The Picard Maneuver to Star Wars MemesEnglish • 2 months agoThis is outrageous! It's unfair!imagemessage-square21arrow-up1564arrow-down13
arrow-up1561arrow-down1imageThis is outrageous! It's unfair!The Picard Maneuver to Star Wars MemesEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square21
minus-square@EheranlinkEnglish5•2 months agoIs she not even pulling the trigger? Can someone stabilize on the finger?
minus-squareFuglyDucklinkEnglish13•edit-22 months agoIt’s a blaster. It blasts stuffs. What do you want, scientific accuracy in a space opera fantasy? Okay. Then lasers also have recoil… just different recoil.
minus-squareteftlinkEnglish13•2 months agoNot all blasters fire particle beams. Some fire plasma bolts that could conceivably give recoil. Also she is using the stun setting here. Maybe that gives extra kick.
minus-square@EheranlinkEnglish0•2 months agoGiven the low velocity of the projectile, it could at best shot twice before it’s mass is gone.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•2 months agoThat’s not a laser pistol. Star Wars blasters are plasma weapons. Brush up on your lore if you’re gonna nitpick.
minus-squaresynae[he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish4•2 months agoUh huh. And what about the people hit by the laser blasts getting knocked back, do you care about those?
minus-square@SpaceNoodlelinkEnglish1•2 months agoMomentum is conserved even if it’s perfectly coherent light
minus-squarethreelonmusketeerslinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoThat reminds me… someone needs to make a u/stabbot equivalent for Lemmy.
Is she not even pulling the trigger? Can someone stabilize on the finger?
Who cares
I care that a laser pistol has a recoil.
It’s a blaster.
It blasts stuffs. What do you want, scientific accuracy in a space opera fantasy?
Okay. Then lasers also have recoil… just different recoil.
Not all blasters fire particle beams. Some fire plasma bolts that could conceivably give recoil. Also she is using the stun setting here. Maybe that gives extra kick.
Given the low velocity of the projectile, it could at best shot twice before it’s mass is gone.
That’s not a laser pistol. Star Wars blasters are plasma weapons. Brush up on your lore if you’re gonna nitpick.
poser doofus
Uh huh. And what about the people hit by the laser blasts getting knocked back, do you care about those?
Momentum is conserved even if it’s perfectly coherent light
That sounds cromulent to me
That reminds me… someone needs to make a u/stabbot equivalent for Lemmy.