It's not actually possible to "shoot electricity" is it?
Shit like Pokemon, Digimon, Zatch Bell and probably other games I'm not thinking of always made me think this was normal, I never really thought about until now. I never questioned it. This isn't a thing at all. How could you even aim a blast of electricity? You couldn't make an electricity cannon out of metal because it would just stay inside the metal electricity cannon right? Should I ask /sci/ about this?
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It isn't?! Then how would you explain the clouds shooting Electricity?! GTFO of here you cuck
well if you presumably had some kind of power that let you conduct electricity through the air, kinda like Mustang's pyromancy from FMA, then yes
it would be physically exhausting and might even kill you
>hurrrrr what are tazers?
Yes it is?
You just target a conductive point on someone, like a button on a shirt and conduct it through the atmosphere through yourself into it?
Just wear some grounding shoes and that's it.
There's been minimal success directing electricity with lasers to make sort of a lightning gun but a living creature firing lasers is even more of a stretch.
Who said it's electricity?
Just heat energy that looks like elctricity.
You would need something that channels it into being fired as a beam. will it look like beam electricity in anime no, but you can "shoot electricity" if you have a catalyst and a conduit
uh theres some big youtube science nerd man guy who goes around the world to find big gay nerd shit to sperg out about and im pretty sure i saw thumbnails for "OMG I FIRED A REAL LIFE TESLA GUN?!?" i will go find the video for you
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>How could you even aim a blast of electricity
You don't
this was the guy i think
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Maybe it's more telekinetically changing the charge of the target, so a bolt is created from the positive charge in your hand?
Same bullshit as "shooting cold", since cold isn't really a thing, it's just absence of heat. Unless you're shooting a cold medium (liquid nitrogen or something), you can't actually "shoot cold"
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It's completely impossible.
However: shooting ice beams which freeze on contact, songs that put anything that hear them to sleep, etc. all that stuff holds up when analyzed scientifically
hit me up with one of those songs, i have trouble sleeping
Electricity is just the electromagnetic force in such concentration as to be visible. Magnetism if you could see it, is actually a cloud. You know how when you see a depiction of the Earth's magnetic field or if you sprinkle ferromagnetic dust over a magnet you always see lines? The lines show you the space between the clouds where the forces are at their weakest but they're still present even there. In other words, electricity isn't some ray. If you're gonna be electrocuted it's because you're within range of the cloud and not grounded like the source.
Also, on topic there's a good fight scene in Aldnoah Zero, but it's in the second season. I recommend watching season 1 to avoid massive spoilers but if you can't help it and just want pew pew then jump to 1:20
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It is in theory. You just need a lot of potential (think hundreds of thousands of volts) and a path to ground. Directing that towards a specific target reliably is the hard part though.
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sorta
electricity isnt a substance like common media treats it and cant really be directed like one, but its possible to ionize a path through the air and run a current though it if you want to specifically hit something or someone with an amount of electricity
the only current practical application of such technology is using it as a pseudo-lightning rod to force natural lightning to strike a specific area for study, but in theory it could be weaponized in a similar manner
That's why I said there's no way you could aim electricity. So this is useless then? We really won't ever have lightning blasters?
I would say it is possible to"initiate" electricity (think static) and prepare a "shot." But the target and the way it arcs cannot be "controlled". It will always travel the path of least resistance to anywhere it can ground itself.
If my high school knowledge of physics still holds up.. An electric-firing gun will be most effective in CQC rather than LRC because of the amount possible variances. Itd be treated like an instantaneous shotgun like weapon...firing one arc at a time. Although accuracy falls as the target is further away, it is still an instant kill if it lands.
Math/physicfags please feel free to correct me
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If you can lower the impedance of air along a specific "path", you could direct current through that like a wire. I don't think that's at all practical even for civilian purposes however when any application that can be used with that is done better and cheaper with current tech.
It's theoretically possible but the problem is really as you mentioned, aiming it.
You can make an electricity canon and force it to blast out of the barrel but aiming it at target without some kind of conductor for it to travel along (for example how a stun gun shoots a tether) is where the idea falls apart.
Even when when you have a device strong enough to actually simulate a lightning bolt, you can't really aim it, merely guide it towards something conductive - which is how a lightning rod works.
>It will always travel the path of least resistance to anywhere it can ground itself.
I forgot what game it was, but the text for one lightning weapon descriped it as shooting an "ion beam" ahead of itself, to guide the electricity to the target you point the gun at.
you can, its just exceedingly dangerous, not only because of the amount of power necessary to make the thing reasonable as a weapon but because of atmospheric and environmental hazards, using something like that while standing too close to power lines or at the wrong altitude during the development of a natural thunderstorm would get you struck down by the fucking hand of zeus
and such devices already exist, at least on a small scale (think like a wireless stun gun), theres just no drive to further the technology because theres no real application where hitting someone with a bolt of manufactured lightning would be more effective or resource-efficient than just blowing them up or shooting them
Does this make any sense?
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But it would be rad as fuck tho
These kinda use electricity and shoot things.
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Wouldn't the ion ball have to travel the speed of light in order for a single "shot" of electricity to follow it? Otherwise you'd have to hold the trigger down to keep a stream of current connected to the ball, which actually works, but it isn't a "cannon" or a "rifle", it's more of flame thrower in the sense of mechanics
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>how would you explain the clouds shooting Electricity?
He can't.
No one can.
We have no fucking idea how lighting works.
All we have is a good guess that's never been proven correct at any point.
Misread Beam for Ball my bad.
In that case, couldn't you have like a constant ion beam (like a laser pointer) and then have the electricity fire along it whenever? That's probably how it works in the game you described thinking about it.
A taser first shoots out wires that hooks onto a person then the electric current travels along them and zaps them.
OP is talking about shooting electricity without some kind of medium for it to travel through you dingus
Different principle, uses electromagnets to chuck a physical projectile.
Once the target has been acquired, the operator depresses the trigger, painting a proton "patch" on the target. Milliseconds later the rifle emits a high voltage arc of electricity, which seeks out the charge differential and annihilates the target.
Doesn't provide any kind of medium for the electricity to travel through. Also wouldn't that description mean that once the target's been hit with that "proton patch" that any other lightning gun would automatically hit him?
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Azure Striker Gunvolt yet.
His power is to emit an electrical field which is your main form of attack but can only strike things near you.
Your weapon is a gun that fires metal bolts that act as a lightning rod attracting the electricity directly into the target. The bolts do next to no damage so you have to 'tag' enemies then zap the shit out of them.
>couldn't you have like a constant ion beam
>That's probably how it works in the game you described thinking about it.
Correct, that's very familiar sounding. Still can't remember the game though.
I guess if you could, say, alter the conductivity of the air along the desired trajectory, or maybe send out some kind of particle field, then you could theoretically control the path.
It wouldn't look like it's usually animated, though. All of the aiming would likely be invisible, or look like a cloud or thin beam of metal, or maybe a shimmering in the air if the refractive index of the air is changed when you alter its conductivity. Then you'd have an instantanous flash, like actual lightning.
I mean, it's not exactly hard science but it's nice they made an effort.
>realize i never looked up exactly how an electric eel generates electricity
>go to wikipedia, read the article
>see this at the bottom
>The Tennessee Aquarium in the United States is home to an electric eel that uses its electrical discharges to post from its own Twitter account. Named Miguel Wattson, the eel's exhibit is wired to a small computer that sends out a prewritten tweet when it emits electricity at a high enough threshold.
Neat.
Actually it's caused by several things and there is a general agreement on how lightning is formed.
Uh, yea we can
Lightning is just air becoming so hot that the properties of its atoms become capable of conducting electricity for a short moment in time. The negative charge built up in the clouds finds the path of least resistance to a point where the charge can be balanced out and we perceive it as a bolt of lightning.
Sure, it's a scientists best guess, just like anything that humans study on an atomic level, but the numbers make a good argument.
You can make the weapon shoot a trail of ions or whatever the fuck before hand.
Kind of like lasing a target.
What do you mean? I'm pretty sure we have understood lightning for ages. Clouds rubbing against each other creates tons of static.
It's the fucking gods getting pissed at humanity, you stupid nigger.
This is it, you use a laser to ionize the air and then send a current through it. It's not efficient though and is nothing like a vidya lightning attack.
As a few people here mentioned it is possible. You just need to guide an electrical discharge via ionization air. You can ionize air by using ionizing radiation beams prior to discharge. So a rifle would work like this: it would shoot invisible beam of x-rays towards target and marker a path for discharge and then immediately shoot lightning.
>You couldn't make an electricity cannon out of metal because it would just stay inside the metal electricity cannon right?
A superior mind can overcome any obstacle.
Something that sprays a conductive mist or metal dust might work like a cool electric version of a flamethrower, but I don't know if that actually possible since electricity is basically magic to me.
Are you fucking kidding me right now? Am I on reddit
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>nigger
he's a ningen
Fuck you cuck
You're all retards. Just rub your feet on some carpet then shoot lightning through your fingers at anything you want, as long as it's around 2mm away.
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I always forget that Sup Forums is riddled with children
Tesla coils aren't just something they made up for Red Alert, user.
They're pretty hard to aim but their effects do look like video game magical lightning attacks.
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>Pikachu doesn't actually shoot lightning bolts
>he shoots a conductive medium from pours at his enemies
>his natural tendency to be positively charged compared to his environment causes the medium to become charged, shocking his enemy
>there's no residue left because the medium turns to plasma/vaporizes quickly when electrified.
Honestly, people have been discussing Pokémon abilities for years. I just pulled this one out of my ass.
What the hell are you talking about that sounds like bullshit.
Electricity as in visible lightning is the flow of electrons to an electron sink which is usually the ground, that heats up the air around it to become visible plasma.
That's not how lightning works. You actually get struck from the ground, starting with a foot
Not if you get bolted directly when nothing is around.
That'd be fucking crazy if they scientifically broke that down, I never considered that at all.
It is magic.
You don't know how lighting works.
That's not how lightning works either. It doesn't "travel along the ground to another target then go back into the sky" once it strikes something. The electricity disperses along the ground
retard
What? If you just happen to be the object of least resistance between the sky and the ground then you get can get bolted directly, as in the electrons come from the cloud, go into the air and go into you before reaching the ground.
Maybe Pikachu fires a highly conductive cluster of spores out of its skin that electricity travels to and then conduct to the object when those spores land on a target.