Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 year agoSci-fi dorks don't want you to know this, but pump action shotguns will still be used because they don't care about different alien atmospheres, and are less likely to puncture a ships hull.message-squaremessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up156arrow-down10
arrow-up156arrow-down1message-squareSci-fi dorks don't want you to know this, but pump action shotguns will still be used because they don't care about different alien atmospheres, and are less likely to puncture a ships hull.Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square16linkfedilink
minus-squareYurt_Owl@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoWhat about different gravity would that cause guns to fail? Americans go to the moon and don’t even test any guns smh my head
minus-squareAbracadaniel [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoIf a gun can fire upside down it can fire in a zero g environment.
minus-squareYurt_Owl@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoWhat if there’s more g’s, enough g so the firing system can’t eject the shell or go back far enough
minus-squareOhHiMarx@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoIf the g is so high that it can’t eject, chances are you can’t lift the gun anyway.
minus-squareLENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]@hexbear.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoa pump shotgun no, but potentially some gas operated systems? i’m not really sure how gravity/vacuum would affect any recoil operating system like that.
What about different gravity would that cause guns to fail? Americans go to the moon and don’t even test any guns smh my head
If a gun can fire upside down it can fire in a zero g environment.
What if there’s more g’s, enough g so the firing system can’t eject the shell or go back far enough
If the g is so high that it can’t eject, chances are you can’t lift the gun anyway.
a pump shotgun no, but potentially some gas operated systems? i’m not really sure how gravity/vacuum would affect any recoil operating system like that.