I just finished reading [i]The Cole Protocol[/i] (Quite addictive) and one part stood out to me. The part where Captain Keyes and the ODSTs jump into outer space and use their battle rifles to distance themselves from the ship. The author tried to be intelligent and use Newton's Third Law of Physics to support this, however, when one thinks about it, guns would not even work in space at all because there is no atmosphere.
Discuss.
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The guns of our time wouldn't work indeed, but we are talking about guns of the year 2530 maybe, so human technology is way different. Do not apply our technology to a 500 year technology ahead. So yeah, the guns in 500 years in the future will surely be different from our time. Just use your brain to think a little bit. [Edited on 04.21.2012 10:19 PM PDT]