Half Life/Portal world question

[MysticToast]

Portal technology and fall boots are way more useful to the military than zero-point energy field manipulation.

Yes to the long-fall boots, no to the portal gun. It's not practical enough since it can only create portals on one type of surface. And carrying around the moon rock gel isn't efficient in any way. So that avenue is closed (scientists dead, GLaDOS obsessed with testing) since there is no one to improve the design of the gun to work on various surfaces.

I think I'll stick with the "lift'n'squash" gun.

I don't think ground up moon rocks is the only surface you can place portals on. I'm not sure but it seems to me like they discovered that you can ALSO grind up the moon for portals, in addition to the usable surfaces on earth.

That's what I just said. In adiition to the white panels in Aperture, you also have the White gel (made from moon rocks). Which you cannot carry with you all the time. In this case, portals cannot be used in a fast-paced military operation. Only in controled environments, like a lab or a base.

That's not what I meant. The panels in Aperature appear to be made out of concrete or something similar. And the fact you can place portals in the bowels of the facility (where they wouldn't have had a need to put moon rock gel) shows that it's not just limited to where they want you to do it.

But you still NEED the panels or a suitable surface to do it. That's my point. The portal gun is too pretentious to be used outside a controlled environment.

Well they found out the moon (of all things) is portalable, so who knows what other surfaces and be portaled? I'm just trying to think of all the possibilities.

 

[JET1971]

I hate to burst some bubbles but the majority of military innovations have been in transportion and material handling, while weapons took the spotlight. the military cannot survive on an empty stomach and the guns are no more than clubs without ammo. both gravity gun and portal gun fit that perfectly even if they would be near useless on a battlefield compared to lets say a bullet that can go around corners.

 

[kortin]

Face it - after Portal 2, that universe has nothing to do with the Half-Life one. Apart from the extremely fucking clever reference by Cave Johnson, of course. Stop trying to make sense of it.

And that harbor easter egg.

See something that is making me wonder is...

Spoiler

at the end of Episode 2 when they see the Ship, wasn't it like wrecked somewhere in an icy place or whatever? Then why the hell is it still in the dock in the abandoned Aperture Science labs from the 80's?

An empty dock is there. No ship.

Sigh... shows how much I pay attention. For some reason I thought that that was the dock and the ship was the wall next to it.

Man I'm an idiot ...

I actually recall a ship somewhere in portal 2. However, that ship is not Borealis, seeing as borealis is somewhere in the icy reaches.