No wrong answers. (there IS a right answer though)

  • partial_accumen
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    15 hours ago

    Stargate wouldn’t be C4, it would be a Zat’nik’tel.

    • one shot stuns
    • two shots kill
    • three shots vaporizes

    Full credit to Shanks for asking the important questions how badly designed a plot device it is. “How long between shots does it reset on the same target?”

    • illi@piefed.social
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      1 hour ago

      Just the stun is funny hownit works - sometimes it takes out people for hours, sometime they are good to ho pretty much right after.

    • Waldelfe@feddit.org
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      1 hour ago

      I mean to be fair it was not “designed” at all. They needed to get a body out of the way in one episode and didn’t have time to rewrite/reshoot so one of the writers was just like “Well, the body just gets shot again and disintegrates…”

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          11 hours ago

          I love that the p90 was literally designed to be the opposite. it was supposed to be issued to truck drivers and other support type personnel (and close quarters peace time antiterrorism type stuff).

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            3 hours ago

            IIRC the 5.7mm was purpose designed to punch through paratrooper body armor. It absolutely is a weapon of war.

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      12 hours ago

      No don’t worry about that!

    • laranis@lemmy.zip
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      12 hours ago

      I always assumed it was like dosing medication - depends on the person’s weight and age.

    • RampantParanoia2365
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      12 hours ago

      It’s an electric current. So it would be as long as the charge is still present. If it wears off, it resets