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Hey man, you should attempt to create these alloys with some metal workers and see about contacting some labs for some harder to obtain materials. I'm sure those nerdy dudes would love to make a halo alloy.
On large enough time scales, not only is the Halo Universe plausible, it is inevitable. We cannot know for sure if the franchise is literally prophetic.
It's amazing if you think about the odds the UNSC faced. The fact that they came out on top is impressive, even with some of the Chiefs luck, they still barley came out on top
That is true that did help out, but 117 being lucky and surviving everything thrown at him, and being at the right place right time help tremendously. Who knows if the elite would have come to the aid of humanity if the Arbiter hadn't become friendly with Chief, Johnson and others
This goes back to Noble Team. If they hadn’t gotten Cortana to the Pillar Of Autumn then they wouldn’t have found Halo. Thel wouldn’t have lost the ring and would still be the leader of the Fleet Of Particular Justice. The Covenant would have come to Earth and the UNSC would be screwed. Truth and Mercy would find the portal to the Ark and would have activated the array.
That's something I never really realized when playing the original and post war games. Humanity was being beaten hard. After I realized that, it became even easier to see why Chief became such a beacon of hope for humanity
Given the data pulled from Halo's science department and our advancements in material science, what timelines can we talk about before Titanium-A and Covenant materials can be replicated on a mass scale, or even have improvements?
We will, eventually. Humans have immense potential, if we don't destroy ourselves on this planet first. (Pursue renewables and alternative building materials!)
I don't know about most other people, but for me personally, I am able to understand your breakdowns quite well. As for this specific video, it is amazing how plausible these material capabilities are, and I hope it won't be too long before we can do it ourselves IRL.
I'm in complete awe. Makes me wish I studied harder in college. I don't think I have that eloquent or detailed knowledge of my field even after a decade of work.
As an absolute novice in this field, it made total sense to me. Thank you. I love this stuff, and it's very helpful to my worldbuilding as a writer. Your next challange is tackling the Forerunners! Good luck! XD
My dude here is busy inventing 26th century metallurgy for free on TH-cam. I feel like a cobalt-superalloy/single-crystal-diamond composite would be so strong even a nuclear explosion wouldn't damage it. Though maybe it _would_ buckle over such long distances as the material exists in Covenant supercruisers.
Nanometalic foam would reduce the weight and explain the macro strength of the skeletal structure, while also explaining the specific fatigue that we see in the shops captured by the flood proto-graveminds. High density element alloys interspaced with elemental crystals with sp3d2 interlinking with multiple points of the alloy foam. Just a thought
We will probably start doing things like this at scale sooner rather than later. Like He Said We already use this for turbine blades. But since due to the Sticky Finger Dilemma we probably won't have Grey Goo style programmable nano machines. The Most efficient way would be to have the material grow in smaller pieces. And then like atomically precise Lego Bricks place them at its exact location in the final structure and "Weld" them creating a perfect continuous crystalline structure.
@@isaackinsley1662 To be fair, I'm not.. Really knowledgeable about anything space fairing.. Hell, I barely know how to keep my own bike in decent repair, other than oil for the chain. To learn that is.. Surprisingly awesome though.
@@nil981 partly, yes. Covenant/Banished technology is mostly past Humanity's prime in the 26th century. Although at times, the UNSC stood their ground in various conflicts with the enemy factions.
This is making me wonder what the UNSC, or more likely its AIs, could create had they ever captured a functional, ship scale assembly forge. There's oh so much potential in that sort of hybridization.
Absolutely gold btw. This is very accessible. I would love to see some animation made by you of what you might speculate to be the process of these crazy manufacturing standards might be.
They have artificial gravity, even gravity lifts. I'd assume they have ways to control the inertia or weight of different sections of the ship, instead of the weight compounding on some foundation or skeleton like in a modern building. Materials might only need a fraction of the strength, depending on how flexible those gravity generators are.
I went to school to be a lowly civil engineer and I dropped out and even I was able to understand what you're talking about so you did a good job making it approachable.
You are the best channel for Halo because of this work you do. This is the stuff I like to learn about being somewhat of a passion for metallurgy because of my passion for knives and firearms. Plus once being in the U.S. Air Force as a pavements & heavy equipment, we dealt with all sorts of projects that dealt with building.
Excellent video as usual. I enjoy this series very much. I feel your explanations to be quite understandable and the visuals you use, particularly in this one where very helpful. Keep up the fantastic work my friend!
I think that the most beautiful part of this entire explanation is the idea that everything that you said could potentially be brought to life in our reality given n time.
1:38 the bigger the ship, the bigger the power requirement. The bigger the power requirement, the bigger the reactor core. The bigger the reactor core, the bigger the boom when it gets destroyed. The bigger the boom when it gets destroyed, the more material vaporizes and is lost forever!
I'd love to see not only you going in depth about the specific topic, but maybe compare it to the other respective factions in terms of performance and cababilities! That would be awesome
Deserves way more views. I have little understanding of STEM but you made it so interesting. That with your enthusiasm made that really enjoyable to watch
As an Engineer myself, I really enjoyed this! I have a different area of specialism but everything you postulated seemed logical. Good to see that I'm not the only person who wonders about things like this 😂😂
I very much so appreciate every time i watch these videos! But one thing i appreciated here specifically is you brought in your own areas of expertise to formulate an idea, it shows dedication and a bit of creativity! Thank you for the great content Instillation00
Cheers brother. Been watching your videos for just about a month now. You are not only the best channel for Halo Lore, but one of the best channels in every iteration and vector of science. Big fan and I look forward to supporting your channel as soon as possible. Keep up the great work and I hope this message finds you well.
Such a good day to hear other nerds nerding and merging theories. Yes this I makes perfect sense. Many times a character in the book will make reference that the ships look organic. All you think of is how do you grow metal?? And then bam! Science can grow diamonds. We just need a gun or wand to levitate tons of material and a teleport device or a storage unit we can carry at all times. No need for flying vehicles and unnecessary wait times for anything
They wouldn’t use nano machines I don’t think they’d use the Hugock since they are forerunner created constructs that have tentacles that go down to the nanoscale
Amazing video. You do an excellent job at approaching topics in an easy-to-understand way despite me not knowing anything about chemistry or physics. If only my teachers could explain science to me the way you can; you get me inspired to learn more about science.
Neat. Atomic scale reinforcement of an intermetallic is similar to white paper I read a whole back about interweaving of graphene sheets within each other such that the individual hexane rings are looped together.
As a mechanical engineer who has been a product engineer for Single Crystal , DS and Equiax turbine blades I like the idea of some sort of SC component. From a material stand point I agree with the use of something like niobium probably an alloy with more platinum group metals, tantalum and tungsten. Tantalum and tungsten have very high melting points but are brittle so they aren't good in high concentrations in rotating components. But maybe higher percentages when centripetal force isn't a great concern. Also they are heavy but if they don't have to worry about propulsion via chemical means the weight might not be as big of a deal as it is today. Platinum group metals generally have very high melting points, but are currently not used in turbine blades much do to high cost of raw materials. Platinum is used to make turbine blades in very small quantities to balance the internal ceramic core during the casting process. From a Mechanical design aspect I think the artist of the picture you show got it wrong for the super structure. I think the structure would look more like what you see in an AI generated design, where it looks more like the roots of a mangrove tree (not sure how else to describe it). idk if a superstructure would exist, more like a combination of an exo and endo skeleton where forces are distributed across the entire body. Its more mechanically efficient from a design stand point, we just don't do it today much because its hard to manufacture, 3D printing is starting to change that where we can make these designs. Overall the video was super cool. I enjoyed it.
Now I picture High Charity as a huge mining / ship building facility that goes around extracting all those minerals and building ships out of it. It's "civilian" population all being involved in this enterprise in some capacity.
I waited till the end. Your explanation of material used and crystalline formation, is spot on. If you were to take the density of the material, which density has a direct correlation to Mass. The covenants City size dreadnought would weigh almost in the billions of tons. But if you make the crystalline matrix to have pockets, air, argon something, even vacuum. The mass/weight will drop to 35 to 50%. Take beryllium carbide for example. It's force deflection is almost 300% more than your average steel. Cobalt is a good source they don't have to paint their ships metals or ceramic metals it will naturally be blue. Cobalt is blue, some kind of red to make it look that purple. i was thinking it was some kind of tungsten. Cobalt and tungsten don't mix very well on a subatomic level. the theory, actually it's not a theory, absorbing energy from weapons. you can recharge batteries. That's why the MAC guns were so successful because they were a projectile, not energy. Their shields will over load with sustained shots from energy weapons. But the kinetic energy AKA actual mass will pierce their Shields. To stop mass penetrating you would need a particle shield.
That was a great examination. This may just because I'm also science minded and excelled at understanding physics and the basics of engineering but it was very easy to follow along with
Star Trek used structural integrity force fields to maintain the ships shape as it was designed. The Covenant also had protective force fields just like Star Trek so they may have had structural integrity force fields as well.
amazing detail, even if at times i had a hard time following :) what would make it better is adding some sort of theoretical comparison of how this material would fare against its UNSC counterparts in typical use cases (like how much firepower would it take to punch a hole through it, etc).
I followed about 65% of what you said. If I understood your technical speech, I believe what you were saying is that using nanomachines, The covenant weaves its armor in all three dimensions using complementary materials first and, in its third dimension weaves a diamond-like reinforcing thread through each atom, kinda like crocheting metal to maximize material cohesion and minimizing material inclusions and imperfections from every atomic angle. Sound about right?
I'm not big on Halo lore, I mean my favorite game of the entire series was the original, yet the way you break down stuff about the Covenant and other things from the "Haloverse", I think you might have a new subscriber... I've watched about a dozen of your videos so far, and yes I can say without a doubt you've earned a subscribe from me... Keep pumping out the great content please...
We might not even need nano bots. We can already achieve semicrystalline features using FDM printing in plastics. Its probably only a matter of time before a recipe is discovered for metals too and instead of wasting time and energy on a full mono crystal structure we can just orientate things to take advantage of the grain direction. Woodworking is fun.
That was...........wow. Incredible. When i saw the video's title I immediately thought Nanaolanimate which you covered only to be surprised your going in depth with your video. I loved it. Great to see this content.
I mostly understand your hypothesis about it's structural design. It could be replicated in a newer concept of "Nanite clean room" facility with the materials being either 3D printed for a initial pre designed structure (example early bow designs of animals/plant fiber epoxy over wooden frame, but upscaled ; another visual concept example is the Marker production lab in the game Dead space 2). The only problems would be Nanite & computer programming,cost,and materials that are not structural processable now to create the desired alloys blends.
Are Cobalt/alloys not too large to have a diamond structure within them. My understanding is that those diamond properties happen because of extremely tight-nit bonds between carbon. I'm not a structural engineer or expert in materials science, but to weave diamond structures into an alloy would require similar sized atoms, would it not?
I always thought that the covenant used atomic layer deposition to build these ships It seems to line up with what you are saying as ALD would allow you to “grow” perfect crystals in whatever orientation you like. And you can stop and start ; adding different materials as you please . Being constructed in space ( you have a vacuum) all you need to do is deposit ( gas to solid) the base material and it’s charge would attract it too the Skeleton of the ship . Like in real life. It’s similar too epoxy on carbon fibre But now the fibre is some crazy metal alloy and the rest is just packed with layers and layers of filler. Which is probably a crazy crazy metal also. This would line up “stack” a certain way making uniform crystal structures. Sealing off certain parts and just working on one part at a time you could hypothetically make an entire ship in space just using charges and fields to dictate where the material is formed . It’s all head cannon. Unless they literally make ships like we do.. then yeah.
One day you should make a video about slipspace reclamation. The one thing that resists species from moving too much material too often across slipspace. I believe this is the plausible way non-paradoxical FTL travel is possible in real life.
Hm fascinating video, i always just had the notion that covenant super-capitals were built around recovered and repurposed ship sized sentinels. owing much of their strength to the sentinels they were built around. and finding ones suitably intact could have been why super-caps were something of a rare sight considering the resources at the covenants disposal.
Awesome work My friend, from a chemist who lives in Venezuela, i love your work, the passion you put in, and the level of detail you give to us. I like the video, and give me ideas to My work, sadly not material science, but since i'm staring to work with nanotech, maybe i can do something!?... To improve coatings and paints... Who need a chemist? I need Friends who likes science and halo...
Always wished they’d gone into more detail about the evolution of tech the covenant developed from the leftover forerunner goodies left behind. The books have some extras but tend to focus more on Halo current events and the Forerunners history. I still find it hard to believe that zero forerunners hid themselves away in a shield world or some other sanctuary.
Overall it makes decent sense... but there is the key part of actual realism on stresses these ships can take and how strong that material you theorize would actually be that wasn't touched on (beyond limited temperatures mentioned). At the end of the day, a writer/game designer just wrote something down that sounded cool/good after maybe some quick google searches on material sciences in order to explain away the designe for heir ships they'd already had artists make with nearly no real concern for physics but instead aesthetics.
I love how Halo is similar to Gunm in that aspect, hard material science "fiction" for the late 90's early 2000, so they never even would've guess the breakthroughs in material science by the mid 2000, like 2D materials, nanotubes, metamaterials, which makes me wonder, if the covenant fought our 26th century counterparts from the 2000 with some superiority I couldn't even guess how hard would be if they fought our version of the 26th century humans...
@installation00 I'd be very curious to read how a materials scientist would evaluate this video. Even if we can't fabricate something like this now, we could predict its mechanical properties. I wonder what the ultimate tensile/compressive strength of such a material would be? How much would it weigh? What would its thermal properties be?
Your content is always been wonderful if I had any suggestions maybe try giving some numerical values and then real world examples of those values just for a little spice
As metallurgical and material science engineering I'm baffel by the idea of such atomic structure being manufactured in such volume, turbine blades are one thing but beams with the wide of a football field and as long as the radius of a small city? Well, I guess that is what millenia of technological advancement does for you.
I love these kinds of breakdowns, it puts even more life to a franchise like this What you described, sounds very plausible, even if just in the far future... what the Covenant is at kind of, compared to the UNSC. Covenant ships are much more sleek and smooth, compared to the blocky and box-like nature of the megachad ships of the UNSC.
It's odd they would use a crystal material as while they are tensile strong or incredibly hard, they tend to have the trade off of being brittle due to their perfect atomic structure making perfect shear lines. It's basically the same as slicing wood down the grain. Yes diamonds are great for grinding things as they're so hard, but drop it on the floor or hit it with a hammer and it shatters to bits. In theory the best method for making material would be to use thin crystal layers that the grains are misaligned between layers giving both the hardness and durability. Honestly I kinda always assumed their armor was made with osmium as it has that unique bluish purple color and a melting point of 5491°F (3032°C). It also has the highest bulk modulus of any atom meaning it has the strongest bongs to compression which having a higher value is great when considering ballistic weapons. But the back on topic. The brittleness of crystals is the reason why researchers discovered the odd quantum properties of graphene when laid off angle 45° from the first sheet. They were trying to see if they could make 3D graphene that had both incredible tensile strength, hardness, and wasn't brittle. Of course today there actually seem to be even better metamaterials than graphene for most use cases. If you really want a breakdown of some of the most unique, I'd recommend Issac Arthur's video on Upcoming Advances In Material Science. There's some pretty unique ones I'd never heard of in the news.
I love your videos, but yes you hit it on the head at the end. I love listing to realistic application of your knowledge on stuff like this. After you explain it your way, could you ELI 5 (explain it like I'm 5) it for some of us lol. I like pictures, pictures are nice. All that aside tho, seriously love you content.
12:54 so you're asking for a grade? I GOT YOU BOO ❤❤❤!!! (Huge fan btw, been subbed for years) What I like: • Your voice gets an easy 117/10... It drips sex appeal. • Your topics get an 11/10. I find most of your videos are highly engaging (but there are a few duds, but that's entirely down to personal preference) • Your research is usually flawless, but no one's perfect. I'm completely comfortable giving you a 10/10 there. • Your pacing gets an 8/10. You truck on like a train: you cover every inch of ground with no shortcuts. It's a good practice, even if it does drag on from time to time. My complaints: • Your habit of what I call "tying the bow". When you teach someone something you can invision that exchange as a little gift you give them. You couldn't possibly give them a complete understanding of a topic with that one gift, so really what you're trying to do is wrap up as much of the topic as you can and present it with _a nice little bow._ You can think of the bow as how you tie together all the little threads of logic, almost like a thesis. Your bad habit is trying to link everything everything together, let your audience do that boo :)
Yeah for me the problem is if these are supposedly a single beam assembled in one piece, then there has to be an assembly forge somewhere that is like 30 km long dedicated to growing just a single piece of metal... and I refuse to believe that there would be a machine that large able to churn out pieces that perfectly, consistently. Given we see Lore that says that the assembly forges are prone to transcription errors and I legitimately don't think the Covenant would want a supercarrier suddenly having its keel shatter because there was a error like 20 km down-the-line that they weren't able to detect because it's a 29 km long beam...
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It’s the mark of the truely intelligent to take something complicated and then describe/explain it in a way that anyone can understand it.
Hey man, you should attempt to create these alloys with some metal workers and see about contacting some labs for some harder to obtain materials. I'm sure those nerdy dudes would love to make a halo alloy.
The idea that some of this may be in the least bit plausible is one of the things I love most about the Halo Universe.
If it is real, may God show mercy to the poor souls that will encounter the flood. I'd rather get glassed
Halo always felt more grounded and like a realistic aesthetic of what future human military might look like. I love that about it
On large enough time scales, not only is the Halo Universe plausible, it is inevitable. We cannot know for sure if the franchise is literally prophetic.
@@extremosaur Humanity should start preparing for the war against the Covenant now, just in case we find out it's real ~500 years from now
Thats what i loved about Bungie
It's amazing if you think about the odds the UNSC faced. The fact that they came out on top is impressive, even with some of the Chiefs luck, they still barley came out on top
The whole reason they won I think is because of the Great Schism. Without that humanity would be annihilated.
That is true that did help out, but 117 being lucky and surviving everything thrown at him, and being at the right place right time help tremendously. Who knows if the elite would have come to the aid of humanity if the Arbiter hadn't become friendly with Chief, Johnson and others
That's why infinite campaign lore has so much potential, if 343i can keep up.
This goes back to Noble Team. If they hadn’t gotten Cortana to the Pillar Of Autumn then they wouldn’t have found Halo. Thel wouldn’t have lost the ring and would still be the leader of the Fleet Of Particular Justice. The Covenant would have come to Earth and the UNSC would be screwed. Truth and Mercy would find the portal to the Ark and would have activated the array.
That's something I never really realized when playing the original and post war games. Humanity was being beaten hard. After I realized that, it became even easier to see why Chief became such a beacon of hope for humanity
I am no brainy in the STEM fields and I was able to follow along nicely and understand the process. Nice work
Given the data pulled from Halo's science department and our advancements in material science, what timelines can we talk about before Titanium-A and Covenant materials can be replicated on a mass scale, or even have improvements?
In a sense, we're already doing Covenant nanolaminate. See also; ModuMetal.
low hundreds of years.
Maybe less, if AI keeps going so well as it has in the past couple decades.
Titanium A was mined on Reach. CASTLE BASE was built under the mines.
@@thebandoffice53 Titanium A is an alloy. Reach is just rich in titanium.
We will, eventually. Humans have immense potential, if we don't destroy ourselves on this planet first. (Pursue renewables and alternative building materials!)
I don't know about most other people, but for me personally, I am able to understand your breakdowns quite well. As for this specific video, it is amazing how plausible these material capabilities are, and I hope it won't be too long before we can do it ourselves IRL.
I'm in complete awe. Makes me wish I studied harder in college. I don't think I have that eloquent or detailed knowledge of my field even after a decade of work.
This made more sense that star trek's communicators, and we still managed to get smart phones out of that idea, so I think you nailed it.
As an absolute novice in this field, it made total sense to me. Thank you. I love this stuff, and it's very helpful to my worldbuilding as a writer.
Your next challange is tackling the Forerunners! Good luck! XD
My dude here is busy inventing 26th century metallurgy for free on TH-cam.
I feel like a cobalt-superalloy/single-crystal-diamond composite would be so strong even a nuclear explosion wouldn't damage it. Though maybe it _would_ buckle over such long distances as the material exists in Covenant supercruisers.
Nanometalic foam would reduce the weight and explain the macro strength of the skeletal structure, while also explaining the specific fatigue that we see in the shops captured by the flood proto-graveminds.
High density element alloys interspaced with elemental crystals with sp3d2 interlinking with multiple points of the alloy foam.
Just a thought
Works just fine for me! Perhaps a little slower on the more complex moments, but that'd be a bit for others I think.
We will probably start doing things like this at scale sooner rather than later.
Like He Said We already use this for turbine blades.
But since due to the Sticky Finger Dilemma we probably won't have Grey Goo style programmable nano machines.
The Most efficient way would be to have the material grow in smaller pieces.
And then like atomically precise Lego Bricks place them at its exact location in the final structure and "Weld" them creating a perfect continuous crystalline structure.
For some reason, the thought of flying in space in what amounts to extremely scientific LEGO ships.. Is hilariously scary.
@@stuperman117 Technically we already do that with welding in space shuttles. What he described would actually be far better and safer than that.
@@isaackinsley1662 To be fair, I'm not.. Really knowledgeable about anything space fairing.. Hell, I barely know how to keep my own bike in decent repair, other than oil for the chain. To learn that is.. Surprisingly awesome though.
well they could be built in orbit, no need to worry about space constraints for ship building up there
I like how this channel has become edutainment that is both learning materials science and halo lore.
Little known halo fact: the UNSC Infinity has many portions of its hull reenforced with dead rats.
I love the Covenant and Banished ships. It goes to show how the UNSC has been overpowered by ships from both factions. 👍❤️
The unsc is still incredibly primitive.
@@nil981 partly, yes. Covenant/Banished technology is mostly past Humanity's prime in the 26th century. Although at times, the UNSC stood their ground in various conflicts with the enemy factions.
We have a insurgent right here
@@strikerdelit2649 how so? 😂
@@madness0169 because your a unsc slander
This is making me wonder what the UNSC, or more likely its AIs, could create had they ever captured a functional, ship scale assembly forge. There's oh so much potential in that sort of hybridization.
Absolutely gold btw. This is very accessible. I would love to see some animation made by you of what you might speculate to be the process of these crazy manufacturing standards might be.
They have artificial gravity, even gravity lifts. I'd assume they have ways to control the inertia or weight of different sections of the ship, instead of the weight compounding on some foundation or skeleton like in a modern building. Materials might only need a fraction of the strength, depending on how flexible those gravity generators are.
I went to school to be a lowly civil engineer and I dropped out and even I was able to understand what you're talking about so you did a good job making it approachable.
Do you think you could do a most detailed on the CSO class supercarrier?
You are the best channel for Halo because of this work you do. This is the stuff I like to learn about being somewhat of a passion for metallurgy because of my passion for knives and firearms. Plus once being in the U.S. Air Force as a pavements & heavy equipment, we dealt with all sorts of projects that dealt with building.
Excellent video as usual. I enjoy this series very much. I feel your explanations to be quite understandable and the visuals you use, particularly in this one where very helpful. Keep up the fantastic work my friend!
I think that the most beautiful part of this entire explanation is the idea that everything that you said could potentially be brought to life in our reality given n time.
1:38 the bigger the ship, the bigger the power requirement. The bigger the power requirement, the bigger the reactor core. The bigger the reactor core, the bigger the boom when it gets destroyed. The bigger the boom when it gets destroyed, the more material vaporizes and is lost forever!
I'd love to see not only you going in depth about the specific topic, but maybe compare it to the other respective factions in terms of performance and cababilities! That would be awesome
Size doesn't matter, it's the motion in the ocean... as they say.
this was really interesting, good video!
I found your explanations of the metals and materials sciences completely understandable. Nicely done!
Deserves way more views. I have little understanding of STEM but you made it so interesting. That with your enthusiasm made that really enjoyable to watch
I got lost when you decided which metal would be used. I am a layman and understood up until we jumped to a cobalt alloy. Good concept!
when we finally discover alien life we need 00 to talk their engineers so that we can build ships of our own, Great Vid 00 thanks again
As an Engineer myself, I really enjoyed this!
I have a different area of specialism but everything you postulated seemed logical.
Good to see that I'm not the only person who wonders about things like this 😂😂
I very much so appreciate every time i watch these videos! But one thing i appreciated here specifically is you brought in your own areas of expertise to formulate an idea, it shows dedication and a bit of creativity! Thank you for the great content Instillation00
In Halo: Oblivion, the UNSC was defending a Xenotime mine from the covenant in the first few chapters. What was so important about that resource?
Cheers brother. Been watching your videos for just about a month now. You are not only the best channel for Halo Lore, but one of the best channels in every iteration and vector of science. Big fan and I look forward to supporting your channel as soon as possible. Keep up the great work and I hope this message finds you well.
it's a possibility, i do like the way you broke down each alloy and dug very deep into the facts.
Such a good day to hear other nerds nerding and merging theories. Yes this I makes perfect sense. Many times a character in the book will make reference that the ships look organic. All you think of is how do you grow metal?? And then bam! Science can grow diamonds. We just need a gun or wand to levitate tons of material and a teleport device or a storage unit we can carry at all times. No need for flying vehicles and unnecessary wait times for anything
8:40 Where is that amazing animation from?! I've never seen this one!
I *love* your work, you make mumbo-jumbo sound understandable.
That came out years ago when halo 5 was coming out
Well done sir. I followed most of video and I will be rewatching it several times to fill in the gaps.
what are Covenant ships made of?
Well if the Master Chief and Cortana are involved .... explodium
Ooh, nice! I always get a kick out of you being able to use that big engineer brain of yours!
This channel is top 3 for me on TH-cam!
13:05 i love how you just ghover wrecked that Palidan/Palladium"Is that what peopelwanted?} Phantom
They wouldn’t use nano machines I don’t think they’d use the Hugock since they are forerunner created constructs that have tentacles that go down to the nanoscale
Amazing video. You do an excellent job at approaching topics in an easy-to-understand way despite me not knowing anything about chemistry or physics. If only my teachers could explain science to me the way you can; you get me inspired to learn more about science.
Neat. Atomic scale reinforcement of an intermetallic is similar to white paper I read a whole back about interweaving of graphene sheets within each other such that the individual hexane rings are looped together.
As a mechanical engineer who has been a product engineer for Single Crystal , DS and Equiax turbine blades I like the idea of some sort of SC component. From a material stand point I agree with the use of something like niobium probably an alloy with more platinum group metals, tantalum and tungsten. Tantalum and tungsten have very high melting points but are brittle so they aren't good in high concentrations in rotating components. But maybe higher percentages when centripetal force isn't a great concern. Also they are heavy but if they don't have to worry about propulsion via chemical means the weight might not be as big of a deal as it is today. Platinum group metals generally have very high melting points, but are currently not used in turbine blades much do to high cost of raw materials. Platinum is used to make turbine blades in very small quantities to balance the internal ceramic core during the casting process. From a Mechanical design aspect I think the artist of the picture you show got it wrong for the super structure. I think the structure would look more like what you see in an AI generated design, where it looks more like the roots of a mangrove tree (not sure how else to describe it). idk if a superstructure would exist, more like a combination of an exo and endo skeleton where forces are distributed across the entire body. Its more mechanically efficient from a design stand point, we just don't do it today much because its hard to manufacture, 3D printing is starting to change that where we can make these designs. Overall the video was super cool. I enjoyed it.
Well done!
Now I picture High Charity as a huge mining / ship building facility that goes around extracting all those minerals and building ships out of it. It's "civilian" population all being involved in this enterprise in some capacity.
I waited till the end. Your explanation of material used and crystalline formation, is spot on. If you were to take the density of the material, which density has a direct correlation to Mass. The covenants City size dreadnought would weigh almost in the billions of tons. But if you make the crystalline matrix to have pockets, air, argon something, even vacuum. The mass/weight will drop to 35 to 50%. Take beryllium carbide for example. It's force deflection is almost 300% more than your average steel. Cobalt is a good source they don't have to paint their ships metals or ceramic metals it will naturally be blue. Cobalt is blue, some kind of red to make it look that purple. i was thinking it was some kind of tungsten. Cobalt and tungsten don't mix very well on a subatomic level. the theory, actually it's not a theory, absorbing energy from weapons. you can recharge batteries. That's why the MAC guns were so successful because they were a projectile, not energy. Their shields will over load with sustained shots from energy weapons. But the kinetic energy AKA actual mass will pierce their Shields. To stop mass penetrating you would need a particle shield.
That was a great examination. This may just because I'm also science minded and excelled at understanding physics and the basics of engineering but it was very easy to follow along with
For me it made absolute perfect sense because I took it from two perspectives of my own
First a fan of metallurgy and second as a student of alchemy
"You want ALL the details." It's like you know.
Star Trek used structural integrity force fields to maintain the ships shape as it was designed. The Covenant also had protective force fields just like Star Trek so they may have had structural integrity force fields as well.
amazing detail, even if at times i had a hard time following :) what would make it better is adding some sort of theoretical comparison of how this material would fare against its UNSC counterparts in typical use cases (like how much firepower would it take to punch a hole through it, etc).
I followed about 65% of what you said. If I understood your technical speech, I believe what you were saying is that using nanomachines, The covenant weaves its armor in all three dimensions using complementary materials first and, in its third dimension weaves a diamond-like reinforcing thread through each atom, kinda like crocheting metal to maximize material cohesion and minimizing material inclusions and imperfections from every atomic angle. Sound about right?
Yes!!! This is a question that I’ve been wondering the answer to for ages!
Your explanation was perfect, to me you don't need to change anything
Agreed
I'm not big on Halo lore, I mean my favorite game of the entire series was the original, yet the way you break down stuff about the Covenant and other things from the "Haloverse", I think you might have a new subscriber... I've watched about a dozen of your videos so far, and yes I can say without a doubt you've earned a subscribe from me... Keep pumping out the great content please...
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Awesome content as always, thank you
We might not even need nano bots. We can already achieve semicrystalline features using FDM printing in plastics. Its probably only a matter of time before a recipe is discovered for metals too and instead of wasting time and energy on a full mono crystal structure we can just orientate things to take advantage of the grain direction.
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I love your breakdown of your concept. Honestly, You're kinda like a monitor^^
That was...........wow. Incredible. When i saw the video's title I immediately thought Nanaolanimate which you covered only to be surprised your going in depth with your video. I loved it. Great to see this content.
I mostly understand your hypothesis about it's structural design. It could be replicated in a newer concept of "Nanite clean room" facility with the materials being either 3D printed for a initial pre designed structure (example early bow designs of animals/plant fiber epoxy over wooden frame, but upscaled ; another visual concept example is the Marker production lab in the game Dead space 2). The only problems would be Nanite & computer programming,cost,and materials that are not structural processable now to create the desired alloys blends.
i think they use Hardlight manipulation techniques to achieve this. it isnt nanites but hardlight that assembles it into a perfect lattice.
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Are Cobalt/alloys not too large to have a diamond structure within them. My understanding is that those diamond properties happen because of extremely tight-nit bonds between carbon. I'm not a structural engineer or expert in materials science, but to weave diamond structures into an alloy would require similar sized atoms, would it not?
I always thought that the covenant used atomic layer deposition to build these ships
It seems to line up with what you are saying as ALD would allow you to “grow” perfect crystals in whatever orientation you like. And you can stop and start ; adding different materials as you please .
Being constructed in space ( you have a vacuum) all you need to do is deposit ( gas to solid) the base material and it’s charge would attract it too the Skeleton of the ship . Like in real life.
It’s similar too epoxy on carbon fibre
But now the fibre is some crazy metal alloy and the rest is just packed with layers and layers of filler. Which is probably a crazy crazy metal also. This would line up “stack” a certain way making uniform crystal structures.
Sealing off certain parts and just working on one part at a time you could hypothetically make an entire ship in space just using charges and fields to dictate where the material is formed .
It’s all head cannon. Unless they literally make ships like we do.. then yeah.
One day you should make a video about slipspace reclamation. The one thing that resists species from moving too much material too often across slipspace. I believe this is the plausible way non-paradoxical FTL travel is possible in real life.
Hm fascinating video, i always just had the notion that covenant super-capitals were built around recovered and repurposed ship sized sentinels. owing much of their strength to the sentinels they were built around. and finding ones suitably intact could have been why super-caps were something of a rare sight considering the resources at the covenants disposal.
Awesome work My friend, from a chemist who lives in Venezuela, i love your work, the passion you put in, and the level of detail you give to us.
I like the video, and give me ideas to My work, sadly not material science, but since i'm staring to work with nanotech, maybe i can do something!?... To improve coatings and paints...
Who need a chemist? I need Friends who likes science and halo...
Every time i watch your detailed breakdowns, the only thing I think after is "fuck yeah science"
Are you gonna cover the UNSC ships as well?
Good think piece on Covenant engineering.
Johnson voice " I don't know what I've been told! Covi ships are fucking grown !"
Always wished they’d gone into more detail about the evolution of tech the covenant developed from the leftover forerunner goodies left behind. The books have some extras but tend to focus more on Halo current events and the Forerunners history. I still find it hard to believe that zero forerunners hid themselves away in a shield world or some other sanctuary.
Overall it makes decent sense... but there is the key part of actual realism on stresses these ships can take and how strong that material you theorize would actually be that wasn't touched on (beyond limited temperatures mentioned). At the end of the day, a writer/game designer just wrote something down that sounded cool/good after maybe some quick google searches on material sciences in order to explain away the designe for heir ships they'd already had artists make with nearly no real concern for physics but instead aesthetics.
"You want all the details. So let's get into it." (Doritos commercial immediately plays) 😂
I love how Halo is similar to Gunm in that aspect, hard material science "fiction" for the late 90's early 2000, so they never even would've guess the breakthroughs in material science by the mid 2000, like 2D materials, nanotubes, metamaterials, which makes me wonder, if the covenant fought our 26th century counterparts from the 2000 with some superiority I couldn't even guess how hard would be if they fought our version of the 26th century humans...
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@installation00 I'd be very curious to read how a materials scientist would evaluate this video. Even if we can't fabricate something like this now, we could predict its mechanical properties. I wonder what the ultimate tensile/compressive strength of such a material would be? How much would it weigh? What would its thermal properties be?
My two year old cousin says they are made of purple and taste like grape. Kids are awesome.
Flesh and Faith of course; some of the strongest stuff out there.
I understood everything, nice vid man!
Your content is always been wonderful if I had any suggestions maybe try giving some numerical values and then real world examples of those values just for a little spice
Dude.... And here I thought that the UNSC had impressive manufacturing capabilities......
As metallurgical and material science engineering I'm baffel by the idea of such atomic structure being manufactured in such volume, turbine blades are one thing but beams with the wide of a football field and as long as the radius of a small city?
Well, I guess that is what millenia of technological advancement does for you.
I love these kinds of breakdowns, it puts even more life to a franchise like this
What you described, sounds very plausible, even if just in the far future... what the Covenant is at kind of, compared to the UNSC. Covenant ships are much more sleek and smooth, compared to the blocky and box-like nature of the megachad ships of the UNSC.
It's odd they would use a crystal material as while they are tensile strong or incredibly hard, they tend to have the trade off of being brittle due to their perfect atomic structure making perfect shear lines. It's basically the same as slicing wood down the grain. Yes diamonds are great for grinding things as they're so hard, but drop it on the floor or hit it with a hammer and it shatters to bits. In theory the best method for making material would be to use thin crystal layers that the grains are misaligned between layers giving both the hardness and durability. Honestly I kinda always assumed their armor was made with osmium as it has that unique bluish purple color and a melting point of 5491°F (3032°C). It also has the highest bulk modulus of any atom meaning it has the strongest bongs to compression which having a higher value is great when considering ballistic weapons.
But the back on topic. The brittleness of crystals is the reason why researchers discovered the odd quantum properties of graphene when laid off angle 45° from the first sheet. They were trying to see if they could make 3D graphene that had both incredible tensile strength, hardness, and wasn't brittle. Of course today there actually seem to be even better metamaterials than graphene for most use cases. If you really want a breakdown of some of the most unique, I'd recommend Issac Arthur's video on Upcoming Advances In Material Science. There's some pretty unique ones I'd never heard of in the news.
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I love your videos, but yes you hit it on the head at the end. I love listing to realistic application of your knowledge on stuff like this. After you explain it your way, could you ELI 5 (explain it like I'm 5) it for some of us lol. I like pictures, pictures are nice. All that aside tho, seriously love you content.
It’s actually covered with a thin layer of saltwater taffy.
12:54 so you're asking for a grade? I GOT YOU BOO ❤❤❤!!! (Huge fan btw, been subbed for years)
What I like:
• Your voice gets an easy 117/10... It drips sex appeal.
• Your topics get an 11/10. I find most of your videos are highly engaging (but there are a few duds, but that's entirely down to personal preference)
• Your research is usually flawless, but no one's perfect. I'm completely comfortable giving you a 10/10 there.
• Your pacing gets an 8/10. You truck on like a train: you cover every inch of ground with no shortcuts. It's a good practice, even if it does drag on from time to time.
My complaints:
• Your habit of what I call "tying the bow". When you teach someone something you can invision that exchange as a little gift you give them. You couldn't possibly give them a complete understanding of a topic with that one gift, so really what you're trying to do is wrap up as much of the topic as you can and present it with _a nice little bow._
You can think of the bow as how you tie together all the little threads of logic, almost like a thesis. Your bad habit is trying to link everything everything together, let your audience do that boo :)
Does OSHA extend to the covenant?
I own a Halo: Warfleet book and it's a great book to look at and read through.
Yeah for me the problem is if these are supposedly a single beam assembled in one piece, then there has to be an assembly forge somewhere that is like 30 km long dedicated to growing just a single piece of metal... and I refuse to believe that there would be a machine that large able to churn out pieces that perfectly, consistently.
Given we see Lore that says that the assembly forges are prone to transcription errors and I legitimately don't think the Covenant would want a supercarrier suddenly having its keel shatter because there was a error like 20 km down-the-line that they weren't able to detect because it's a 29 km long beam...
What are Covenant ships made of..?
The tears of the worthy & the bones of the undeserving.. Clearly.
The deep lore is so realistic
i haven't watched this video, but I know the answer. its SPACE METAL