when did serenity get weapons???
POSTED BY: wytchcroft
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 17:55
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sorry, I meant OMR, not Safe. Still can't find the commentary.
Dunno if it is sleep deprivation or just thelack of a commentary but I swear I remember hearing joss (or at least someone) talk about that somewhere!
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Originally posted by nvghostrider:
Okay, I forgot being able to fire a weapon under water. (Yeah, I'm too lazy to check out the links but oh well, you're right, I'm wrong. You're the the best golfer, I'm the worst. You are extremely attractive and me, not so much.)
No need to feel dumb. I just knew something you didn't. I'm sure you know things I don't as well. Besides the whole needing oxygen to fire thing is a common misconception.
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So yeah, the scary part is that the projectile fired in outerspace will never lose its momentum or trajectory unless influenced by an outside force. So if Serenity were to make a quick run in the same direction Jayne fired and suddenly stopped for some reason than Jayne might have actually shot Serenity on accident?
Vaguely possible. Of course at the kinds of speeds that spaceships travel at any random bit of junk that falls off a ship is a potential hazard in that regard.
David
'Geeks can't admit that anything worthwhile was invented before 1981. Soon, "making cocoa" will be called "milk hacking."' - Lore Sjoberg
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There were a few threads on the "O2 or Not O2" question some time back. The eventual consensus was that you really don't need atmo to use a firearm, but, unless the weapon in question was designed to function in the extreme conditions of space, you'd probably damage it badly after only a few rounds. For example, you could expect exposure to hard vacuum to cause boil-off of any lubricants, and probably screw up various seals due to loss of volitiles.
So while the exact reason why Vera had to get dressed up was wrong, Jayne was right to be protective of his best girl.
"She's tore up plenty. But she'll fly true." -- Zoë Washburn
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Imagine sitting somewhere on the otherside and you get asked how you bought it.
"So, how'd you die?"
"We flew through someones dumped sewage at light speed and were disintergrated by someones s#!$."
How bad would that suck? 
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Originally posted by RocketJock:
So while the exact reason why Vera had to get dressed up was wrong, Jayne was right to be protective of his best girl.
That I accept.
David
'Geeks can't admit that anything worthwhile was invented before 1981. Soon, "making cocoa" will be called "milk hacking."' - Lore Sjoberg
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wow - what an interesting, educational and sleep deprived thread!:)
love the confused middle:)
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I'll just agree with everyone, cause I have NO knowledge about guns. All I know is you put bullets in somehow and then aim one end at the guy you want to shoot. (those things are called bullets, right?)
I've always assumed that this is a shiny futuristic gun, it needs oxygen to be its super-shiny self
And, daveshayne, your punctuation on your quote is a little off. It should be:
"Geeks can't admit that anything worthwhile was invented before 1981. Soon, 'making cocoa' will be called 'milk hacking.'" - Lore Sjoberg
Not trying to be rude or anything, just trying to help
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Originally posted by RiverFlan:
And, daveshayne, your punctuation on your quote is a little off. It should be:
"Geeks can't admit that anything worthwhile was invented before 1981. Soon, 'making cocoa' will be called 'milk hacking.'" - Lore Sjoberg
Well the original quote has the double quotes around making cocoa and milk hacking to represent air quotes. In order to preserve the proper text representation of air quotes I had to resort to single quotes to enclose the quote as a whole or risk confusing people about the extent and nestingness of my quote. Plus all due respect to those who worship at the alter of the MLA and University of Chicago but I've got my very own style manual. Right here.
David
'Geeks can't admit that anything worthwhile was invented before 1981. Soon, "making cocoa" will be called "milk hacking."' - Lore Sjoberg
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My guess is the temperature. As the temperature drops the grease used in automatic weapons freeze and jams the weapon. This was common in the Korean War. Or the zero atmosphere causes the grease to evaporate and again the weapon jams.
After Jayne fires the first round it would not take long before the atmosphere escapes. Were talking milliseconds here. But the gun may retain heat from the first round and keep the grease soft.
As Jayne would say "A lot of ifs".
Another question to ponder is how did Jayne aim Vera? He could not look down the sights with her wraped up in that suit. He really was a expert with weapons to pull that off.
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
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