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If we went to war with China we would not need to use a single ground troop, that is if we didnt want to. We could force the government to simply surrender by wiping out it military capacity and civil infulstructure using conventional bombs and missiles. If we wanted to change the government we might need send in troops, if they refused to sign a treaty that forced a new government.

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Any culture capable of faster than light travel will have very powerful computers as well as incredible robotics. They dont need slave labor. People require space to live and lots food. Thye also tend to be rebellious. Machines have none of these unwanted qualities.

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An energy sword's core is not metal. Its all plasma like a lightsaber. Also I doubt a Jedi could stand much of a chance against an smg or assault rifle because of how fast it fires and the size of the spray.

[quote who="Szadowsz" reply="21" id="2191745"]my elite RROD but that was only after it was left on for several days straight while i was away becuase my family didn't know how to turn it off properly [/quote] LOL? Pressing the giant button is to hard?

Yes the story is very deep when you get into the books and other sources. Still not as deep as Star Wars mind you. I dont like the way things are layed out as far as they have extended the time line. Luke the most powerful Jedi ever ends up being exiled into obscurity? I just dont like it.

When the flood reach a high enough biomass a Gravemind is created. It is the hive mind for the Flood. The Gravemind is faster at calculations than any of the forerunners AIs, that is untill they created the contender class AI. The contender claas AI is similar to the Gravemind, because they both have compound minds. Mendicant Bias was the first and the gravemind was able to turn it against the forerunners when he convinced mendicant that Intelligences like themselves are the future of evoluti

[quote who="Solam" reply="8" id="2185213"] The simple fact is that the earth and the solar system are nothing out of the ordinary in the milky way. we just have a planet in the habitable region of our system. [/quote] Two actually dont leave out Mars. We know it had water. [quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="15" id="2185295"] In 1953 the Miller Urey experiment was conducted..you know the one in which they tried to similate the Earth's pr

Actually a MAC round has effectively limitless range in a vacuum. The only limit is the ability to calculate the range, which is more than simple for a smart A.I. The forerunners used dreadnaughts that are 37654 tonnes. The Key ships, which they possessed entire fleets of are 14 kilometers high making them comparable to an SSD. The weapons are of unknown power but in all likely hood it could destroy an SSD very quickly as the covenant could only tap into 10% of its total power, which

[quote who="MatBerryman2" reply="2" id="2181289"]@ unk0wnx A BS, don't you mean Bsc? Anyway although I don't have a Bsc yet I am a second year undergraduate of Microbiology. I really don't understand how anybody who studied Biology cannot see how DNA is molecule of inheritance and of evoloution. Through use of G+C% and the DNA molecules "melting" point we can arccurately show relatedness. Through use of protein databases we can show how one p

unkn0wnX As i have already said they have proven evolution using DNA. And you cant discredit the fossile record which shows the gradual progression of species changing into other species.

[quote who="Leauki" reply="15" id="2178071"] So he didn't even say he would rebuild the Temple? That is one failed Messiah! Or maybe you don't know this. The Jewish view of the Messiah since the time of the Prophets has been that he would bring all the Jews back to Israel, bring about world peace, and rebuild the Temple. Actually all that will be one big project and work together. (He will apparently also be of the Davidic line of kings.) We are sti

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[quote who="Leauki" reply="13" id="2177984"] (Your Messiah was supposed to rebuild it again but unfortunately he was born and died before the Temple was actually destroyed and has yet to come back and rebuild it.) [/quote] He was refurring to his body not the actual temple. Thats why he said it would be rebuilt in 3 days.He rose from the dead after 3 days.

Sorry but your wrong... Evolution is a fact. It has been proven by DNA and by the fossil record. Evolution takes millions of years in most cases. But it is still visible and very apperent when you look at bacteria. Bacteria have been evolving, infact it has many people worried. Antibiotics kill most bacteria but the ones that survive pass on resistance to the next generation. Our attempts to destroy bacteria has shaped its evolution in a very direct way. This is natural selection because the

Halo 3 alone makes it worth getting. Sure you will have your afairs with other shooters[e digicons] Warning: Fable 2 is disappointing IMHO Also the Halo expansion will be out soon enough. Mass Effect 2 and Bio Shock 2 will be must haves. Gears Of War 2 is a great single player game but lacking in Multiplayer.

I think to be a fair fight we should compare forerunners to Star Wars races. That way we have comparable ship size and technological capabilities. The Forerunners could cause stars to collapse and it became a standard protocol for flood containment. They became world builders able to construct things on a massive scale such as the shield worlds and the ark. Their understanding of Genetics has no mach. They also had armor that ranked in at class 18 maybe higher ( Master Chief's armor is c

[quote who="Survivor454" reply="10" id="2173710"] Also, FTL travel in the normal sense is impossible. The only way it could happen was if we used wormholes, and so far, we have never observed one. According to Einsteins equations, they are possible, we just haven;t found one yet. Also, we would have to construct a craft capable of withstanding the emmense pressure they would be under.[/quote] Actually by narrowing the facbric of spacetime in front of a ship and widening spacetime

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="2" id="2172266"] Just because they reverse engineer it doesnt mean they dont know how it works But they don't actually reverse engineer anything. They just find old Forerunner tech and use it. They don't know how it works, or why it works, they just know that it works. All they do is copy existing stuff, with out learing how it works. [/quote] The Covenant DO reverse engineer Forerunner tech. They dont blindly copy. If they did t

[quote who="PraetorFenix" reply="17" id="2172045"] The idea that the universe is infinite is absurd. As I said before, it goes against the laws of thermodynamics, the most fundamental laws in science. [/quote] [quote]I agree, its unlikely, but it is still possible. Its called the eteranal expansion theory, proposed by Andrei Linde in 1986. It has to do with parts of the Universe breaking of in "blisters" which could concievably happen forever. The thing is we can only