The Picard Maneuver to Star Wars [email protected]English • 1 month agoThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1564arrow-down13
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minus-squareteftlinkfedilinkEnglish13•1 month agoNot all blasters fire particle beams. Some fire plasma bolts that could conceivably give recoil. Also she is using the stun setting here. Maybe that gives extra kick.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•1 month agoGiven the low velocity of the projectile, it could at best shot twice before it’s mass is gone.
minus-squareFuglyDucklinkfedilinkEnglish12•edit-21 month agoIt’s a blaster. It blasts stuffs. What do you want, scientific accuracy in a space opera fantasy? Okay. Then lasers also have recoil… just different recoil.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•1 month agoThat’s not a laser pistol. Star Wars blasters are plasma weapons. Brush up on your lore if you’re gonna nitpick.
minus-squaresynae[he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 month agoUh huh. And what about the people hit by the laser blasts getting knocked back, do you care about those?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoMomentum is conserved even if it’s perfectly coherent light
Who cares
I care that a laser pistol has a recoil.
Not all blasters fire particle beams. Some fire plasma bolts that could conceivably give recoil. Also she is using the stun setting here. Maybe that gives extra kick.
Given the low velocity of the projectile, it could at best shot twice before it’s mass is gone.
It’s a blaster.
It blasts stuffs. What do you want, scientific accuracy in a space opera fantasy?
Okay. Then lasers also have recoil… just different recoil.
That’s not a laser pistol. Star Wars blasters are plasma weapons. Brush up on your lore if you’re gonna nitpick.
poser doofus
Uh huh. And what about the people hit by the laser blasts getting knocked back, do you care about those?
Momentum is conserved even if it’s perfectly coherent light
That sounds cromulent to me