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< taza> BTW, a line from Terminator: "a 40 watt plasma rifle"
< taza> ... the fuck would you do with that? Mildly inconvenience someone?
< taza> Plasma weaponry is about the most useless sci-fi weapon ever imagined.
< taza> Plasma looks cool... and that's about it.
< taza> Why was that line "a 40 watt plasma rifle", instead of, say, "a 40 gigawatt plasma rifle"?
< taza> 40 watts is not a lot of power, and plasma anything is absurdly inefficient.
< taza> And if you had enough juice to make plasma dangerous, why the fuck would you use only 40 watts of power?
<~FallingUp> Clearly it's The Future and everything works amazingly well and efficiently on 40 watts.
<+SabreFR> taza: the sun is in a plasma state
<+SabreFR> seems to work pretty well to warm up the planet
< taza> Yes, but the sun is also a bit larger than 40 watts.
<+SabreFR> taza: yeah but you reach the plasma state with 2000°C so it will burn you a bit
< taza> With 40 watts?
<+SabreFR> and who knows, maybe their rifles are so efficient that they only need 40W
< taza> You'd have to spend a whole lot of time warming it to make it do anything but cause a mild sunburn
<+SabreFR> taza: "The Future"™
< taza> Doesn't work!
<+Sporks> Look buddy, doesn't work is a strong statement. Does it sit on the couch all day? Is it making faces at you? Does it want more money? Is it sleeping with your girlfriend? Please be specific! or "No, it doesn't work YET"
< taza> Shut up Sporks, you are a bot. You're not impartial in this.
<+SabreFR> taza: learn from Sporks
< taza> To be fair, I suppose they are already breaking the laws of physics with the time travel and all.
< taza> So maybe their 40-watt plasma rifle has a 40-watt plasma containment unit and the plasma's teleporting directly from the sun?
<+SabreFR> wouldn't be surprising |