Re: Ancient Weapons and Hokey Religions
In reply to #3110 Ancient Weapons and Hokey Religions by Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson [email removed] writes: > > ... are no match for a blaster at your side. :=) Like I said, what TL is a light-sabre? Wait till you try to shoot someone and he parries your shot, then repeat that. :-) > I've never seen a good correlation for the rifle-carbine-pistol development > and TL, but then there wouldn't necessarily be one. Handguns and rifles > have historically (on Terra) evolved separately. Well, minor details such as how to get multiple shots may have evolved separately, but the important advances, i.e. how to get any shots, evolved pretty much in parallel. Matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, cartridge; all these appeared in longarms and pistols at around the same time, and certainly in the same sequence. (There were also wheellock pistols; I don't know if there were wheellock muskets, but the wheellock was an expensive and unreliable mechanism anyway, and was shortly replaced by the flintlock.) > So, is your blaster a revolver or a semi-auto? (full auto PGMP? WOW!) "I know what you're thinking. 'Did he fire 1000 shots, or only 999?' Well, to tell you the truth, in the excitement I kind of lost count myself. But bearing in mind that this is the Heckler-Colt, the most powerful PGMP in the galaxy, and is capable of blowing your office clean off the map, what you've got to ask yourself is 'Do I feel lucky?'. Well, do you?" :-> - -- "Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott Adrian Hurt | JANET: [email removed] UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!adrian | ARPA: [email removed]