Contrary to what we have learned from movies, a laser is not capable of firing bursts somehow decelerated to the speed of a sniper round. It simply fires, at the speed of light. It's on or it's off.

Imagine the battlefield accidents that would occur. Accidentally discharge one into the air and cut a passing passenger plane in half. Get a bit excited in a firefight and sweep through a firing arc, cutting EVERYTHING in half including your team. What if the trigger got stuck down? Could it drill to the center of the earth?

Laser guns = stupid idea.

PS. Feel free to move to the corner where I will summarily have the living piss ripped out of me.

 

can i have some of what you're smoking?

 

Alas, I have only a little left.

 

man this forum is getting lame.

 

That's a bit harsh man, come on...it's a genuine philosophical observation of popular sci-fi culture. People generally believe that one day we would have laser guns, a logical assumption the way technology moves, and such a weapon would be potent indeed, however silly, as I pointed out.

 

Wouldn't one be able to assume, that in Sci-Fi, they've made up some kind of shield within this "Laser Gun" that opens and closes upon trigger release and is able to manipulate the laser into controlled bursts?

 

Now you're talking. How would this work?

Perhaps some kind of subspace bubble in which the laws of physics are altered?

Though unfortunately, it wouldn't really be a laser gun then, more like a bubble gun. Doesn't sound very threatening.

 

 

Yes, but what about a giant "LASER"?





Mini-me stop humping the laser.

 

but but but......

Why is it that they can use a frickin' "laser" to do surgery without cutting a hole at all?

...I'm so confused. Beam me up, Scotty.