Hypothesized weaponized Lasers don't really punch through and
cauterize. I'm not an expert on the subject, but I've heard from
enough experts to say with some confidence that they would cause
damage more or less identical to that of a kinetic weapon, like a
bullet. The idea is that you use a 'pulsed' laser, not a continuos
beam, so that the first pulse creates a small steam explosion upon
hitting that puts a little crater into a person, then the next pulse
comes and puts a crater at the bottom of that crater, and so on.
Given that pulses just need to be slow enough to let the steam
dissipate a bit (which happens very, very quickly), the effect is
that you basically blow a hole through the person. The wound doesn't
cauterize cause it's not doing damage through heat, its doing damage
mechanically. The wounds will be messy, deadly, and possibly a bit
gorier than a bullet, as the momentum won't push all the blood in
one direction- it'll just fly everywhere.
On Oct 10, 2011, at 11:55 AM, <dwtulloh61@cox.net> wrote:
Actually,
I think I recall reading somewhere that really high speed missile
weapons
( bullets, arrows ) can actually do LESS damage than their low speed
counterparts - they essentially punch a hole through the body as
opposed
to breaking up, spalling, etc.
This is a particular problem where lethal lasers are considered -
since
they both punch through and cauterize at the same time, they can do
less
damage if they happen to hit in a non-critical location.
Can anyone confirm?
---- Margaret Tapley <barnswallow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
There's a similar phenomenon at work in the bow section of the
weapons
table. A longbow doesn't necessarily do more damage than a horse
bow.
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