It's a cross between Halo and a different Halo; the Forerunner Penn and Teller linked them together and no one could pull them back apart.TopazFusion said:Meant to be a cross between Halo and something else?
But, who doesn't want to be chillin' in cryostasis?Caramel Frappe said:I really loved what they gave Rad to sleep in lol. But gotta say, will science ever get to a point they can freeze our bodies but keep us alive for days / months / years before we wake up again? Cause I ... I don't know. Anything can go wrong and we can end up dead somehow.
A Halo ring is in orbit around a star rather than fully encircling it. Also, Ringworld has an interior ring of structures called "shadow squares" between the larger habitat area and the star to give it a day-night cycle. The Halos are much closer to Iain M. Banks's Orbitals (linked above), which Bungie has openly stated.camazotz said:The double ring dealie probably is dumb, but yeah, the original Halo ring is actually ripped right from Larry Niven's Ringworld, which was widely regarded as one of the better hard SF expressions on weird future alien planet engineering, and back in the sixties and seventies people regularly worked out and admired the math and physics behind the concept of a ring world.
Also, Halo stole the flood concept from Rowley's Vang novels (they admitted it) and probably the Spartan concept from Starship Troopers. Which, of course, is why Halo remains so frickin awesome.
This, Bungie said it came from the Culture novels rather than Ringworld. A lot of the ship names were also inspired by them as well, Halo had stuff like "Truth and Reconciliation" and "Pillar of Autumn" with the culture novels having "Wisdom Like Silence".Asclepion said:A Halo ring is in orbit around a star rather than fully encircling it. Also, Ringworld has an interior ring of structures called "shadow squares" between the larger habitat area and the star to give it a day-night cycle. The Halos are much closer to Iain M. Bank's Orbitals (linked above), which Bungie has openly stated.camazotz said:The double ring dealie probably is dumb, but yeah, the original Halo ring is actually ripped right from Larry Niven's Ringworld, which was widely regarded as one of the better hard SF expressions on weird future alien planet engineering, and back in the sixties and seventies people regularly worked out and admired the math and physics behind the concept of a ring world.
Also, Halo stole the flood concept from Rowley's Vang novels (they admitted it) and probably the Spartan concept from Starship Troopers. Which, of course, is why Halo remains so frickin awesome.
Plus, one of Bank's novels is about a fanatically religious hierarchical empire of alien races fighting a war of conquest around massive ring-shaped space habitats, so the inspiration is quite obvious.
You mean like, which animal, or the character itself? Animal is Red Panda, and the character is just based on the various "cool" animal mascots with "attidute" that were popular back in the '90s. Sonic, Bubsy, Gex, Crash Bandicoot, Diddy Kong, Spyro, etcBob_McMillan said:What exactly is Rad based on?
I meant the latter. Thanks, I thought he was a real character until I realized that Erin Dies Alone was going the adaption route. Makes you wonder why they didn't just create a new character when Erin was already involved with real video game characters.SirCannonFodder said:You mean like, which animal, or the character itself? Animal is Red Panda, and the character is just based on the various "cool" animal mascots with "attidute" that were popular back in the '90s. Sonic, Bubsy, Gex, Crash Bandicoot, Diddy Kong, Spyro, etcBob_McMillan said:What exactly is Rad based on?
It's been a while since I checked, but it's my understanding that the main problem with freezing people is that water expands when frozen, which causes a lot of problems when it comes time to defrost the person.Caramel Frappe said:I really loved what they gave Rad to sleep in lol. But gotta say, will science ever get to a point they can freeze our bodies but keep us alive for days / months / years before we wake up again? Cause I ... I don't know. Anything can go wrong and we can end up dead somehow.