Posted by SumitonJD on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Can-some-body-tell-me-tp1504157p1504166.html

Okay, here we go again of the explaination why the Alien have smallarms that
fires projectile when their spacecraft has a engery type weapon.

It takes a lot of power to make a laser work. You may or may not remember
that one of the ideas to make the so called "Star Wars" defense system work was
to fire lasers into space from Earth by setting off nuclear weapons to
provide the power for the beam. Now that is a lot of engery. The new laser they
have been testing that is taken up in a Boeing(hey Marc a plug<g>) 727 type
aircraft uses a more conventional power supply, batteries. But they take up most
of the plane. Now while the aliens have got the power suppy right for the UFO
to use a laser type weapon getting the power supply small enough and long
lasting enough to make a hand weapon is long jump in technology. And why do the
aliens have to have beam type hand weapons just because they travel in space
and have one on their ship? In Enterprise the crew have only a few
fuctioning Phasers. This is a newly created weapon to them although they have been
traveling in space for quite some time. In UFO the aliens supposedly come from a
planet that is dying perhaps they see no reason to waste resources on making
a laser type weapon when a old fashion bullet will get the job done cheaper.

Oh, Griff, the recoil would not knock Foster back 30 feet. You said
it yourself. the Moon only has one sixth our gravity. If it would knock him
back 30 feet on the moon it would knock him back 5 on Earth. Recoil is figured
by the weight of the projectile times the velocity of the projectile times
4000, then you have to find the weigh of the weapon times the mass of gravity
acceleration which is always 32 feet per second even on the moon then divide
the two . And in the case of the moon you have to reduce the weight of the
bullet, and the gun by 6. Just do it regular and then divide the result by 6.
In other words a gun that like the .460 Weatherby Magnum which produces 100
foot pounds of recoil on Earth would not produce 600 on the moon but only 16.7
foot pounds of recoil. But as the person firing it would now only weigh one
sixth of their Earth weight the effect would be the same.

James K.


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