Let's talk about Vera
POSTED BY: Zicsoft
UPDATED: Thursday, October 10, 2002 22:15
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What I want to know is--what off Earth was used to break up the planetoid that the bad guys were using as a camera mount? And who did it? If that was the Alliance's way of persuading people to fall into line, I'm going to have to revise my opinion of the bureaucracy.
Inside every cynic there's an idealist desperately yearning to be let out, and when they are let out they're usually a real pain and cause all sorts of trouble. --Chris Boucher
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Originally posted by loonytoon:
Smokeless powder IS merely a flammable powder, it needs a enclosed space to fire.
More specifically. It needs to be properly ignited, by a proper primer, under controlled conditions, 40,000 Copper Units of Pressure in some cases, to accelerate the projectile down a rifled barrel.
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Plus, vera appears to be gas operated, I wonder if it could generate enough pressure to cycle in space. I think recoil would be ammplified in zero-g.
The recoil wouldn't be "amplified" it just wouldn't be modified by having ones boots pressing against the surface at normal weight. It would be a pure mass ratio system. If Jayne had not been braced he would have moved the opposit direction from the path of the projectile, with equal impulse. "Is there a physicist in the house?"
Jeff
Who is too damn far from Fenn College.
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You said what I meant, just a little more detailed. Recoil wouldn`t be amplified, but it would seem such when you go zipping across the room!
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Originally posted by RexRaygun:
Agreed! And the guy never even looked down the sights, managed to take out the array and put five rounds through the window, even though Mal told him it wasn't a priority. I guess Jayne felt it was.
Ammo is only good if you USE it. If long exposure to vacuum would make the ammo unreliable then expending it instead of throwing it away is the most efficient use of resources. "I couldn't detect the target, so I left my bombs on Berlin." Unknown A/C Commander RAF Bomber command, early WWII.
Jeff
Who notes you tailor your ammo load to the mission profile. Cross reference: 'No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.'
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