hypernovea

+Benjamin Thein It's definitely more maths and physics based.

Makes

No. It males it more dramatic.

You know you can edit yro posts so you don't have to post a second time for a correction?

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+Gregthegamer 😂😂😂😂😂

Oh it surly fucking can! There is a ratio in the thickness of the lead and the density and amount of the radiation. Very little radiation against a decently thick plate won't penetrate much but on a 1-1 ratio it just sweeps through.

it is restiant every thing is resiant to every thing though. Enough wood would stop gamma rays though the amount may be very high. But sure it your small scale uses lead works. Though even if you did not die in the gama ray burst by being on the other side of the planet or under cover you still fucked beyond fucked. All the crops and cattle is open and exposed and dead, cancer rates will sky rocket and over all it would kill billions though I feel as a species we could survive. We have enough self contained isolated groups to keep a populations large enough to repopulate.

there is some way to block gamma radiation, but only in small doses, with that ass-load number of doses on the video ? nothing can block it

Raka Pratama a planet could

Andrew Coetzee nope, not even a planet, the energy output would absolutley shred EVERYTHING that was within close proximity. Like having a few trillion nukes go off in your face all at once(and thats an extremely low estimate)

+Dip Jr OOF

The gamma ray burst would end half of the earth's life in a snap. the energy would be balanced, as all things should be.

How'd it go?

+pwrserge83 Less powerful? Wouldn't it be more powerful if it was closer?

You forgot Forerunner Slipspace is insanely fast. Like, 2000 per day or something.

Stanley Could be less powerful and get the same effects. If it's 2000 ly/day that makes the math significantly more impressive. (basically multiply my numbers by another 29.2)

pwrserge83 Oh, I see. The numbers are overkill, so even if they're less powerful, it wouldn't matter.

+KILLimanjaro Unfriggenbelievable Spearhead is named Dave, he's my friend. This isnt the guy who does Halo Dubz haha

Zesterpiece k :(

He misspoke, and left off the word "thousand." Our galaxy is roughly 100,000 lightyears across.

Lennard Church Now it makes sense! I was confused about since when a galaxy can be so small. THANKS

That's just a theory, there's been loads of mass extinctions, life is incredibly resilient. Off the top of my head i think there's at least 4 known massive ones (%90+ of all life) and loads of "minor" ones. with the most recent being 65 million years ago. Again, all off the top of my head. but i'm fairly certain that the ozone does slowly rebuild itself over time. Especially over the millions of years between now, and when the theory says this happened.

yes. the ozone replenishes over time.

Erm, the video was literally about finding out the minimum power that the rings needed to output to be effective, what did you think he was doing?

That was the original premise, sort of. It starts off by saying each ring has a max distance of 25k light years. Then it sets out about finding out how powerful gamma radiation has to be at that distance out, then work your way back. But then he ends up using what the average supernova emits, and working back from there. What the average supernova emits isn't necessarily how powerful a burst would have to be to be devastating, it could be far far below that or even far above. Also, he then took what the effect would be from a burst only 2.2k light years away, when what we actually need to know is the distance from one 25k light years away.

He should be using scientific notation.

Its for dramatic effect. Anyway its illogical to use scientific notation in an oral presentation if you aren't applying it mathematically.

+Mitchell Franklin Fuck that, I got multiple F's, and grounded in 8th grade because of that shit.

ikr i used a big number website so i can see how many zeros there are in those numbers www.thealmightyguru.com/Pointless/BigNumbers.html i sware they made it just for watching his videos

Dont think Ill live that long so dw

+fatmarvin Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

Rtas `Vadum let's see,