• Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    26 days ago

    Fun fact about this in real life: A problem that gunmakers have had to deal with is that, although a faster-moving bullet fires straighter and penetrates better into its target, if the bullet moves too fast it will just poke a hole straight through a person without imparting enough of its kinetic energy onto them to be able to do real damage. So, i doubt the peasant railgun would be effective in real life.

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      26 days ago

      Pure theory, likely never ever going to be real, but could a bullet move so fast that it goes through someone without even damaging them?

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        26 days ago

        Not really applicable but think there could be a small chance it would quantum tunnel through the person but that’s such miniscule chance.