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PvK · #1 October 31st, 2003, 02:49 AM

Without knowing how the weapon is set up, it's hard to say, but from a Newtonian perspective, sure you have have a "jerk" from something that doesn't release anything. Try putting an energetic cat or dog (or yourself) in a box. An animate object in a box can shift its weight around in the box and make it hard to hold the box still. If it tries to run or jump inside the box, the box will jerk one way and then (when it stops/lands/hits the wall) the other direction. Net force may total zero, but it will move around. A clever animate object can even roll and jerk and get itself to move around using friction, rotation, and/or gravity, without leaving the box.

PvK

Suicide Junkie · #2 October 31st, 2003, 04:29 AM

Definitely, you'd need to be in a laboratory setting to detect the photon recoil.

And, as for the internal jerking around, have you ever played a shooting game in an arcade? Just about all the guns in there have solenoids and such to simulate some kickback and let you know you fired.

Cyrien · #3 October 31st, 2003, 05:04 AM

For those of you who like conspiracy theories might get a kick outa this. I would take it with a grain of salt though. But who knows eh?

http://www.serendipity.li/wot/bollyn1.htm

Narf the image on the CBS page is not CG. I have seen the same image in many other places of much higher quality and have seen an actual video demonstrating that. (Couldn't find a place where the video is available Online. Sorry. The video clip I saw of it was on the History Channel, a show about future combat hardware I believe.)

As to the size. You are only seeing the top part that targets and fires the laser. Not the power sources etc. The whole laser is actually much larger than shown in the picture. In fact those soldiers are standing on it.

narf poit chez BOOM · #4 October 31st, 2003, 05:08 AM

ok, that explains it. i just have this faint paranoa about fake news.

can anyone verify that link from other news sources?

[ October 31, 2003, 03:14: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

Cyrien · #5 October 31st, 2003, 05:33 AM

Which one? Too many links in this topic...

The old CBS one or the one I just posted?

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 October 31st, 2003, 05:57 AM

the one you just posted. should have specified.

Cyrien · #7 October 31st, 2003, 06:38 AM

Hrmm... I have found the exact same article word for word in several other locations but none of them are what I would consider reputable. More like the internet Versions of National Inquirer. So... independent verification of anything they mention... no can do. Outa curiosity I tried to find info on the Soviet - Chinese conflict over the river they mention at one point in the article where the Soviets in the 1960's used a laser weapon to blow up a Chinese wall or some such. I can verify the conflict but nothing about laser weapons or any special wall that was blown up.

I haven't tried to check up on anything else in it so far though.