#8768
zapkitty
Participant

MTd2 wrote:

You’ll find that if you wave your hands fast enough eventually you’ll take off and start flying around the room.

This is not a joke. The muzzle energy of this gun is about 150KJ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M230_Chain_Gun

I’m not even going to check your numbers this time…

But let’s say that each pulse generates a whole megajoule… what difference would it make?

Why?

Or, in other words, what parameters are missing from your scenario?

Handwaving is fun for invoking a background for a “what if” supposition… not so good when you say that you are trying to apply critical thinking.

Edit: quote added ’cause Aaron got there first