• @FiniteBanjo
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    183 days ago

    Wouldn’t Directed Energy Weapons make him burn and itch so bad he’d jump around?

    We have those, we’ve used them in real combat, but they don’t work like that.

      • @FiniteBanjo
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        32 days ago

        Your fallout experience also tells you lasers have recoil, so I wouldn’t place any value in that.

        • @evranch@lemmy.ca
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          42 days ago

          Sure lasers don’t have recoil, but I see no reason a laser gun can’t have recoil.

          Anything from flywheel energy storage, a lasing medium compressed by pistons, massive magnetic fields created by high currents, who knows what’s inside that thing.

          A handheld laser gun has to generate a beam of such unrealistic intensity that I’d be surprised if the power stage didn’t buck in some manner.

          • @FiniteBanjo
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            2 days ago

            Yeah all the mass of the photons being propelled out has a real kick. /sarcasm

            No offence to you, at all, but the fact that your comment is a 3:1 ratio makes me sad for the future of humanity.

      • @FiniteBanjo
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        12 days ago

        I asked a question and I’m legitimately curious, got some sources?

          • @FiniteBanjo
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            32 days ago

            Got it, so what I said stands uncontested. Beam weapons do not work that way.

            • Liz
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              22 days ago

              Oh, sorry, yeah, I thought you were just asking about how those things with in general, not whether such a weapon could make someone confused. Yeah we don’t have anything that works that way.