[judykott]

Everyday I usually have the word of the day and number of the day. Halo and 22 have been the ones for a week. One of the things that started it was the Halo song.I had not really ever noticed how pervasive it is out there right now. When something is everywhere it is because they wish us to except it. Halo is one of them and here is why I think they are selling it.

First there was the demonstration of some Halos from refraction of light through ice crystals to form the Halos and Sundogs.The mechanics of this is important for later.



22º halo ray path through a poorly aligned hexagonal prism crystal. Rays pass through faces inclined at 60° to each other. The poor orientations form the circular halo.More on the implications of this later

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Now for other Halos

The game to play on your Xbox 360 Halo=8+1+12+15=36=360


(I left this rather wordy just so you could get the full gist of it)
In a desperate attempt to keep a conquering alien race called the Covenant from finding Earth, you--a cybernetically enhanced soldier representing the peak of human military evolution--and a ragtag group of Marines flee to a distant uncharted system where you unexpectedly stumble across Halo, an enormous alien artifact in orbit between a gas giant and its moon. Your objective: Uncover Halo's horrible secret, and destroy mankind's nemesis - the Covenant. [Microsoft]

Halo 3 is the third game in the Halo Trilogy and provides the thrilling conclusion to the events begun in "Halo: Combat Evolved." Halo 3 will pick up where "Halo 2" left off. The Master Chief is returning to Earth to finish the fight. The Covenant occupation of Earth has uncovered a massive and ancient object beneath the African sands - an object who's secrets have yet to be revealed. Earth's forces are battered and beaten. The Master Chief's AI companion Cortana is still trapped in the clutches of the Gravemind - a horrifying Flood intelligence, and a civil war is raging in the heart of the Covenant. This is how the world ends... It has 222 cheats that they give you

they even have their own Halopedia

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Halopedia which is an immense site

Scientology is running an ad on the site but it won't let me upload the images.It is on the left hand side, Halos abound on the book they are selling as well.


http://www.scientology.org/?source=g...FRFWagod_B7Bpg


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The Movie

Many rumors about the movie, it has no official release date.

advertisement lot Summary: As the bloody Human-Covenant War rages on Halo, the fate of humankind may rest with one warrior, the lone SPARTAN survivor of another legendary battle... the desperate, take-no-prisoners struggle that led humanity to Halo--the fall of the planet Reach. Now, brought to life for the first time, here is the full story of that glorious, doomed conflict.

While the brutal Covenant juggernaut sweeps inexorably through space, intent on wiping out humankind, only one stronghold remains--the planet Reach. Practically on Earth's doorstep, it is the last military fortress to defy the onslaught. But the personnel here have another, higher priority: to prevent the Covenant from discovering the location of Earth.

Outnumbered and outgunned, the soldiers seem to have little chance against the Covenant, but Reach holds a closely guarded secret. It is the training ground for the very first "super soldiers." Code-named SPARTANs, these highly advanced warriors, specially bioengineered and technologically augmented, are the best in the universe--quiet, professional, and deadly.

Now, as the ferocious Covenant attack begins, a handful of SPARTANs stand ready to wage ultimate war. They will kill, they will be destroyed, but they will never surrender. And at least one of them--the SPARTAN known as Master Chief--will live to fight another day on a mysterious and ancient, artificial world called Halo...


After they crash-land on an artificial ring-world called "Halo", a navy captain, his surviving marines, and a chemically-and-surgically-enhanced super soldier named John-117 "Master Chief" must find out what the Covenant, the genocidal alien race they are at war with, are looking for on the ring. However, Halo holds more secrets than either side imagin

After escaping from the Battle of Reach, Captain Jacob Keyes and his crew, aboard the Halcyon-class battlecruiser The Pillar of Autumn(time before death and resurrection), have discovered an ancient ring in an uncharted area of the universe. Soon after their discovery, they are attacked by several Covenant ships that had followed them from Reach. Their only option is to abandon ship, but not without a fight. Keyes orders their secret weapon to be awakened from cryo- sleep(they want to keep you on ice, Master Chief John:Spartan-117. He is the last of the super human soldiers created on Reach known as Spartans. After a noble fight, the Master Chief abandons the ship as well, taking Cortana with him, the A.I. heart of the Pillar of Autumn. He will soon be on a quest that will unveil many secrets about the ring, some of which should lay buried forever...

So we have keys, covenants, Master Chief, Spartan 117, Pillars, cryro sleep the ice sleep they would like to keep you in suspended animation. It is selling to young kids the idea of getting upgraded( chips) just like in the games. Many kids I hear talk about such things how cool it would be to be wired bioengineered and technologically augmented, to be all they can be sell from a young age on the idea. They have successfully implanted that idea that is what advertising is.

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Other Halo's

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HALO. NEW ALBUM COMING 2008. MEANWHILE: FEAR AND HATE AND LIES. PEACE. CONTACT HALO: HERE.

http://halo.antisound.net/
they are currently offline but check out the page
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About Project Halo
Aristotle, the ancient Greek teacher, scientist and philosopher, had an extraordinary command of all the scientific disciplines of his day, as well as an ability to teach that knowledge to his students in a way they could understand. Today, the sheer volume of knowledge existing in the world precludes a modern-day human Aristotle, but current knowledge systems and technologies may one day fulfill this role.
Project Halo is an effort by Vulcan Inc. towards the development of a “Digital Aristotle”—a staged, long-term research and development initiative that aims to develop an application capable of answering novel questions and solving advanced problems in a broad range of scientific disciplines. The Digital Aristotle is being developed with a focus on two primary functions: as a tutor capable of instructing and assessing students in the sciences, and as a research assistant with broad, interdisciplinary skills to help scientists in their work.
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Halo Bicycle Wheels

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Halo Lights


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Give your spawn a Halo


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Halo Trust

With Diana



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DARK HALO


Artwork showing the approximate extent of the dark matter halo around a large spiral galaxy such as our own. Credit: Jose Wudka


The massive outer region of the Milky Way Galaxy that surrounds the disk and stellar halo. The dark halo consists mostly of dark matter, whose form is unknown. Though it emits almost no light, the dark halo outweighs the rest of the Galaxy by a factor of approximately 20 to 1. Similar halos of nonluminous matter appear to surround and envelope other large galaxies. See also galactic halo.




galactic halo

dark matter halo
A large, relatively dust-free, spherical region surrounding a spiral galaxy, such as our own. The inner, visible part of the halo, which has roughly the same diameter as the galactic disk, is occupied by Population II objects, including globular clusters and old, individual stars. Beyond this is a much larger region, called the dark halo or extended halo, containing large amounts of dark matter, the presence of which is revealed by its gravitational effect on the galaxy's rotation. The nature of galactic dark matter is still undetermined but the most popular theory, supported by some recent observations, is that the dark halo is home to vast numbers of small, unseen bodies known as MACHOs.

MACHO (Massive Astronomical Compact Halo Object)

A hypothetical compact object, large numbers of which might account for a significant fraction of the dark matter in the galactic halos of large galaxies, including that of our own. If MACHOs exist they could take the form of black holes, neutron stars, red dwarfs, brown dwarfs, large rogue planets, or some other type of non-luminous body. A signature of these objects would be the occasional amplification of light from more distant sources by microlensing. No conclusions have yet been drawn about the existence or nature of MACHOs; however, various microlensing events detected by search efforts such as OGLE and the MACHO Project support the idea that invisible compact objects do exist in the Galaxy’s halo.


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Coronal Mass Ejections and "Halo Events"
back to spaceweather.com



Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are gigantic bubbles of electrified gas that billow away from the Sun. They can carry as much as 10 billion tons of solar material and trigger spectacular geomagnetic storms if they hit Earth's magnetosphere. CMEs, which usually travel at speeds between 500 and 1500 km/s, take 2 or 3 days to cross the 150 million km divide separating the Sun and Earth.
CMEs aimed at Earth are called "halo events" because of the way they look in coronagraph images. As the expanding cloud of an Earth-directed CME looms larger and larger it appears to envelop the Sun, forming a halo around our star. This animation shows a "full halo" coronal mass ejection recorded by SOHO coronagraphs on July 14, 2000. The many speckles in the latter half of the movie are energetic particles from a related solar flare bombarding SOHO's electronic detectors.
More information about coronal mass ejections -- from the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Solar Physics Group
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So what are they trying to sell you,

to be continued