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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Angel Eyes on April 04, 2021, 05:46:06 PM
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The inspiration for this very silly poll:
https://gunmagwarehouse.com/blog/sci-fi-guns/
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"Other", because these are all TeeVee and movie guns. The best SF is written.
"Win Bear's .41 Magnum."
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PPG
But you forgot one for the list https://youtu.be/r-YjmXt15sg?t=22
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I went with the M41A. I like Vera, and it's firefly and all, but I've always thought the M41As were cool scifi weapons.
To each their own, but one of the disappointments to me in Babylon 5, one of my favorite scifi series, were both the pistol and rifle PPGs. They were just too dinky looking to me. Though in one scene, I think an alternate timeline flash-forward in War Without End, Garibaldi had a badass BFG.
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Original series STAR TREK PHASER. Back in the 60s I thought the phaser pistol was the coolest ray gun ever. It's still just as cool. The movie versions sometimes got close.
But the NEXT GENERATION "dustbuster" versions were horrid.
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M41A. Built on a Thompson M1A1 with a Remington 870 covered in SPAS furniture. It may not really fire "10mm explosive-tipped caseless" rounds or grenades but I'll take it for what it really was.
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You left out both Vera (Firefly) and Reason (Snow Crash).
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You left out both Vera (Firefly) and Reason (Snow Crash).
Vera is in the list
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No choice for a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range?
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Hey, just what you see; pal!
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Deckard's gun, because it just looked right. What else do you need in a movie gun?
Also, what about the Noisy Cricket?
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No choice for a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range?
This. Prowled comments to see had the good taste to also point out its absence. Well done, bedlamite.
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I'm surprised Han Solo's blaster isn't on the list.
I'm going to go with Mal's pistol, though.
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I'm surprised Han Solo's blaster isn't on the list.
The DL-44 Heavy Blaster *IS* on the list.
And it got my vote because the C-96 is the coolest handgun ever produced.
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Original series STAR TREK PHASER. Back in the 60s I thought the phaser pistol was the coolest ray gun ever. It's still just as cool. The movie versions sometimes got close.
But the NEXT GENERATION "dustbuster" versions were horrid.
I used to always wonder if the next gen phasers were created as part of an anti-gun agenda. =)
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Original series STAR TREK PHASER. Back in the 60s I thought the phaser pistol was the coolest ray gun ever. It's still just as cool. The movie versions sometimes got close.
But the NEXT GENERATION "dustbuster" versions were horrid.
I used to always wonder if the next gen phasers were created as part of an anti-gun agenda. =)
Actually they start to make sense IMHO if you think about it when you consider they have zero recoil, no moving parts, and there's no need for any sort of magazine just a power pact and give easy access to a control panel
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I went with Vera mostly for sentimental reasons.
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I went with Vera mostly for sentimental reasons.
Pretty much the same here.
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I kind of like the "blasters" from Forbidden Planet. In particular, the "cannon" blasters - instead of one barrel, there are four emitters in a square pattern. In the movie, the blaster pistol disintegrated a tiger, so they're not popguns.
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2Fimages%2Fg%2F5N8AAOSwnHZYf9~e%2Fs-l300.jpg&f=1&nofb=1)
Then there's this raygun infomercial (poor horsey at 1:20): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysYsFqwSJ7k&ab_channel=WetaWorkshop
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I kind of like the "blasters" from Forbidden Planet. In particular, the "cannon" blasters - instead of one barrel, there are four emitters in a square pattern. In the movie, the blaster pistol disintegrated a tiger, so they're not popguns.
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2Fimages%2Fg%2F5N8AAOSwnHZYf9~e%2Fs-l300.jpg&f=1&nofb=1)
Then there's this raygun infomercial (poor horsey at 1:20): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysYsFqwSJ7k&ab_channel=WetaWorkshop
That's why phasers were superior. The legs would be ionized too. [popcorn]
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I invented the .11 UHV ("Ultra High Velocity") for a story. Its tiny tracer bullet would zoom out at UHV with no loss of V until it reached 100 yards, then it would stop and drop straight to the ground.
It deployed a tiny little parachute when the tracer material burned out.
Unfortunately, it got banned in New Jersey, Maryland, Ilinois, New York, California, and Hawaii, so the market evaporated and that was that.
For more detailed information, you can look up the patent or see the Wiki article.
Terry, 230RN
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I just noticed there is no plasma rifle (Terminator).
I always liked the Power Guns from David Drake's Hammer's Slammers.
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I just noticed there is no plasma rifle (Terminator).
I always liked the Power Guns from David Drake's Hammer's Slammers.
The guns in Harry Harrison's Deathworld trilogy were pretty cool, too - attached to the wearer's wrist, when the gun sensed the hand was ready to receive it, a servo pushed it into the wearer's grasp - fast. An inexperienced user would find his fingers being bruised as the gun smashed them out of the way, an experienced user would curl his trigger finger just a bit so the gun fired as soon as it was in position. Made for an incredibly fast "draw."
"Win Bear's .41 Magnum."
I kind of liked Win's friend's Webley-Electric and other hypervelocity mass-driver weapons from 0.11 to 0.17 caliber. IIRC, in one of the sequels, his daughter's guns apparently took small caliber high velocity weaponry to the next level, with 250,000 ft. lbs of muzzle energy. At that velocity you wouldn't need a tracer - that little grain would be moving as fast as a meteor and would leave its own trail of ionization in the air.
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How about the bazookoid?
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No choice for a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range?
Exactly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4pbYsRl8Wk
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Cane Venator's fission pistol.
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Added two choices (Mal Reynolds' pistol and the Terminator's phased plasma rifle).
Anybody know how to allow voters to change their votes? Maybe I should ask the DNC.
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Added two choices (Mal Reynolds' pistol and the Terminator's phased plasma rifle).
Anybody know how to allow voters to change their votes? Maybe I should ask the DNC.
That last will only help you add more votes.
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From a favorite comedy. These are really good blasters. Mars Attacks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGTRdpW8oZA
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From a favorite comedy. These are really good blasters. Mars Attacks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGTRdpW8oZA
I love the old lady laughing. "They blew up Congress! Ha! Ha! Ha!" :lol:
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The M41A, because it was a great gun in a great movie. Could have used an optic, but those weren't that common when Aliens was made.
Two others, not on the approved list...
The Bergman adapted for use by The Mandalorian. Looks great on screen.
The pistol used in the first season of Battlestar Galactica, the Smith L-frame modded with a shell. Love that you could spot a Hogue or Pachmayr grip from time to time.
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Cane Venator's fission pistol.
It's just a Thompson/Center Contender frame. Finding the barrel is the hard part. :P
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I voted the M41 Pulse Rifle as well.
Although when Yugo M53 kits with intact barrels were only $300, and surplus 8mm Mauser was about the cheapest centerfire ammo you could find, I was sorely tempted to get a cheap eBay stedicam arm and harness and try and make a m56 Smartgun replica.
However, the machining and metalwork needed to make a semi-auto build out of the Yugo kit was and still is way beyond my abilities. So I passed.
Still should have bought the Yugo kit. I could have flipped it for major profit in just a few scant years. =|
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What is a Cane Venator? Web search did not uncover anything helpful.
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It's a single-shot, breech-loading pistol resembling a Thompson/Center Contender that uses a fission reaction to convert a rod of uranium into high-velocity plasma, that may or may not exist entirely in my own mind.
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And reality meets science fiction . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_XX2lIT1tQ
(It MUST be real - I found it on the Internet!)