Kotaku
Halo is a hoot to play, but as an exercise in story-telling? Bit of a mess. The science behind it? A lot more interesting. Kevin R. Grazier, Ph.D., who's such a super-nerd he gives science advice to Battlestar Galactica, has taken a look at Halo's science, and broken down what's good, what's bad and what's just poppycock. Try this on and see if it's to your liking:
The apparent gravity on Installations 04 and 05 is close to that of Earth. For a Halo with a radius of 5,000 kilometers to simulate one Earth gravity, it would have to spin with a tangential speed of slightly over seven kilometers per second. That implies that the Halo would rotate once every hour and fifteen minutes, or 19 times a day.
If that puts you to sleep, might want to give this a miss. If, however, the prospect of a Halo waterfall vs gravity-driven waterfall single drop trajectory graph gets you all hot and steamy under the collar, read on! You kinky science nerd, you.
Halo Science 101 [Gamasutra]
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