Anthony Appleyard opened this issue on Oct 13, 2009 · 13 posts
Anthony Appleyard posted Tue, 13 October 2009 at 11:08 AM
Building from Dystopia.
xantor posted Tue, 13 October 2009 at 11:30 AM
Great, the lasers in star wars use a bolt not a continuous beam, but that is just nitpicking.
flibbits posted Tue, 13 October 2009 at 2:09 PM
Officers usually don't do the dirty work in teams like that. It would be one officer with with five storm troopers.
WandW posted Tue, 13 October 2009 at 3:45 PM
Hmmm. Clone officers....
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"Oh - the manual says that? I have never read the manual - this must be why."xantor posted Tue, 13 October 2009 at 4:51 PM
Quote - Officers usually don't do the dirty work in teams like that. It would be one officer with with five storm troopers.
This could be a situation where no stormtroopers are available.
pakled posted Tue, 13 October 2009 at 4:58 PM
officers conceive the dirty work
sargents are ordered to make it happen
soldiers do the dirty work...;)
Hmm...now I gotta find that uniform....
I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit
anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)
Anthony Appleyard posted Wed, 14 October 2009 at 1:09 AM
Quote - Great, the lasers in star wars use a bolt not a continuous beam, but that is just nitpicking.
This is an example of the dilemma between an onlooker remembering closely consecutive related events as simultaneous, and photographic exactness, A text description, and an onlooker's member, would likely be "The squad fired as it advanced" or similar.
Similar was discussed in a book "How to draw comics the Marvel way" that I have: in it, a frame from the comic "Roy of the Rovers" (about a fictional football club) shows a goal being scored and spectators cheering, i.e. the way a spectator would likely remember the event; but a photograph of a real football goal being scored shows the spectators impassive, because the camera exposure was over before the spectators could show visible signs of reacting.
LostinSpaceman posted Wed, 14 October 2009 at 2:48 AM
Quote - Great, the lasers in star wars use a bolt not a continuous beam, but that is just nitpicking.
I was wondering why they were using water pistols myself.
xantor posted Wed, 14 October 2009 at 10:17 AM
Quote - > Quote - Great, the lasers in star wars use a bolt not a continuous beam, but that is just nitpicking.
I was wondering why they were using water pistols myself.
You could argue that a real laser pistol actually would have a continous beam.
SamTherapy posted Wed, 14 October 2009 at 10:55 AM
Quote - > Quote - > Quote - Great, the lasers in star wars use a bolt not a continuous beam, but that is just nitpicking.
I was wondering why they were using water pistols myself.
You could argue that a real laser pistol actually would have a continous beam.
You could also argue that a real laser pistol would most likely have a beam with the timing set by the user, from staggered pulses to continuous.
Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.
xantor posted Wed, 14 October 2009 at 3:30 PM
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You could also argue that a real laser pistol would most likely have a beam with the timing set by the user, from staggered pulses to continuous.
I didn`t think of that.
pakled posted Wed, 14 October 2009 at 6:58 PM
or that there are some people who substitute excessive knowledge of a given genre for a social life...woops...guilty...;)
I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit
anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)
dasquid posted Wed, 14 October 2009 at 7:00 PM
Actually if they were normal laser weapons the beams would actually connect from the gun to the target while they were firing because the mechanism would not be fast enough to shut off before the beam got far enough away to still be in the air after the firing mechanism shut off the beam power. Considering they move at the speed of light and all.