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Wild speculation on Slide_Ref070107

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:50 am
by TheJoseph
First and foremost, the file name "Slide_Ref070107" might be a date - 07/01/07 is the 1st of July, this year, or if the 5 and 1 are backwards as has been posited earlier, 07/05/07 would put it at the 5th. Not unreasonable to consider. But everything from this point on is a wild guess, and I'd like to hear from people who know something about astronomy to confirm and/or debunk parts of this idea.

This is a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram from Wikipedia's article on stars. It's used to classify stars by brightness, heat, color, etc. I turned it on its side and put it next to the diagram that's supposedly a magnified flood infection subject.

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- Note the vague similarity in shape. It gets better.
- The bottom right of the infection image has an HR in the bottom right. For Hertzsprung-Russell?
- The right side has five major divisions on both image - in the star image, it relates to color.
- The bottom divisions on both images could be related to luminosity.
- Note the letters CNO in the bottom left corner of the infection image. From Wikipedia: "The CNO cycle (for carbon-nitrogen-oxygen), or sometimes Bethe-Weizsäcker-cycle, is one of two fusion reactions by which stars convert hydrogen to helium, the other being the proton-proton chain."
- The B3 in the top right of the flood diagram is the same nomenclature used to categorize stars.
- The fact that this was released alongside an image of stars suggests a vague correlation.

If that wasn't enough wild guessing for you, here's another take on the HR diagram - rotated AND flipped:
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If you want, you can pick some things out of that that correlate too, possibly better. Again, all this is WILD speculation, and there's evidence to the contrary, but every once in a while a shot in the dark hits home. Go wild.

Re: Wild speculation on Slide_Ref070107

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:12 am
by UnrealCh13f
Dang, that thing is crazy, your right about how this is a heck of a crazy speculation, but it might just help us out!!!

Re: Wild speculation on Slide_Ref070107

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:26 am
by Avateur
I was actually looking at my chart of the same thing from Astronomy class last night. I was using it in an attempt to try and figure out where stuff might be located in the other pic given all the red stars. Never thought to apply it to this stuff. Excellent work! :)

Re: Wild speculation on Slide_Ref070107

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:02 pm
by redct
Funny that they would use a picture of streptococcus for it though :|

Re: Wild speculation on Slide_Ref070107

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:51 pm
by Air Sparrow Hawk
If you ask me the Slide_Ref070107 looks a lot like a heat-scan of the halo just before it fires.

This would also make a lot of sense if it was as the Forerunners Programmed the Halo to record the firing sequence. Plus all of the things given to us from the server are records of the Halo firing sequence.

Re: Wild speculation on Slide_Ref070107

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:34 pm
by TheJoseph
Well, it's been shown that the template for this image is that of an ultrasound. A standard ultrasound has all the same data around the center image, and side-by-side the only difference is that the standard ultrasound shows a baby, this one shows some kind of microscopic Flood infection. Maybe it's a special ultra-high-res, microscopic-scale ultrasound, something we can't do yet. So that kind of blows my HR Diagram theory out of the water.

Re: Wild speculation on Slide_Ref070107

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:58 pm
by Air Sparrow Hawk
Ultrasound? Sounds plausible but it's rather unusual to use ultrasound to study such a tiny lifeform. In my opinion it'd be better to use some sort of microscopic heat scan to see the Flood. I wonder what the forerunner's were thinking? In any case it does look a lot like an Ultrasound scan but it doesn't seem like it fits to me, it just seems like it's the wrong type of way to view this sort of lifeform.