POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : I miss this : Re: I miss this Server Time
11 Oct 2024 21:20:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: I miss this  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 26 Oct 2007 05:36:44
Message: <4721b52c@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
>> You'd have to design any such gun to be recoilless somehow. 
> 
> Generally by firing something out the back at a similar momentum. Kind 
> of like the open back on a shoulder-launched rocket/bazooka thing.

That's the only method I've ever heard of, but I can't imagine it would 
work well for a hand-held relativistic projectile weapon! You'd end up 
standing at the cusp between two lobes of utter annihilation.


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