Wait a minute this is the future, where are all the Phaser Guns?
They have space travel. They have shields that dont actually block anything. Why no Assault Rifles or phased plasma rifles in the 40 watt range?
shareDid you watch the movie??
The shield would stop any projectile/object moving over a certain speed (it's explained but poorly done). An due to the Holtzman effect (I think that was NOT explained in the movie) any energy weapon that would interact with the shield will goo boom (atomic boom).
I did watch the movie. There was a throwaway line along the lines of a "slow knife goes through". I dont remember anything about projectiles. The shields certainly didnt stop falling bombs. Weapons of war usually progress with technology so it was funny to see them with energy shields but at the same time fighting each other with long knives.
shareIt's clearly stated that the doctor disabled the city shield, so the attack with bombs and ships was possible.
The knives could penetrate the shield if correctly used (the fatal blow had to be slower than the shield threshold) and you can see that in some of the fights. Poorly done in most of them.
That was actually a plot hole. According to the novel, shooting an energy weapon to a shield would kill the shooter, the target and everyone around.
The logical consequence is that shields would be abandoned. Using a shield would make suicidal attacks extremely easy (you don't even need a bomb). You could shoot any political figure and kill the whole government. Not to say you wouldn't even need to go suicidal, you could just use One-Time Use Drones and let the shield do the boom.
Yeah, with that I agree ...
Although maybe the energy guns were banned and no one allowed to build them.
I mean think about it: you could do the same with 2 drones controlled by you: one with a shield and placed in the right place and one with an energy weapon targeted at the first one.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dune/comments/agu583/question_about_shields_and_laser_guns/
Ahh ok. Yeah i dont get why they bother with shields at all. They didnt stop knives or bombs.
shareThe solution is a projectile that counteracts it such as one that has a controlled speed burn, not going in with fucking knives.
The Hotlzman effect is pure bullshit by the way, it only exists because the writer had clearly no idea how lasers work.
Controlled speed burn, good luck with that ...
Not quite, maybe he was thinking lasguns more like plasma guns, a la Ghostbusters.
Plus: a lot of SciFi is pure bullshit, like the force. Or dragons. Or whitewalkers. Did you ever say "GoT sucks because whitewalkers and dragons are bullshit".
Or about StarWars. Why do they use those impractical laser swords (or plasma) and wtf is the force anyway. Did you hate SW for those elements? Did you ask about SW "why swords"?
Wouldnt work on plasmaguns like that either, but at least with continous plasma guns (good luck handling that temperature in a handheld weapon) you could have a blowback reaction in theory.
Force, dragons and whitewalkers are fantasy, not science fiction. GOT or star wars are not sci-fi, they are fantasy settings. At least in star wars the lightsavers (which are made out of photon manupulation and not lasers btw) have the benefit of being able to cut through literally anything. Force is magic.
Was thinking that the lightsabers (nice typo btw, lol) are made of incandescent plasma contained in a magnetic field or something?
shareHa, nice typo indeed. im keeping it.
Hmm, wookiepedia says its plasma from a crystal. How unimaginative of George Lucas.
P.S. im waiting for someone to realize photon shields in something other than a novel. These things are crazy. Could theretically even withstand a black hole if you had enough power to keep it stable.