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According to established Halo lore, Installation 04 aka Alpha Halo, had a diameter of approximately 10k km (6,213 miles). That’s roughly 80% the diameter of Earth, which sits at about 12,742 km.
Let that sink in for a moment.
The ring that Master Chief crash-landed on in Halo Combat Evolved wasn’t some small artificial structure floating in space. It was a colossal Forerunner megastructure containing entire oceans, mountain ranges, forests, deserts, rivers, weather systems, and countless facilities hidden beneath its surface.
The inner habitable surface of the ring stretched for tens of thousands of square kilometers, creating the illusion of an endless world curving upward into the sky. When Chief first stepped onto Alpha Halo in 2001, most players had no idea they were standing on one of the most ambitious pieces of science fiction worldbuilding ever created in gaming.
What’s even more incredible is that Installation 04 was only one ring in a network of seven Halo installations. Each one was designed as a galaxy-spanning superweapon capable of wiping out all sentient life within a radius of 25,000 light-years in order to starve the Flood.
Twenty-five years later, it’s still hard to comprehend just how massive Alpha Halo truly is. 🫡
Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here:
Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track.
Spread the word. Stand up for science.
Theo Von: “Nobody wants a data center dude. And the people that want them to me, they seem kind of evil. Nobody wants this shit. One of these companies is gonna own all of this information. There’s gonna become this social or emotional credit score and then AI is gonna try to become our new God”
It turns out you cannot artificially manufacture cultural relevance forever.
The far-right pipeline of industry plants is hitting a wall, proving that no amount of financial backing, algorithmic manipulation, or bot-farm views can save talentless, dishonest, and fake political content creators.
The strategy was lifted straight from Russia and the European far right. The anti-democracy libertarian tech bros who supported MAGA realized that winning elections required full narrative control. They did not just buy up traditional media and hijack the algorithms, they also created and boosted the people making the content.
This whole ecosystem is completely fake. They built a network of paid influencers, using a mix of established names and pure industry plants who were engineered for fame. Characters like Lex Fridman and Nick Shirley were aggressively pushed to the top by powerful people like Elon Musk.
Even people within their own circles are blowing the whistle. Ashley St. Clair recently exposed the reality of these right-wing influencer networks, revealing how creators are given explicit marching orders and told exactly what to post behind the scenes.
The desperation peaked with the Tenet Media scandal, where right-wing darlings like Tim Pool and Benny Johnson were exposed for taking dirty blood money from Russia to parrot pro-Putin and anti-Ukraine talking points to American voters. They are literal traitors.
But the grift has an expiration date. These far-right plants got massive before and after Trump's election, but they are having an incredibly hard time maintaining the illusion today.
Go look at their actual cultural impact. They have become totally irrelevant, and nobody talks about them anymore. They are entirely dependent on bot farms to make them look popular, but real people have completely moved on
Morty: Capitalism gives everyone a chance to get rich if they just work hard enough.
Rick: Oh my god, Morty! Capitalism doesn't work if everyone wins. It needs poverty to function. Someone has to take the low-paying jobs so the profits keep flowing upward. If everyone had real financial security, no one would take those positions and the system would collapse.
Morty: But Rick, that's just how the market works. Some people earn more because they provide more value.
Rick: Tell that to the kid assembling your iPhone overseas for pennies while some CEO makes millions off it. Capitalism doesn't reward work, it rewards ownership. You don't climb the ladder by working hard, you climb it by owning the ladder. The workers collectively produce infinitely more value than some shareholder living in the Bahamas.
Morty: Okay, but isn't it about freedom People can still move up if they make good choices. Look at people who came from nothing and became successful, like entrepreneurs or celebrities.
Rick: Those are exceptions, idiot. That's why they're on TV. For every one person who makes it out, millions stay stuck because they never had the same luck, connections, or safety nets. The system needs those stories so people believe it's fair.