Laser guns? Or not.

POSTED BY: Cosmoline
UPDATED: Thursday, August 25, 2005 04:32
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Originally posted by ReaverInA1985Riviera:
The laser gun Rance had just didn't have enough wattage to cut through the wall, if he hooked it up it the hovercraft's battery, he could probably cut straight through a ship.

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Speaking hypothetically that's mostly correct. More power would equal a more powerful laser as long as the laser could withstand so much power. It would also need to be a bigger laser though to cut through a ship or a handheld one pointed at it for a very long time. (We should assume there would be advances in armor also.) Otherwise the ships in science fiction stories would have lots of little handheld lasers mounted all over them and cut a path of destruction. Instead, they have fewer, much larger lasers to cut through ships.

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