• @[email protected]
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    27 days ago

    Gunpowder is self oxidizing when ignited. As long as they used a non-evaporating lubricant on the actual mechanical components like graphite, and included a barrel liquid cooling loop, the M2 would operate totally fine in space.

    • @Telodzrum
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      427 days ago

      What about barrel cooling? Getting rid of heat is a major challenge in a vacuum.

      • @[email protected]
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        2327 days ago

        That’s why I say you need to provide a closed liquid coolant loop around the barrel that would ve integrated with your ship’s heat management system, to replace the air cooling of the barrel.

        • nukeM
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          1027 days ago

          you need to provide a closed liquid coolant

          Will the blood of my enemies suffice?

        • switchboard_pete
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          027 days ago

          no because without gravity to pull them back down your bullets would just keep going up and up and over whatever you’re trying to hit

          • borari
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            626 days ago

            Bullets don’t inherently go up when fired, they go straight out of the barrel, the barrel is just inclined because of the sight alignment. You just realign the sights, this isn’t a difficult problem.

            • switchboard_pete
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              -326 days ago

              Bullets don’t inherently go up when fired

              yeah because of gravity

              get rid of all the gravity and they’ll go straight up

                • switchboard_pete
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                  326 days ago

                  don’t come crying to me when your bullets go up so much they do a full loopdeloop and shoot you in the back of your head because you tried to fire them on the moon where there’s no gravity

              • @[email protected]
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                125 days ago

                But actually, if you had no gravity acting to change the velocity vector, the bullet would continue in a straight line. If you shot at the horizon it would be like drawing a straight line tangent to a circle. The bullet’s not going to end up going in the shooters azimuthal direction, but it sure is going to gain altitude as the curvature of the body peels down way away from the straight line it’s flying,

          • @Glemek
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            426 days ago

            I bet all of them make a loud wooshing noise as they head straight up from the moon to earth.

    • Cethin
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      125 days ago

      A closed loop wouldn’t work probably. You’d need an open loop, or a shit ton of radiators. I guess potentially it could couple to the ground and sink heat into it, but you’d need to be stationary.