like back when the flood attack against the forruners.how did we survive the halo array. since we did .could we go back to the place where we survived it the first time and survive the halo blast again?

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Death is a part of life.
So how are you going to go out?

We weren't alive 100,000 years ago. We started at 40,000 B.C.

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The halos are made to kill all life, but I say the only reason why we made it was from (it's hard to explain) eventually over time life would have started back up and slowly spread.

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Earth is out of reach of the fire zone. I read and heard this somewhere.

The Halo Array were built to house the Flood and to deprive the Flood food.

The Forerunners built a sort of machine on Earth that speeds up evolution and quicking growth of new lifeforms. Also read this somewhere.

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In my times, the darkened days,
Evil invaded the world.
We farmers,
We workers of the Red Union,
We united and slaughtered them all.
The brave soul,
Above the evil,
Planted our inspiration atop their burning cities.
- Ruski

Second Lieutenant Kyle Bradley:

Earth is out of reach of the fire zone. I read and heard this somewhere.

The Halo Array were built to house the Flood and to deprive the Flood food.

The Forerunners built a sort of machine on Earth that speeds up evolution and quicking growth of new lifeforms. Also read this somewhere.

No, Earth is within the blast radius. Otherwise there would be no point in having a gateway to the Ark there.

Humanity survived the Halo blasts because the Librarian brought them to the Ark, which is outside of our galaxy, so it is outside the range of the Halo Array.

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Opress the Opressed

I was just stating something that I heared before.

I've known that it was or why would Cortana state that we need to stop Halo from firing and save Humanity in Halo: Combat Evovled and Halo: The Flood and also why else would Miranda Keyes keep saying in Halo 3 to stop the Halo Array from firing that would kill every last human.

Not being mean or anything. Just stating this.

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In my times, the darkened days,
Evil invaded the world.
We farmers,
We workers of the Red Union,
We united and slaughtered them all.
The brave soul,
Above the evil,
Planted our inspiration atop their burning cities.
- Ruski

Why would the flood fire the halo rings? All they would be doing is destroying there food essentially killing themselves. 

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He who thinks by the inch but talks by the yard should be kicked by the foot.

True. They would more likely try to destroy it or take the index from the ring. (Latter is based of knowledge of Flood in Halo 2 or earlier as they do not know about the Ark)

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In my times, the darkened days,
Evil invaded the world.
We farmers,
We workers of the Red Union,
We united and slaughtered them all.
The brave soul,
Above the evil,
Planted our inspiration atop their burning cities.
- Ruski

zaki90:

We weren't alive 100,000 years ago. We started at 40,000 B.C.

Incorrect. 100,000 years ago the first humans were migrating out of Africa (completely supportive of the Halo Installations firing as the portal was in Africa and after their firing humanity began to spread back out over the planet)

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Alpha Noob:

like back when the flood attack against the forruners.how did we survive the halo array. since we did .could we go back to the place where we survived it the first time and survive the halo blast again?

Well that's simple:

The invincible Marines from the Pillar of Autumn would be left alive and would hunt down any surviving flood!

 

I think everyone else answered the question correctly already

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"The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath"-Led Zeppelin

actually if yuo read halo ghosts of onyx it willsay something about onyx being a shield world.

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a hero need not speak when he is gone. the world will speak for him.

Yes that's correct, the Forerunners "indexed" us, protecting us, then when the installations were fired, we were taken back to Earth via that portal and the Forerunner's creations (The other type of sentinel found on Onyx) and then we just went about doing our buisiness.

The Forerunner favourited us (apparently we were the most like them) and so gave us and only us the ability to activate the Halo rings.

 You can find this info on Ascendant Justice's blogs, or if you want to manually do it - read the terminals on different difficulties and read the 5 (soon to be 6, yay!) Halo novels:

Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, Ghosts of Onxy, Contact Harvest and the later-this-year-to-be-released  Cole Protocol.

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