Why doesn't Hollywood get laser guns right?

Why doesn't Hollywood get laser guns right?

When does Hollywood ever get anything right?

it's plasma guns now

because any kind of laser powerful enough to do physical damage would fire in a pulse and not a continuous beam and they have to slow down any action for the slow moving american eyes who make up the bulk of the viewers.

But user, a handheld continuous laser is not going to be powerful enough to be more than mildly irritating on a completely unarmored person

If it the laser's full energy could somehow be concentrated into a smaller timeframe, at the cost of rate-of-fire and energy velocity, then it'd be something that could actually be dangerous.

Of course laser guns don't exist so the theoretical physics behind it is irrelevant until we advance further technologically - right now ballistic weapons are by far our most effective choice in personal combat

A continuous laser would be extremely inefficient compared to pulse firing.

The only time it wouldn't be is against armored targets, where boring through the thick armor might be useful.

Ray guns are cheesy and associated with B-movies from the 50s. Star wars made laser bullets cool.

anytime they aren't wearing eye protection it means the technology is completely speculative, so there's right or wrong. you just do whatever works best visually

It's light, it's not going to fly through the air unless it's an incredibly long distance, burst fire or not

If it was a continuous stream it wouldn't be a laser gun, it would be a laser cutter.

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>wear clothes made out of discoballs
beat that one laserfags

Nigga it moves at the speed of light. It's instantaneous as far as anyone is concerned. You press the trigger and the guy drops with a hole burned in him, instantly. Laser bullets are slower and therefore less accurate and less efficient because you're going to be wasting energy on "shots" that hit nothing some of the time because nobody has perfect accuracy. A real laser gun will hit what you point it at 100% of the time.

you're not going to see the beam at all between the target and the emitter unless its hitting a lot of shit between the emitter and target

Hollywood can't get guns that actually exist right, how the fuck would they manage future weaponry right?

>suppressor makes the gun give of an almost silent "plop plop"
>people fire guns indoors with no suppressor and don't get hearing damage (Archer of all fucking shows is actually the best for this)
>infinite magazines
>magazines called "clips"
>double-barrelled shotguns being fired 10x in a row (Ash in Evil Dead gets a pass, because he's Ash)
>people looking down the sights with their fucking eyepatch or missing eye

Shit, it's not even just Sup Forums related shit - pic related is how the guns in Fallout 4 work

blasters are plasma

besides, any time a sci fi /fantasy technology isn't working the way it would if we did it, you should assume that there must be some future tech we don't understand that's the cause of it.

depends on the kind of laser but that was just to illustrate

>a handheld continuous laser is not going to be powerful enough to be more than mildly irritating on a completely unarmored person
How is this even an argument when the technology isn't real to begin with? You just say that they can make a continuously firing laser that's lethal.

Some lasers are in the visible spectrum. For military purposes though, you'd think they would make them invisible.

>because any kind of laser powerful enough to do physical damage would fire in a pulse and not a continuous beam

You've never seen Real Genius have you?

It's my headcanon and the only reason that makes logical sense as to why it happens that way

Star Trek knew this

Your headcannon isn't any more logical than anyone else's, it's exactly as nonsensical.

Why do people think that all future technology must abide by what we understand about science and the universe at this moment?


Ok ok, technically Star Wars takes place in the past, but it's practically in the future.


But still, it's shortsighted. A thousand years ago the world's too minds would be flabbergasted by today's technology. They literally wouldn't be able to understand how the internet, particle accelerators, or helicopters work. Why are some people so dumb to assume that we think we know everything?


Plato's cave niggas

helicopters are actually pretty fucking simple, even a thousand years ago they knew Air wasn't just "nothing" and they knew how birds flew, so explaining the movement of air to create downforce and lift a helicopter wouldn't actually be that far beyond their comprehension

The motor powering the helicopter and all the electronics in it - now that's another story - but the flight itself is simple enough

I want to see you say this to a physicist

They're not lasers, they're bolts of plasma contained in a magnetic field weak enough to break apart on impact

I'm guessing some would be inclined to agree with him

Might as well just use bullets

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It would be a light saber with no end point

Most would not.

based vidyakino getting it right

Wouldn't a continuous stream of heat melt the barrel?

Sentinel Beam a shit

That's the point, isn't it? The technology isn't real so it really doesn't matter if its a continuous beam or in bursts, it just works however they say it works.

>Of course laser guns don't exist
Yes they do

Akira really was ahead of its time

in so many small subtle ways

>basin expectations for future technology based on existing technology

people will never fly in rockets because the wheel stays on the ground

>>people fire guns indoors with no suppressor and don't get hearing damage (Archer of all fucking shows is actually the best for this)
the best way to make a show feature realism is to make a joke out of it

say this to anybody offline and they will call you a retard to your face

No, dingus. Laser based weapons would end in the emitter and lens and would not require a barrel in the first place. Even if hey used a barrel for some weird reason, the heat that it would experience would only be a result of the energy transferred to the air inside of the barrel, which is of course much less than the rest of the energy that is being contained within the photons going directly forwards. The types of weapons that use narrow are hints like projectile weapons that need barrel length to stabilise their projectiles or particle bean type weapons that could use the barrel length to house additional particle acceleration systems (eg electromagnets in an electron beam weapon).

Isn't the sentinel beam a particle beam of some sort? It sure as hell isn't a laser.

Powerful portable lasers exist for one, and in sci-do settings you should presume that they have much better power sources than we have.

>that gif
top kek m8

>not require a barrel in the first place

You'd need one for aiming

I'm a software engineer but I have a physics bachelors degree. Any scientist who thinks we know everything is oblivious.

wouldnt lasers get diffused by moisture in the air?

>pic related is how the guns in Fallout 4 work

Guns are mirrored in video games to prevent the very small likelihood of being sued by a gun manufacturer for using their weapon's likeness without permission.

They also do it so players can see the action and see the brass getting spat out, it makes guns look more physically active and less plain.

What he meant is that the light is all moving in one direction, from the emitter to the target. For you to see this light, it would need to be redirected by hitting something like mist, smoke, fog, etc. In clear air you wouldn't see it.

Unless you have a targeting light attached to see where you are shooting

yeah this isn't true at all, especially not in fallout 4's case.

>"Laser" guns/pistols/etc
>fires a charged/modified beam of light
>if your target is less than say 1860 miles from you you can't actually miss as long as you're on target
>1860 miles = 1/100th of a second for a beam of light to travel the distance
>in most "laser" gun/pistol fights the target is just a few feet away, maybe a few dozen at most
>if your aim is accurate you can't miss, they can't dodge, they can't sneak off in time, and so on

Missing a target with a "laser" gun or pistol is impossible in movies and TV shows in 99.999% of the situations as long as they're actually on target.

This shit is as bad as:

- tires squealing in the dirt aka "The Dukes of Hazzard" scenario
- someone hot wiring a car ignition but apparently not realizing the fucking steering column is locked

and many many other stupid dumbass fucked up situations.