You're right. (Destiny)

by Funkmon , Monday, April 20, 2015, 18:04 (3595 days ago) @ narcogen
edited by Funkmon, Monday, April 20, 2015, 18:14

But through the magic of apologetics, we can accept this.

So, The Last Array was almost definitely a bunch of satellite dishes, but when ghost says "Up the hill. The building with the radar. That's the Skywatch," he may have been accurate. That may be a radar dish. We can't really tell, because they're all reflector antennae. Then he says "We're in. This was one of Skywatch's old array stations: a link to the lunar colonies." He MAY be talking about the building, which has more than that massive reflector, and may have a massive pile of radio transmitters, with a hidden reflector we just don't see for communication (remember, the big ones only come out during the story mission), or they might communicate using microwaves, informally called radar (like radar ranges/microwave ovens), as we currently do with point to point satellites, though between planets it seems unlikely. They may have invented some kind of space magic though that makes using microwaves feasible between the Earth and the moon, and they may continue to use them for legacy communication with old cell phones, wifi networks, etc.

So, using complicated techniques of denial, it could work, and I like my colloquial explanation.

However, using Occam's razor, yeah, they totally screwed up. In fact, almost everything related to astronomy in this game is completely inaccurate. Oh well! Space magic.