This morning I'm wondering...

[MC Moot]

Have the astronauts ever been armed?...I mean do they have any self defense capability?...What about the international space station?...What if someone goes space crazy or becomes the host for a malicious alien entity?...What’s the contingency plan?...Tranquilizers of some sort?...Wrestle them into an airlock and exhaust them into cold,cold space?...thoughts?...anyway’s…that’s what I’m wondering about this morning…and you?

Space ship for sale,some re-entry damage,only used once,would make awesome lawn ornament... (http://www.space.com/10958-soviet-vostok-space-capsule-auction.html)

[Helvete]

Weapons, almost certainly not. A medic who can administer tranquilizers? Probably. What if the medic goes ape shit? No idea!

[Freebasser]

They're probably armed to the tits.

Think 2 or 3 flamethrowers. Each.

[MC Moot]

Flame throwers in a highly oxygen enriched environment?...that's totally irresponsible crazy talk,Freebaser!...Also projectile weapons would be ruled out as the potential for hull breach is to prevalent…I’m thinking some kind of pneumatically driven weapon similar to the device Javier Bardems character used in No Country for Old Men, may be applicable…(lb)

[Freebasser]

Well, I'm just saying I wouldn't personally go into space without access to at least one flamethrower. A minigun at a pinch. Monogrammed.

[Audio.]

They use a Plasma Cutter

[kaiser soze]

zero g kung fu

[Bob]

so i'm no physicist but i heard that if you fire a projectile weapon in zero gravity, you'll fly backwards at the same speed as the projectile since there's no gravity or whatever to stop you like there is in normal life

so i guess you'd just get a gun and shoot backwards, since a person is bigger than a bullet

[MC Moot]

Today I'm wondering what do you do for a living?...how do you make the rent?...oh...also,what's for dinner?

[MC Moot]

More on my mind...Find the Nuke nearest you... (http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/nuclear_power_plants_locations/index.html?hpt=C2)I am 395 miles from the Columbia Generating Station:

Plant Operator: Energy Northwest

Oldest reactor on site: 26 years old

...huh,I thought I was much further away...

[trailerprincess]

I am wondering who left a packet of clonazepam in my bathroom cabinet.:confused:

[MC Moot]

^Well,I'd say it was the benny fairy of course...

[MC Moot]

This morning I'm wondering when this gonna give...Do,do,do looking out my front door...April 14,2011... (http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x265/mcmoot/April142011.jpg):rolleyes:

[HAL 9000]

so i'm no physicist but i heard that if you fire a projectile weapon in zero gravity, you'll fly backwards at the same speed as the projectile since there's no gravity or whatever to stop you like there is in normal life

so i guess you'd just get a gun and shoot backwards, since a person is bigger than a bullet

The kick from a gun would be the same in space as on the earth. The key principal comes from Newton’s laws of motion - specifically that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. This means that the momentum given to the bullet is exactly matched by the momentum gained by the shooter (but in the opposite direction).

Momentum is given by the mass of the object x its velocity. So if a 100kg astronaut fires a gun which fires a 0.02kg bullet at 250m/s. Then both the astronaut and the bullet have momentum of (250*0.02) = 5kgm/s.

So the astronaut will fly back with a velocity of 5 / 100 = 0.05 m/s or about (about 0.1mph). The difference between space and earth is that on earth, the astronaut is routed to the ground and the friction on his shoes allow him to absorb the momentum. In space he might actually float back unless he is holding on to something but it would be very slow indeed.

As an aside, the momentum of the bullet also transfers into its target, the implication of this is that a person being shot will experience less momentum than the shooter (as some momentum is lost to air friction). This means that a person being shot should never be knocked through the air further than the shooter (assuming they weigh about the same). So movies lie.

Also a gun can be fired in the vacuum of space because the oxygen needed for the ignition of the explosive charge is held in the propellant. The inability of the astronaut to plant their feet in zero gravity would be a big problem for melee weapons, they would just end up spinning around. So I would recommend firearms for fighting alien invaders (not lasers) and using a Taser for everyday missions if you need to subdue an astronaut who has gone nuts.

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Throwing knives and brass knuckles, space is the new jungle -anything goes, anything

[jackrock]

Actually the Russian cosmonauts come with guns.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23131359/ns/technology_and_science-space/

http://www.jamesoberg.com/russiangun_tec.html

[paul jones]

I'm wondering if the moon is straight, gay or just bi-curious

[MC Moot]

I'm wondering how quickly I can remember how to play dominoes correctly before I go to a tournament this weekend...mostly for the curry goat,patties and roti...but still those west indy cats take it pretty seriously...

[MC Moot]

When was the last time you got electrocuted and how?...I got juiced changing a fuse in my stove last night...FUCKKKKKKK!...I wonder if it's at all similar to being tasered...












*note to self: THROW THE BREAKER IDIOT*

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I had a thing as a kid that when I was angry I would go to flick on the lightswitch in my room, and I would accidently smash it a few inches into the wall. It got to a point where my mom wouldn't fix it anymore hah so I had to go out and buy the stuff myself. Some friends came over when I was trying to fix it one day (but I had forgot to shut the power off) and tried to pry the battered switch outta the wall w a butter knife. I stood partially paralyzed man-yelling at the top of my lungs for a few seconds before I fell down haha, my friends heard me yelling but were too afraid to come check.