• Snowclone@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    In My experience energy weapons turn the victim into a toothpaste like glowing blue puddle.

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      5 months ago

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

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        5 months 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.

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          5 months 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.