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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #60 on: July 17, 2008, 01:59:43 PM »
I can't believe no one has said either of the two I immediately thought of.

Farsight XR-20 from the Perfect Dark series.  An example of a completely broken weapon that should never exist in an FPS.  Auto tracks targets, through walls in an X-ray mode and kills in one hit.  Awesome.

The Man-Portable Railgun from Eraser.  Kinda similar to the Farsight in fact, but those little swirls that it makes in the air are just too good to be denied.  Also, the simple fact that you are firing something that *somehow* they figured out to miniaturize from a full-sized battleship canon to being man portable just makes me giggle forever.
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #61 on: July 17, 2008, 06:25:58 PM »
Quote from: Slate on July 17, 2008, 01:59:43 PM
The Man-Portable Railgun from Eraser.  Kinda similar to the Farsight in fact, but those little swirls that it makes in the air are just too good to be denied.  Also, the simple fact that you are firing something that *somehow* they figured out to miniaturize from a full-sized battleship canon to being man portable just makes me giggle forever.
What I found funnier was that they were firing *aluminium* rounds... Someone need to teach them a thing or two about magnetism...
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #62 on: July 17, 2008, 06:27:45 PM »
Hey, they could have been firing copper rounds :P

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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #63 on: July 17, 2008, 06:29:15 PM »
Quote from: AndyJames on July 17, 2008, 06:25:58 PM
What I found funnier was that they were firing *aluminium* rounds... Someone need to teach them a thing or two about magnetism...

But you didn't know aluminium is lighter and more sturdy? It is evidently better... :lol
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #64 on: July 17, 2008, 07:53:54 PM »
Point of interest: Aluminum is paramagnetic. I remembered that it was somehow magnetic, but not the name or the extent, so I looked it up. It's possible that the difference in density of aluminum paired with its high resistance (which I think would cause it to heat up more than ferrous metals) would make it a useful candidate for railgunning. (I don't know railguns at all...hafta look them up too, now :D)

Edit: Oops. My favorite fictional weapon is a +1 to the Lightsaber. It just rocks.
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #65 on: July 17, 2008, 09:48:26 PM »
No. The power transferrence in a rail gun uses the formula:

F = BIl
where F = force, B = magnetic field intensity, I = current going through the rails, l = length of rails

Magnetic field intensity is the thing we are looking at here. Paramagnetic is in the order of a few tens, if not hundreds, of times less than a ferromagnetic substance, IIRC, which means the current (I) requirements for the same amount of force (F) would be 10s-100s times more (since length (l) is fixed also).

However, this is *minutely* compensated for when you consider Ek = 0.5mv^2, but that is no where near enough...
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #66 on: July 17, 2008, 10:40:38 PM »
Completely OT: Check out the pics on this wikiPedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrofluid ('course I found it while looking up the railgun and magnetism, et al.)
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #67 on: July 17, 2008, 10:54:13 PM »
I know it isn't exactly an accurate source, to say the least, but this article has a part about rail guns and it says an aluminum slug was used.  I checked the links and didn't find where it was specified.  The writer may have been mistaken--I dunno.
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #68 on: July 17, 2008, 11:02:22 PM »
Man... 10.6MW is a LOT of power...
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #69 on: July 18, 2008, 03:17:42 AM »
You ever notice that the gamers have way to much intelligence...

Just too SMRT
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #70 on: July 18, 2008, 01:47:25 PM »
Quote from: Chemus on July 17, 2008, 10:40:38 PM
Completely OT: Check out the pics on this wikiPedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrofluid ('course I found it while looking up the railgun and magnetism, et al.)
That is awesome.
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #71 on: July 18, 2008, 02:09:28 PM »
Apparently, the amount of flowing current determines the actual magnetic properties of the railgun. If it were a gauss cannon, then the aluminum seems like a truly laughable choice, but as a railgun, considering the high conductivity and low density of aluminum, the current running through it looks like the deciding factor. I'm rilly not a egspert tho. I've been wrong once before, though I could have been mistaken about that. Here are links, both from the wikipedia railgun entry bibliography thingy, to what hs made me think this way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0YRslyGiOI
http://science.howstuffworks.com/rail-gun1.htm

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Edit: PXY- Aren't those pics amazing?
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #72 on: July 19, 2008, 02:24:17 AM »
Quote from: Slate on July 17, 2008, 01:59:43 PM
I can't believe no one has said either of the two I immediately thought of.

Farsight XR-20 from the Perfect Dark series.  <snip>
I can't believe you didn't read the thread before making that sort of claim.

http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=451.msg28415#msg28415 was posted 21 hours before your post...
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #73 on: July 19, 2008, 08:11:02 AM »
The Holy Hand Grenade! Even the Killer Rabbit shall fall before its might!
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #74 on: July 22, 2008, 10:16:12 PM »
I can't believe no one is supporting me and Lasercats!
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #75 on: July 22, 2008, 10:19:33 PM »
I'm not familiar with Lasercats. They sound hard to wield...;)
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #76 on: July 22, 2008, 10:33:42 PM »
Quote from: Chemus on July 22, 2008, 10:19:33 PM
I'm not familiar with Lasercats. They sound hard to wield...;)
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #77 on: July 22, 2008, 10:53:29 PM »
Fire-breathing bears are cooler...  :smirk
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #78 on: July 22, 2008, 11:17:24 PM »
Quote from: PhoenixInferno on July 22, 2008, 10:33:42 PM
Quote from: Chemus on July 22, 2008, 10:19:33 PM
I'm not familiar with Lasercats. They sound hard to wield...;)
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Aha! Those Lasercats. I've only seen flash photography of those. *cough*www.icanhascheezburger.com*cough*
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Re: Favorite Fictional Weapon
« Reply #79 on: July 22, 2008, 11:21:38 PM »
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