Timeline for Steam Powered Hammer
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| May 22, 2018 at 14:40 | comment | added | Comic Sans Seraphim | @LoganPickup There are far, far easier ways to launch things to deal damage. Humans have been working on that for millenia. | |
| May 22, 2018 at 10:23 | comment | added | Ruadhan | Yeah, I'm pretty dubious of the physics of this myself, I share it mostly because it's an example of a melee weapon that's supposed to turn gaseous pressure into impact damage | |
| May 22, 2018 at 3:03 | comment | added | Logan Pickup | @Keltari Sorry, the quip about it being a guideline was a joke. My point was that you could eject something out both ends, which leave the fists themselves neutral, and use the ejected mass to cause the damage. | |
| May 22, 2018 at 2:57 | comment | added | Keltari | @LoganPickup That is not how physics works. First, a law is most definitely not a guideline, Its a law. It is unbreakable. Secondly, your example and explanation is wrong. If you were to eject a mass out the back, you are increasing the fists forward momentum. At best, by a negligible amount, at worst, much harder. Hitting harder means there is more force for you to overcome. | |
| May 22, 2018 at 2:33 | comment | added | Logan Pickup | @Keltari There are two ways to get around the 3rd law (it's more of a guideline than a law really, isn't it?): first, provide the opposite reaction as well. A "power fist"-style weapon would, just before impact, launch the business end of the weapon at the target as well as launching a chunk of metal out the back - the two effects cancel each other out, and you just have to be careful where you point it; the second is to use time to soften the impact. If you have dampeners (pistons, etc.) inside the weapon, then they can be used to distribute the force over time to the bearer. | |
| May 21, 2018 at 23:15 | comment | added | Keltari | the problem with devices like this as I mentioned in another answers comments, is Newton's 3rd law. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. While smashing a melon doesnt require a lot of force, smashing a concrete wall does. The force that hits the wall, hits you just as hard. Unless you had a method for solidly planting yourself to the ground and absorbing the energy, punching a wall with such a device would do more damage to your soft body than the hard concrete. In addition to that, that video is bogus. His device doesnt work at all. | |
| May 21, 2018 at 15:54 | history | answered | Ruadhan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |