| Devala Rees 2004-11-19, 9:47 am |
| On 11/19/04 12:10 AM, in article
82de20b3.0411182210.5ee66969@posting.google.com, "Keith"
<kjordan1@gmail.com> wrote:
quote:
> Devala Rees <darkeagle@lisco.com> wrote in message
> news:<BDC23A99.187B%darkeagle@lisco.com>...
>
> I don't think it's a matter of others noticing or not noticing, so
> much as a matter of your interpretations being different from those of
> others.
>
> The ark wasn't just a way for a few humans to survive the flood. It
> was a way for all species to survive it - two of each, so they could
> reproduce.
>
Well, yeah, but unless the Forerunners wanted to save all the weird alien
wildlife on whatever planet they lived on, and could fit it on that ship...
I was just thinking that there were probably two Forerunners, or however
many it takes for them to reproduce (that's kind of a weird thought...).
quote:
> SPOILERS FOLLOW.
>
> The Forerunner ship appears to be rather small, doesn't it?
>
That's why I think there are probably only two.
quote:
> I think it's very likely (though not absolutely certain) that "the
> Ark" is Earth. Contrary to popular belief, when they cut from the
> scene where the Arbiter asks where the Ark can be found, they do not
> go immediately to a scene of the master chief in the Forerunner ship.
> They go to a scene where the Forerunner ship breaks into normal space
> in Earth's solar system, which then pans to show the Earth, close-up
> enough to see clouds and continents. It then shows Cairo station's
> control room, and then it shows the inside of the Forerunner ship.
>
> Based on how it's done, PLUS the Covenant's accidental pre-invasion
> with 15 ships, PLUS the apparent tiny size of the Forerunner ship,
> PLUS the fact that 343 Guilty Spark refers to humans but not Covenant
> as "reclaimers", I think that the Earth is the Ark. I further think
> that humanity is a direct descendent of the Forerunners. I think that
> at some point, we will see very tangible ties between the Forerunners
> and - for example - pyramid and Mayan ruin construction.
>
While that could be, wouldn't we be noticing a bit more advanced technology
than big broken buildings made of rocks? I mean, everyone's saying how
high-tech the Egyptians must have been to build pyramids like that, but
somehow, building an enormous triangle out of bricks to stuff dead people
and money in seems kinda low-tech to me 
quote:
> I suspect that the Earth was somehow shielded (and may remain
> shielded) from the effect of the Halos.
If that's true, then the Monitor was lying to his own disadvantage in the
first game, which would really make no sense.
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