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Thanks very much for the quote. Very interesting, indeed.

Pesumably, this means that lasguns bolts are a coherant beam of light from gun to target?

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Hunchback Jack wrote:Thanks very much for the quote. Very interesting, indeed.

Pesumably, this means that lasguns bolts are a coherant beam of light from gun to target?

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Hunchback Jack wrote:Thanks very much for the quote. Very interesting, indeed.

Pesumably, this means that lasguns bolts are a coherant beam of light from gun to target?

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Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but what's the other option for a laser?
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A Thing of Eternity wrote:
Hunchback Jack wrote:Thanks very much for the quote. Very interesting, indeed.

Pesumably, this means that lasguns bolts are a coherant beam of light from gun to target?

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Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but what's the other option for a laser?
A bolt, like in SW?
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A Thing of Eternity wrote:
Hunchback Jack wrote:Thanks very much for the quote. Very interesting, indeed.

Pesumably, this means that lasguns bolts are a coherant beam of light from gun to target?

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Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but what's the other option for a laser?
Short bursts. He means, a continuous beam with no break or interruption until the trigger (or whatever) is released. Like a firehose.
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Freakzilla wrote:
A Thing of Eternity wrote:
Hunchback Jack wrote:Thanks very much for the quote. Very interesting, indeed.

Pesumably, this means that lasguns bolts are a coherant beam of light from gun to target?

HBJ
Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but what's the other option for a laser?
A bolt, like in SW?
Oh... a light bolt traveling slower than light? Not very SF for my tastes, but then again, I barely even consider SW SF.

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Tleilax Master B wrote:
A Thing of Eternity wrote:
Hunchback Jack wrote:Thanks very much for the quote. Very interesting, indeed.

Pesumably, this means that lasguns bolts are a coherant beam of light from gun to target?

HBJ
Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but what's the other option for a laser?
Short bursts. He means, a continuous beam with no break or interruption until the trigger (or whatever) is released. Like a firehose.
Oh. Even if it was just a really short burst there would still be a coherant beam back to the gun unless it was very, very short, or the target was very, very distant.

I get it now though. :D
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Just like modern military rifles, I'm sure you could choose the length of the burn the way you can choose between full auto/burst or semi-auto.
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A Thing of Eternity wrote:Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but what's the other option for a laser?
Actually, lasers are coherent by definition.

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Phaedrus wrote:
A Thing of Eternity wrote:Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but what's the other option for a laser?
Actually, lasers are coherent by definition.

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Yeah, sorry, I meant a continuous beam of light, as opposed to star-wars-like bolts of light that separate from the gun before hitting the target.

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Freak, I don't think you could make a short enough burst that'll end and clear the gun before hitting the target in a system that shoots laser beams(speed of light and all) unless used in great distances, surely not the typical sub/light-MG ranges that lasguns seem to be used at.
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The target would have to be over 300,000 km away (about 80% of the distance from the Earth to the Moon) and the burst duration (much?) less than 1000 milliseconds to see something like the SW or other show/movie energy weapon bolt effect (if then?).

As Orald points out, that's WAY farther than the interactions we have descriptions of, so...

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You'd also need a much more focused laser.

(Not very scientific terminology, but I've been learning computer stuffs all day, don't hate.)
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