>Xotor, I just felt like arguing.
>
>
>We all have to remember that
>the Fallout series takes place
>let's say some 50-100 years
>in the future. Doesn't sound
>like much compared to other
>sci-fi novels and movies etc.,
>but think of all that's
>been done in the last
>decade alone. I'm saying this,
>because maybe sometime in the
>future, the following may have
>happened:
>
>a) development of a lighter/stronger metal
>
>b) development of a lighter/slower minigun
>(one that doesn't fire 60
>rounds a second)
A counter to that point:
What, then, is the purpose of so many barrels on the minigun then? If you're not firing the gun so fast that the barrels overheat you might as well get yourself a Tek-9 or something, it sure is a hell of a lot lighter.
The *only* points of multibarrel use are to disappate heat and prevent barrel corrosion. The only way these two things occur is if you are firing at extreme rates.
>I'm sure some of you are
>thinking "how could we find
>a new metal in fifty
>years?". A scientist/researcher/whatever-you-want-to-call-him recently won
>a Nobel prize for discovering
>a polymer/physics-thingy that is, in
>essence, a replacement for steel.
>It's lighter (far far lighter),
>stronger, and easier to produce.
>However, they are still working
>on how to make the
>polymer/etc., err, align itself, if
>you will, to form a
>sheet, not a blob, of
>this metal. I've forgotten the
>name of the metal and
>it's creator, but I'll let
>you know when I find
>it.
But that is not metal, that's a polymer compound. The truth is that you can create EXTREMELY strong structures simply by honey-combing titanium. However how well this dissipates heat is another issue. Also, the motor used to power the gun is quite heavy. I assume that your "metal" does not form good magnets?
>As for a personal minigun never
>existing, there must have been
>some sort of prototype of
>some sort, or else how
>could you explain all of
>it's references in movies/games/tv series/etc?
That all originated with Wolfenstein 3D where the top gun was a gattling gun. They wanted a gun that fired faster than a machine gun.
However go and scour the internet, there are *no* personal miniguns outside of games and movies. I have searched for them, they do *not* exist.
Put in a search for "personal minigun" and a whole hell of a lot of them will be Fallout links, and the rest, FPS games.
You know the helicopter gun in the Matrix? That's the average size of a minigun, and they fire about the same speed.
>I also have an amazing picture
>of a real-life handheld minigun,
>but it's too large to
>upload to the server (75kb).
I'll have to see it. I mean, yeah, and they have 0.5 caliber browning round pistols (ammo that goes into 2km range sniper rifles) too, but it isn't like they're of any real use.
-Xotor-
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Matches that description for the most part.