Talk:Plasma weapon

message: * Hey, here is something for you to ponder, get a laser, and a photonic electro inducer to emit electons into the laser beam.  With the laser emitting to one direction, your target.  The electrons emittied "if charged" will electrocute it destination.  This is highly simular to a thasr that lots of scifi movies use. 00:56, 7 September 2004 User:209.80.76.5 
* This is called an electrolaser. Anthony Appleyard 09:14, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
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message: * I removed Star Wars: Episode 2 from the list.  I don't recall any ranged weapons unique to that movie, and regular blasters, despite their use of plasma, aren't called that.-LtNOWIS 03:23, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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message: * Wouldn't a 'lightning gun' like some kind of van de graaf generator be a plasma gun by definition? It wouldn't have the limits described here, as we're very good at generating lightning and it travels vast distances.. just hard to control at present. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.122.208.51 (talk) 19:38, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lightning is plasma, so... 

message: * How do the weapons in Halo use them? I can't think of a way, unless I'm not understanding the containment bottles correctly. 20:42, 25 April 2007 User:75.57.147.185
*If you look at the plasma weapons in Halo they all have a spark gap near the front. This converts the surrounding atmosphere into plasma which is fired with magnets or something. These guns do not use a containment bottle which is probably the reason why you never have reload them.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ConnorY71 (talk • contribs) 21:53, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magnetic Confinement Bottle 

message: * Is there any proof that phase pistols from Star Trek are supposed to fire plasma?
* No, in fact it is strongly implied that phase cannons are improvements over older plasma cannons, such as when Travis's brother states that the Horizon has two plasma cannons and in the same episode states that he thought that a technique used to improve Enterprise's weapons wouldn't work because his ship didn't have phase cannons.  That and the fact that Archer tells Hoshi that phase pistols don't need to compensate for particle drift like older weapons suggest that the weapons are not plasma based. 24.99.167.17 21:07, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phase Pistol 

message: * I don't know that references to fiction in the Practicality of Plasma Rifles section is appropriate for an article that describes something that is not necessarily fictional (though it is for the most part hypothetical). There is a seperate section for fiction that includes plasma rifles which would be more appropriate. Does anyone wish to comment on this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.200.200 (talk) 01:30, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  References to fiction 

message: * I think this article really needs to try to be more encylopedic. Rather than struggling to show how these weapons may hypothetically be possible, and doing so with no reputable references, I think it'd be better to just explain what various scifi authors have stated in their own works, and cite any reputable authorities (scientists, researchers in the field of directed energy weapons, etc.). As it is, this article reeks of Stridex pads and pocket protectors.
* I wish I could be helpful, but I just don't read that much of the stuff. Maybe someone with wider knowledge of cite-worthy science fiction sources can come along and make this a little more respectable. Matt S. (talk) 15:30, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scifi fan speculation party 

message: * Shouldn't the title really be Plasma Gun instead of Plasma Rifle?  It would make more sense I think, not to mention that plasma cannons, pistols, rifles, machine guns and whatever else would be automatically included.  Just throwing it out there.  Fallenangei (talk) 11:14, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title Change? 

message: * This page is just an unsourced, fancruftier version of plasma weapon. It should be merged there.  just undid such an action without a rationale; if there isn't a practical reason to maintain two articles for this subject then it should be re-done. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 10:16, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge to [[plasma weapon]] 

message: * This article currently states the following: "The terminology 'plasma rifle' is usually a misnomer, as a rifle is a firearm with a rifled barrel. A rifled barrel would not typically be thought necessary to fire a beam or bolt of plasma, making most shoulder-arm plasma weapons actually plasma carbines" (emphasis in source). A carbine, by Wikipedia's own article, is simply a short-barreled rifle. Pistols, for that matter, are also rifled, and muskets and shotguns can be rifled too. Therefore, a plasma carbine is equally a misnomer under the current usage. A solution would be to state that terms like "rifle" or "carbine" have a colloquial meaning, or refer to the overall length and ergonomics of the plasma weapon, rather than being scientific descriptors of operation.--Woerkilt (talk) 07:10, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terminology of Rifle Versus Carbine 

message: I moved the section on practicality of plasma weapons to Plasma weapon, where it belongs.  If anybody has a gripe with this, feel free to respond. Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty | Averted crashes 21:01, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
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message: I don't know with you, but I think she is using either coilgun or electrothermal gun, because she can use another projectile, such as arrow202.137.25.53 (talk) 03:29, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleting gurren lagann superconducting plasma rife (really?)