"Adam Corolla" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Richard Evans" <infodex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Artis <lajolie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>So, is this total sci-fi? It looked like it. The vaporized bodies?
>>>I could not believe the bodies actually would look that way. And the
>>>Vaporizer gun? Perhaps some anti-tank gun might be that strong, but
>>>it looked odd.
>>
>> I'm assuming it was total fiction, but even within its own fictional
>> boundaries it didn't make sense.
>>
>> It fires a hundred thousand rounds a minute with no moving parts? So
>> it's got a couple of hundred barrels.
>
> No, not that many barrels. A couple dozen, I think. There's some clips
> of it being tested on youtube. They fire a *bunch* of rounds and all
you
> bear is one "BAM!" if I recall correctly. It's capable in theory of
> firing more than a million rounds per minute, but in practice I think
that
> would be more expensive to set up than it would be worth. It caused a
bit
> of a stir when it was first announced a few years ago, but mostly in
> places like popular mechanics magazine.
Oops, as an addendum to my comment, I was speaking about a new weapon
capable of firing up to a million rounds a minute. I don't know what this
"vaporizer" is. What show and which episode was it in?
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