Talk:Phased plasma gun

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[edit] Acronym

I always thought the acronym PPG in Babylon 5 meant "pneumatic pressure gun". When firing the gun, the special effect shows a rapidly-moving region of distortion — exactly what one would expect from an region of high pressure dense enough to have a different refractive index, causing visual warping of objects behind the region. And this is exactly the kind of gun one wants inside a spacecraft: no solid projectile, no "plasma" to short out electronics, just a region of pressure intense enough to stun or even be lethal to living tissue. Oh, well, I guess superheated air also makes sense. Thanks to this article I have now been corrected! -Amatulic 23:55, 13 November 2006 (UTC)