The VS don't use frigin lasers

[Synergy]

thank you for taking the time to at least enlighten us. sadfully these forums seem to be goin the way of the OF with all the needless flaming lately

[Camping Carl]

Actually nerve, all of the vanu guns DO have AP mode. It uses the same ammunition, but it takes up twice as much energy.

I'm pretty sure this is just the vanu pistol.

[Happy lil Elf]

Where are the flames? This board has a looooong way to go before anyone need to be worrying about it degenerating into pointless flame fests. Well unless you consider every smart ass joke a flame. Keep in mind a smart ass comment is usually just that. Don't take it seriously, lord knows the person making it probably isn't.

I'd be happy to demonstrate a real flame, but I don't know what the mods rules are on profanity and/or personal attacks and I'm too lazy to look

[Oberon]

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I'm pretty sure this is just the vanu pistol.
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I'm pretty sure it isent. I asked around before I made the post.

[Matuse]

According to the official information at the planetside website in the weapons section, only the pistol has the ability to change firing modes. Until that is contradicted by someone in beta, or a SOE employee, I'll take their word over yours.

[Oberon]

Okay, so mabey the people I asked wernt the the smartest...


Perhaps AP mode isent applicible to the Lasher and Lancer...But what about the Pulsar? I don't see why it couldent/shouldent have an AP mode.

[Ouroboros]

They would be at a serious disadvantage if their Empire rifle does not have any AP capabilities. I think it must have.

[Terik]

Originally posted by Prefect
Thats not just specific to lasers, it applies to all forms of light. Can you see the light rays from a flashlight unless comes in contact with something (dust in the air, the ground, or whatever)? Nope. All the photons in a laser travelling in one direction has nothing to do with it not being able to be seen in a vaccuum.

There isn't more than one form of light, and that form is made up of photon packets. Your eye sees things by absorbing the photon packets an object is emitting, if your eye does not recieve any photon packets it won't see anything. Since the photon packets in a laser are all traveling in one direction (not into your eye) and since theres nothing to obstruct the laser and bounce some photon packets towards your eye in a vacuum, you cannot see the laser when viewing it from the side.

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[cell.nerve]

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No actually he is right, the pulsar has a 2nd firing mode as well, using 2 rounds instead of one for enhanced damage, but this isnt very wise if your in a heated battle because it causes yuou to reload every 10 seconds

[Matuse]

There isn't more than one form of light

Incorrect. There are tens of billions of different forms of light. It might be infinite, but I'm not enough of a physicist to say with authority.

Infrared light frequencies interract much differently with the world than say, an X-Ray. Homogenous light (like in a laser) also operates differently than a more broadband set of frequencies such as sunlight or from a lightbulb.

[Terik]

Originally posted by Matuse
Incorrect. There are tens of billions of different forms of light. It might be infinite, but I'm not enough of a physicist to say with authority.

Infrared light frequencies interract much differently with the world than say, an X-Ray. Homogenous light (like in a laser) also operates differently than a more broadband set of frequencies such as sunlight or from a lightbulb.

Yea well I still got the main point of the post correct, you can't see something, if your eyes can't pick up the photon packets it is emiting.

Edit: Infrared light is not another form of light. Ya see, when the electron of an atom discharges some energy, it comes out in the form of a photon packet, now, it's place on the spectrum is decided by how much power has been put into those photon packets (or how much energy has been discharged not sure which) meaning based on how much power has been put into the packets it could come out as infrared or green light or blue light etc etc etc.

Oh and as for what you said about X rays read this:

X Ray, penetrating electromagnetic radiation, having a shorter wavelength than light, and produced by bombarding a target, usually made of tungsten,...

Got it from here: http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpag...x?search=X+Ray

Basically, X rays aren't forms of light, I think there radio waves I'll look it up.

[Cyanide]

Actually, weather or not you can see a lazers beam is dependant on the wavelength of the light and the gasses it is passing through. For instance, it is possible to see a green or blue lazer in the air (in the dark anyway, the reflection is too dim otherwise) because green and blue light have a much smaller wavelength and reflect much better off the tiny particles in the air.

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Wow. I can't believe i just typed that. I need a life

[Camping Carl]

No actually he is right, the pulsar has a 2nd firing mode as well, using 2 rounds instead of one for enhanced damage, but this isnt very wise if your in a heated battle because it causes yuou to reload every 10 seconds

That's news to me.
So in this mode does it do more damage to armored targets, and less to unarmored ones? Or it just more damage overall?

[Terik]

Originally posted by Cyanide
Actually, weather or not you can see a lazers beam is dependant on the wavelength of the light and the gasses it is passing through. For instance, it is possible to see a green or blue lazer in the air (in the dark anyway, the reflection is too dim otherwise) because green and blue light have a much smaller wavelength and reflect much better off the tiny particles in the air.

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Wow. I can't believe i just typed that. I need a life

True, that is one factor of a laser's visibility. BUT, regardless of it's wavelength be it infrared or something within the human eye's seeable spectrum you cannot see a laser from the side unless there is something obstructing it (air particles, dust, etc etc.).

Edit: There is no standard to how somone should live his life, if one wants to pursue the study of the sciences or remain secluded from society then thats alright. People really shouldn't judge this.

[Zylos]

this is makin my head hurt reading this.

*slowly backs out of thread*