done a whole lot of this in my time
every time there was a new halo i was there at the midnight launch when that was still a
thing sheldon think this through you're going to ask howard to choose between sex and halo
no i'm going to ask him to choose between sex and halo 3. it was kind of my real first exposure to
space aliens please enjoy my bright blue balls now i know what you're thinking kill me or release me
parasite but do not waste my time with talk so we're gonna watch some clips and react for ages
we search for one who might unlock the secrets of the rings an oracle thanks to squarespace for
sponsoring this video talk more about squarespace later in the video so i filmed this video about
a month ago and i'm just editing now and i've realized i haven't filmed enough stuff
i'm currently in my office at swinburne university so i don't have my suit on me super hyped for the
tv show which comes out like tomorrow so i'm hoping to get this video up overnight
um so i'm piecing this together right at the last minute and i wanted to go bigger than usual i
wanted to do some math we don't always do math but we do sometimes and so let's do some calculations
for things within halo and see how realistic some of the stuff within the game is relax so
one thing i always found interesting within the halo games are these things called light bridges
they're literally bridges made out of light so i figured we can do a calculation to see
if this is actually possible if you could create a bridge made out of pure light
let's calculate the calculations are in and here we've got some equations i've plugged
in the numbers i've shown you so if you guys want to follow along feel free we're
not going to talk through it because there's probably a lot of people that don't want to
hear that but down here i've calculated i've got three results so for a human
to walk across a bridge made of light you would need this much power this much watts of light
uh just for the human to walk across so that's a lot let me put it in this into perspective for you
so that's that would cost per minute about 660 000 us dollars for one minute so for the second
result the chief who's significantly bigger he's like seven foot tall 180 kilograms i found and
that's how much power it would take for him which works out to be about one million us dollars for
one minute just so the chief can walk along that bridge and then for the last one we calculated
the same thing for a scorpion for a tank in the game and that would cost you about 500 million
us dollars to operate it for one minute this is assuming all the light would be used to
support the object practically it would cost a lot more there's also one other slight problem
with our light bridge it would vaporize anything that tried to cross it so not very realistic
i was trying to decide what would be interesting to calculate in terms of this halo ring and not
too hard so i come up with this idea i could try and calculate how big like a crack would need to
be in sort of the foundation in the actual halo ring itself before the whole thing just sort of
critically failed and just went to put and are all completely broke important point i assumed the
halo rings are constructed out of a steel alloy okay so that's interesting because that means
the crack in the halo ring only needs to be 0.05 percent of the entire structure for it to reach
a critical failure and the thing will just tear itself apart i just flip that into my face but
that's not much at all so these things even the tiniest bit of damage on the outside or tension
this thing is just going to rip itself apart which explains why in the first halo a single nuclear
explosion was able to just destroy the ring so hello rings built out of steel and not very
practical but maybe there's some unknown material out there that we could use so they let me pick
choose whichever spartan i wanted watched as you became the soldier we
two kilometers easy stay sharp
his armor's locked up gel layer could have taken most of the impact
we're not leaving him here yeah you're not why do you always jump
one of these days you're going to land on something as stubborn as you are
wait the arbiter's with us okay so chief just fell from space and walked it off so let's calculate
how fast he must have been moving when he hit that surface it should be a pretty easy calculation
where it's so easy calculations are done and chief was moving at 69.6
meters per second when he hit the ground that's about 150 miles per hour
which isn't that quick so i think he could actually survive this given he's you know
super suit you know in moto gp riders come off sometimes uh at 300 kilometers per hour uh so
200 150 miles per hour is like 250 kilometers per hour so you know i think this is actually
possibly survivable but i mean you know it is a direct impact in motogp they just kind of slide
so i'm just going to give you know the super suit the benefit of the doubt and say survival
they're going to try to take our mack guns offline give their capital ships a straight shot at earth
i'm going to try and calculate how powerful these magnetic accelerator cannons are mac cannons
because they're quite similar to the real-life analog
gas rifles or gas cannons so this could be tough but i think we can do it so let's jump into it
calculations are done and the little handhold one that is equivalent each time you fire it to about
four hiroshima bombs so it's good substitute for a nuclear bomb so you know if you're playing the
game and shot that at a craft just over there i think everyone including yourself is going to be
instantly killed and then the bigger version of that gun is absolutely ridiculous and it
would be equivalent of a magnitude 10 earthquake on the richter scale
and that would involve the surface rupturing completely along the major fault line so
you're talking planetary destruction so not very tactical but definitely devastating
i wanted to talk about the gravity hammer because it doesn't make a lot
of sense it's called the gravity hammer but it sends people flying
you know if it's gravity it should probably have the opposite effect right uh so maybe a
better name for it would be the dark energy hammer because you know we don't really know what dark
energy is but it it seems to be like a kind of anti-gravity cortana what exactly am i looking at
that is another halo i thought halo was some sort of super weapon
it is if activated this ring will cause destruction on a galactic scale
the device would destroy the infection and its food supply halo
now is this realistic could supernovas
do this to a galaxy we think the kill zone of supernovas is about 25 to 50 light years so that's
like how close a supernova would need to be to wipe out all life on the earth yeah so that's kind
of concerning because you know there's a supernova in our galaxy at least once every 50 years
but it doesn't look like any of the local stars are going to go super nervous don't worry about
that uh so you would need about what 2 000 of these supernovas all at the same time to go off
and you could you know kind of wipe out all life in the galaxy and then there's hyper nova which
are pretty terrifying these things are much rarer so for a star to go supernova it has to have about
eight times the mass of our sun so our sun won't go supernova when it dies it won't be good but it
won't go supernova so this hypernova you need a star with about 30 times the mass of the sun
and these things really explode but these things might have a kill zone of like 10 to 25 000 light
years so you're talking about you'd only need a few of these hypernova possibly to you know
possibly wipe out most of the life in the galaxy one of the mass extinction events on earth the
ordovician mass extinction event wiped out a large amount of biodiversity on earth we think
was from an excess of gamma rays and so this is predicted to have come from possibly a hypernova
about 6 000 light years away so when these gamma rays arrived at earth you know which would have
taken if it was from a hype another six thousand light years away six thousand years we think it
only took about 30 seconds for those gamma rays to destroy 50 percent of the ozone layer and it would
have also ionized a lot of the nitrogen and oxygen which would have resulted in this smog stuff which
is really bad for life and we think about 85 percent of biodiversity on earth was wiped out
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sir permission to leave the station for what purpose master chief to give the covenant back yes
just one question what if you miss i won't
so this is one of those scenes where it's like just don't think about it too much all right
just enjoy the awesomeness given what we know about this brain it's even more important that
we capture the prophet of regret find out why he came to earth why he came here so i'm assuming
these halo rings are like parked in the lagrange points which are like parking spots they're kind
of they're the place where the forces of say like a two body system like uh the gravitational
forces cancel out and balance and so you can kind of just park stuff there and it's where
the james webb space telescope is it's at one of those like range points and then when you're
playing the game you're often running around on the halo rings themselves and there's gravity
you know you're stuck to the surface just as you are on earth and i think in the game uh the
gravity is generated from the ring spinning and i don't really see any problems there you could park
a big halo ring at a lagrange point you could also generate like artificial gravity by spinning
the thing that also works out so they've got this concept in halo called neural physics
uh which is pretty interesting and cool but it's all very sort of uh
very far out there it's more like the best way to describe it is probably space magic
there's this thing called living time and the universe itself is alive so we're not going to
talk about that stuff because it's just you know very out there and everything in current physics
completely says otherwise obviously i'm not saying some of the concepts in halo aren't possible
i'm just saying we don't know enough about the universe to even start talking about some of those
things there's nothing really meaningful i can add to that um you know i love speculating about this
stuff as well but i mean in terms of real physics i can't tell you guys anything so let's just move
on to stuff we can talk about so i don't play much halo anymore but of course i got halo infinite
smashed through the campaign i played a bit of the multiplayer got a bit addicted there
i think it's all amazing i really loved halo infinite obviously halo 5 everyone's on the same
page there was a bit of a let down the campaign let's be honest uh i enjoyed halo 4. my favorite
is probably halo 3. i've actually met a couple of my really good friends playing halo online
i met this us rapper from america a wingspan yeah we had some good times and then i also met another
one of my good friends playing halo 5 uh sapphire she's from new zealand so just across the ditch
and yeah we're still close friends so the friends you meet online are real friends it's always
awesome meeting people online you know after you talk a bit of [ __ ] about each other and then you
come close i think that's what happened with me and uh hey wingspan we were in the halo 3
lobby and we just talking absolute smack steve in the soundtrack i was like damn i gotta try
that and then i spent most of my teenage years trying to play the halo theme song on guitar
i feel like our generation and future generations are going to love retirement because i know
what i'm going to be doing all day every day playing a halo so yeah i'm looking forward to it
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