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Edited by OneTrueMandalor:
10/5/2018 12:10:29 AM
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1 AU
This is pretty late (also I don’t know exactly if this would count as lore but whatever), but I wanted to see how many people actually know the meaning behind the name of the Almighty mission.
So I’ve been in an astronomy class at college since the end of August, and early on, we talked about some units of distance in space, and what stuck out to me was 1 AU- aka 1 Astronomical Unit- aka the distance between the Earth and the Sun. The Almighty is next to the Sun, so...yeah, pretty interesting to learn about. Nice attention to detail on Bungie’s part.
Edit: I don’t know why there suddenly a bunch of unrelated posts suddenly popping up. All I was doing was pointing out some interesting little detail I discovered...
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7 Replies1 AU = Australia 🇦🇺 rules
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Everyone trying to be overly clever by going “well if it was 1AU you’d be in the sun” or “shouldn’t it be less than 1AU as we don’t actually go to the sun”..... well done you’re officially a -blam!- that reads too much INTO A MISSION NAME on a game where you can throw flaming hammers at aliens.....
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33 RepliesIn my opinion, astronomy should be a mandatory subject for children from the age of 5 upwards. Far more important than other subjects we are forced to learn at that stage, in the UK anyways [spoiler]looking at you religious education[/spoiler]
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Now this I didn’t know. [spoiler]might have to bring back culturepost and do an astronomy based one hmmmm...🤔[/spoiler]
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2 RepliesToo bad It doesn't make up for the horrible name "Almighty".
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Quick he stated something smart, bump him!
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2 RepliesEdited by SolarCerberuS: 10/5/2018 12:29:29 AM***EDIT Unrelated post *** removed computer/or site had a major brain fart
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3 RepliesSoo, it is wrongly named? if 1 AU is earth-sun distance thwn it should be someting like 0.01 AU? Not exactly attention to details :-D #NERF the distance Bungie!!!
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1 ReplyI'm glad that middle school astronomy is sticking out to you now that you're in college
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Knew of the term since I was like 7, and my reaction was the opposite - that B was trying to sound all "sciency" and shit without actual science - because by definition, traveling coreward 1 AU makes you part of the corona and shit. :P
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1 Reply[b]Aeviternal XXII Exotic Ship[/b] -A remarkably preserved Golden Age pattern recovered from the excavation in Hellas Basin. --- "The designs are sound. Slipstream out past Jupiter and things get much smoother. It's easy sailing all the way to the Belt. Just mind your tailwind as you go over the cliff." ... "That's right, we're on an approach vector to city 7. Tala, you wanna tell Kofi we're bringing in a batch of extra-system tholins fresh from Makemake?" ... "No sweetie, daddy won't make your birthday. Well… I'm very far away right now. That's right. And what is it called? No sweetie, not porpoise. Orcus." ... "Hey we've got… we've got signals coming back at us from the black. Is anyone getting this? We're transmitting from 12 degrees north of the ecliptic and at about 50 AU out. This isn't background radiation out here!" ... "…just going to keep sailing. If I rig the pod just so, I should make it to Ross 128 b before the systems die. I can rally some ships and try to make it back. If you can hear this, stay strong. You are not alone! I will be…" --- —Fragmented data file from a collapsed comms tower near Alton Dynamo
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6 RepliesI just wish we got to go to the Almighty some more.
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My friend thought it was 1 Gold and I had to hit him with the science.
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1 Edge 4U? That would make a Lot! of sense you know?...
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4 RepliesIt’s cool but the almighty is closer to the Sun than the Earth is so it should be “<1 AU”, right?
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1 astronomical unit
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I knew that
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5 Replies<Knew this for a while but it's actually pretty amazing how good the little details are.>
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Edited by Bandit681: 10/3/2018 9:20:45 PMnoun: astronomical unit; plural noun: astronomical units; noun: AU; noun: a.u. a unit of measurement equal to 149.6 million kilometers, the mean distance from the center of the earth to the center of the sun. ~93 million miles Also, Au is gold (lower case u makes a world of difference)
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Nice!
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YOU. Your post. And others like you are what still gives me faith in the community. Thank you
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4 Replies1 Astronomical Unit. It's the distance of the sun from the earth. 1AU. Given that the mission is about the sun, it makes sense
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noticed the use of Astronomical units when i was doing some research on deimos, instantly thought of the mission. its all in the details
