• @[email protected]
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    33 days ago

    Your fallout experience also tells you lasers have recoil, so I wouldn’t place any value in that.

    • @[email protected]
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      43 days ago

      Sure lasers don’t have recoil, but I see no reason a laser gun can’t have recoil.

      Anything from flywheel energy storage, a lasing medium compressed by pistons, massive magnetic fields created by high currents, who knows what’s inside that thing.

      A handheld laser gun has to generate a beam of such unrealistic intensity that I’d be surprised if the power stage didn’t buck in some manner.

    • @roguetrick
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      33 days ago

      Well, technically they do. Just they have about as much recoil as your flashlight does.

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        Yeah all the mass of the photons being propelled out has a real kick. /sarcasm

        No offence to you, at all, but the fact that your comment is a 3:1 ratio makes me sad for the future of humanity.

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          -23 days ago

          Oh I’m just a general asshole and some folks realize it enough to downvote me. Pay it no mind.