Talk:Plasma rifle

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  • To the user who keeps adding, "This is VERY untrue. go to www.hsvt.org" (IP: 216.120.170.5), please do not discuss the article's content within the article itself. Wikipedia has discussion pages for a reason. 9 February 2006 User:69.95.171.100

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  • Hey, here is something for you to ponder, get a laser, and a photonic electro inducer to emit electons into the laser beam. With the laser emitting to one direction, your target. The electrons emittied "if charged" will electrocute it destination. This is highly simular to a thasr that lots of scifi movies use. 00:56, 7 September 2004 User:209.80.76.5
  • This is called an electrolaser. Anthony Appleyard 09:14, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
  • The plasma rifle....umh need to add a bio sphere shell that breaks unpon contact to another bio substance then you can have it not dissipate while it is in transition to destroy its target. 00:56, 7 September 2004 User:209.80.76.5
The railgun .... All it is... Is an directional magnetic generator that can move the metallic matter at the speed of light to one direction. With no kick back. 00:56, 7 September 2004 User:209.80.76.5
The spider land mind "Unreal 2004" ... Just a robotic eight legged, that can find it emenies the KA BOOM.... 00:56, 7 September 2004 User:209.80.76.5
Plus Phasers.... The ammo of this weapon is more interesting. Just imagine the smallest yet powerful electrodynamic generator. When the ammo is shot out, the barrel being another electro charger charges the ammo round, as the round moves in the air, the outter shell spins turning yet another electrical charge that once it hits it target it shocks the shit out of them, yet to get it to glow to show off what round was fired, it has the elements which makes the fireworks colorful or it would have very power leds on it. 00:56, 7 September 2004 User:209.80.76.5
  • Where were plasma rifles in Star Wars: Episode II?-LtNOWIS 21:35, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • See Blaster (Star Wars). They convert blaster gas into light, not plasma. Wizrdwarts (T|C) 21:08, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Just a question... A Plasma rifle isn't really a rifle in the true sense of the word, as they would not have rifling in the barrel, correct? 23:22, 27 December 2004 User:24.151.32.218 (Talk)
  • I thought about that today. I guess the modern colloquial use for words in Sci-fi is just that any 2-handed ranged weapon counts as a rifle, if it looks vaguely like one. I guess terms like "blaster musket" just wouldn't be the same. On a related note, if nobody points out the plasma rifles in Episode II, I just might have to remove that reference-LtNOWIS 05:44, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Pretty much. Words can change meaning from their original definition anyway. For example the word, "decimate" used to mean killing every tenth person, hence the prefix "deci". Today it just means killing or destroying something. 65.40.239.254 16:31, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Problem with that is that the Babylon 5 PPG links here from the PPG disambig. Two-handed versions(two different ones that I can remember) are seen in the series, but much, much, much more common was the smaller pistol variant. -Graptor 07:31, 18 October 2005 User:66.42.149.254
  • I think a rifle is generally considered to be a medium to long range light two-handed weapon. If you can have Plasma 'guns' then theoretically you could have plasma rifles, shotguns, SMG's, gatling guns, etc... The idea being that the weapon would have a similar strategic use as the gun its named after, with the difference that it fires Plasma instead of bullets. Sahuagin 13:20, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
  • IIRC, the plasma weapon in Deus ex wasn't really a rifle, it was more of a bit of heavy equipment, it took up the same amount of inventory space as the GEP gun (rocket launcher) and flamethrower, so should be considered in the same category. 00:21, 19 April 2005 User:Pitt2

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I removed Star Wars: Episode 2 from the list. I don't recall any ranged weapons unique to that movie, and regular blasters, despite their use of plasma, aren't called that.-LtNOWIS 03:23, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lightning is plasma, so...

Wouldn't a 'lightning gun' like some kind of van de graaf generator be a plasma gun by definition? It wouldn't have the limits described here, as we're very good at generating lightning and it travels vast distances.. just hard to control at present. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.122.208.51 (talk) 19:38, 29 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Magnetic Confinement Bottle

How do the weapons in Halo use them? I can't think of a way, unless I'm not understanding the containment bottles correctly.

[edit] Economics

Economics is also an element of practicality. Unless the gain in weapon performance outweighs the additional cost, both in terms of pure cash and in terms of time, maintenance, safety, reliability, and so on, then plasma-based weaponry will never be used even if 'scientifically' feasible.

[edit] Phase Pistol

Is there any proof that phase pistols from Star Trek are supposed to fire plasma?

No, in fact it is strongly implied that phase cannons are improvements over older plasma cannons, such as when Travis's brother states that the Horizon has two plasma cannons and in the same episode states that he thought that a technique used to improve Enterprise's weapons wouldn't work because his ship didn't have phase cannons. That and the fact that Archer tells Hoshi that phase pistols don't need to compensate for particle drift like older weapons suggest that the weapons are not plasma based. I am removing the picture. 24.99.167.17 21:07, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References to fiction

I don't know that references to fiction in the Practicality of Plasma Rifles section is appropriate for an article that describes something that is not necessarily fictional (though it is for the most part hypothetical). There is a seperate section for fiction that includes plasma rifles which would be more appropriate. Does anyone wish to comment on this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.200.200 (talk) 01:30, 2 March 2008 (UTC)