will we see blaster rifles in our lifetime?

>>57897907 (OP)

I strongly doubt it. Bullets are cheap and easy to manufacture, there are different designs for almost every application, and they kill things plenty dead as it is. I unironically wouldn't be surprised if the rifles of the 25th century are still mostly recognizable to a modern gunsmith; not because I feel as if we'll hit a technological bottleneck as a species any time soon, but because kinetic projectile + chemical propellant just works at unaliving anything you'll encounter on this planet.

>>57897907 (OP)

if i remember it correctly in star wars the projectile was like a pressurized gas or some shit which is just ridiculous

it's more or less described as some sort of energized exotic gas like plasma. MARAUDER was allegedly a working plasma weapon of some kind but very little is known about it.

>not because I feel as if we'll hit a technological bottleneck as a species any time soon, but because kinetic projectile + chemical propellant just works at unaliving anything you'll encounter on this planet

Isn't the inability to create a different, more efficient means to achieve a goal the very definition of a technological bottle neck(even if the current solution is sufficient enough)?

This.

Chemical -> Kinetic energy is incredibly efficient. 



Plasma and laser weapons require massive amounts of energy, so you'd need a way to store and recharge that energy.

Lasers and plasma also don't do a whole lot of damage. They won't just punch a big hole straight through someone the way conventional munitions do.

Energy weapons as a whole are best suited to being mounted on nuclear powered ships as missile defenses or used as crowd control (i.e. Active Denial System)

>>57897907 (OP)

Look up white and Asian demographics. Short answer is no

what did she mean by this?

>>57897907 (OP)

I mean, ive already got one now. I just have to make really loud "pew pew" sounds and tap a red dot each time I pull the trigger and it seems almost the same.



Captcha: DANG2

In simple terms



>whites and asians have lower birth rates but are smart enough to potentially develop blasters eventually.



>browns reproduce like a plague but are so fucking stupid that you'll likely only end up with sharpened, poopy covered stick.

>>57897907 (OP)

The unfortunate fact is that once you get energy density down to the point to allow effective man portable Gauss, laser or plasma weapons you're basically strapping a bomb to your back to power it.

If the battery gets punctured both you and the two guys next to you are going to get flash evaporated.

>>57897907 (OP)

The energy needed to create a given terminal performance for a given directed-energy weapon will always have greater terminal performance when used to propel a physical projectile.

cont. The only situation there's a reason to use directed-energy weapons is when the expedience of getting force on target is more valuable to you than the greater force of a physical projectile

>>57897907 (OP)

That’s a Sten

And this Boomer is a crack shot with a DL-44 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s6EQQnkUGIk [Embed]

>>57897907 (OP)

God I hope so.

It’s not ogre 

We will be back soon :)
