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How would you fare in a zombie apocalypse!; An old topic revived!
Topic Started: Nov 14 2013, 06:37 PM (1,382 Views)
Reynard
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Its a skill you pick up. First its rubber band guns, then suddenly, BOOM! You have a silent, relatively compact sized cannon that can drive a pile through a bloody car.

Its worth it to pick up, because then everything you see becomes a new tool, a new thing you can use
to jury rig that awesome flamethrower you were thinking of making. Everything becomes useful, and slowly
you can learn how to fix about anything, then you learn more about electronics, and how to rewire analog
devices to do what you want. You're a goddamn inventor, and thats useful anytime, anywhere.
 
wat
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Walrus.
Oh I already make my damn own inventions.
 
Deceleration
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Coreling Conquerer

So you can make magnetic guns that have comparable fire rate and muzzle velocity to a conventional firearm, while being around the same size and weight (power supply included)? If that is the case, then I would certaintly agree with you. Otherwise, no.

Also, acid sprayers seem to be potentially dangerous to manufacture and reload. Not to mention that it would take some time for the acid to dissolve a zombie's muscles and incapacitate it.
 
Reynard
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Yes, actually. I'd say we both know each other well enough to understand that both of us are not daft, as much as i respect your opinion, i must tell you technology is very versatile if used properly. Railguns can have fire-rates of up to that of semi automatic handguns, while being as powerful as 10mm-12.7 mm rounds. Depending on charge capacity, wire gauge, power of battery, and several other more desgin based components. These weapons are not only versatile, resourceful, but best of all, silent. I cannot stress that enough. The videos you see on youtube with all those plink plank shooty guns, those are like water guns compared to actual, tested, and properly built MA weapons.

If you look into hardware forums and the like, you can see many different actual types of MA weapons that would
excel in areas the standard rifle would not.

My point is that MA weapons are highly efficient, and very deadly. Not as deadly as laser weapons technology, which
by the way is a very real thing, but very deadly indeed.
 
Reynard
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Here, let me list the general perks of these weapons.

- Usually made of extremely lightweight materials, and common items.

Rifles and the like weigh much more than MA weapons due to the fact
they are based on explosively propelled projectiles, and thus must compensate
for not only recoil, but overheat, internal hammer mechanisms, and all
those other high maintainence parts.

MA weapons are basically made of a few things:

- A barrel.
- Battery holders
- Wire ( Ex. 12 Gauge Copper Wire)
- Handle

Excluding wiring, which is as simple as a switch circuit (Repeating circuit if you want full auto)
The thing that would take up the most weight will be the material needed
to shape the handle.


- MA weapons eliminate conventional problems of firearms

MA weapons have no muzzle flash, no bangs, no recoil, and no need for heavy
maintenance or cleaning. The maintenance goes as far as changing the batteries.
Ammo isn't as restrictive, anything metal that fits can be shot. Plus, if (as mentioned before)
you make a modification that sets the metal to simply propell the item in front of it,
then ANYTHING that fits in the barrel can be used.

- Ease of use, and replacement

Anyone with the knowledge of how to make a MA weapon
likely already has everything they need, and ever will need.
Unlike rifles, barrels can be just about anything. Rifle barrels
need to be specially made, due to the rifiling down the barrel.
Rifles need specific parts, and need regular maintenance.
Cleaning and the like is a regular thing.

These are just some of the many perks that are offered by these
weapons to those who know how to make them. Seriously, try
it for yourself. The more you know right?
 
Deceleration
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Coreling Conquerer

...Then why the hell does anyone use conventional firearms anymore?
 
Reynard
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Look, you're just being difficult here.
When someone starts funding this for public use,
then we can talk about why people don't use them.
Until then, I can't say anything else. I cannot respect
a man who refuses to admit that there are alternatives.

A few hundred years ago, someone might ask me why
the hell people still used muskets, or rifles, in favor of
the more undeveloped and unproduced machineguns of
the time.

A few years ago, someone might ask me why the hell
people still bothered using surface to air missiles,
instead of the already developed surface to air laser
defense system.

The question is, how xenophobic are people willing
to be.

Technology will advance, weaponry will advance. This
is nothing new to any of us.

EDIT: Fixed "fit of rage" spelling mistakes. : P
Edited by Reynard, Dec 18 2013, 06:44 AM.
 
Reynard
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Also, i may not be able to freely respond due to having my internet going mad as i mess around with it.
 
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Coreling Conquerer

I am perfectly willing to admit alternatives, I think you misunderstand me.

Also, the first machineguns were hardly portable- the first Gatling gun weighed 600 pounds and had to be mounted like a cannon. The Maxim machine gun was like a turret, complete with a mount and a seat, because the barrel had to be surrounded by water to keep it cool. It was not until machineguns could be moved quickly, and by one person who was not obscenely strong, that they became widely used. We also use surface-to-air missiles because atmspheric scattering drastically weakens lasers used at low altitudes, and lasers are awfully inefficient (at best, they convert less than 1% of electricity into an actual beam). New technologies don't get used widely until they have advanced to where they are better than current ones.
 
Reynard
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Perhaps I am, I just feel you're being a little tough on the idea of MA weapons.
These things haven't been fully researched to the capacity of that of the standard
firearm. Laser technology is not yet completely efficient, but its very powerful in its
current form nonetheless, and when i spoke of machine guns, I meant mechanized
machineguns, not those of the gatlin gun, which may as well have been a bunch of
pistols tied together.

In any case, i'm sure you understand the point I was trying to make by what I said.
 
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