Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 3361-3365 - 28 November - 2 December 2016
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 30 Nov 2016, 11:54 ---like the Thompsons in Tintin,
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Nearly; but they're not the Thompsons, they're Thomson and Thompson (in French: Dupond et Dupont - but I reckon it works even better in English!).
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 30 Nov 2016, 04:48 ---
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 30 Nov 2016, 02:37 ---Although a taser-like weapon would qualify. Its a lot easier making a conductive path using copper wire than brute force and megavolts.
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But lightning is so much more fun!
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Andrei Sakharov is best known for his work on H-Bombs. But he also did work on conventional explosive pumped MHD devices for directional EMP in the 50s. At one time in the Cold War, we were exploring the possibility that the opposition may have stand-off warheads initiating outside close in weapons system range that would basically shoot lightning to fry electronics.
The maths didn't work out though. EMP shielding adequate for lightning strikes at sea and to protect against EMP from exoatmospheric nukes was more than adequate to deal with any feasible MHD bolt at that range. Closer, and a conventional explosive would do as much damage, and be a lot cheaper, more reliable, and easier to store safely.
And.. that's the limit of the unclass data on it.
Storel:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 30 Nov 2016, 03:56 ---
--- Quote from: Storel on 30 Nov 2016, 01:42 ---According to Jeph's note on Tuesday's strip, this is an "electromagnetic pulse pistol".
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It also said "by NERF". I wouldn't take those notes as canon, just amusing.
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I just took that to mean he designed its appearance after some variety of NERF gun, since there are a lot of those and it does look rather toylike.
Method of Madness:
It could be either!
Neko_Ali:
Turn out, it's actually her breath spray. She's just hoping nobody calls her on the bluff.
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