DocRock
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I just want to know if you will be required to file for a permit for interstellar travel.
Well, you’ll definitely need your vaccine passport...
I just want to know if you will be required to file for a permit for interstellar travel.
Sure, but you might be taking "mixture" to literal as I was speaking more general. None the less, neither black powder nor modern smokeless powder needs the presence of external oxygen in any form to function correctly. Firearms work in a hard vacuum or under water, so they will no doubt work on the surface of Mars in that particular atmosphere.Yes, but it is still not a mixture, it is one or two chemical compounds you cannot separate into fuel and oxidizer.
Inorganic oxidizers are inefficient, black powder is 75% potassium nitrate, ANFO blasting agent is 94% ammonium nitrate.
Recoil-operated systems (and gas-operated, for that matter) would work exactly the same as they work on Earth. Recoil is generated when the expanding propellant gases shove the bullet and themselves out of the chamber, down the barrel, and out the muzzle, while exerting equal rearward force on the case and breechface. On Earth, the 14.7 psi in front of the bullet is dwarfed by the 35,000-60,000 psi behind it.So we established the oxygen issue for the combustion, but what about recoil in blow back operated system.
Not if you have your vaccination card.I just want to know if you will be required to file for a permit for interstellar travel.
"Ringworld" books, if memory serves?Although Larry Niven used them in some stories.
Good one!!Did anyone post the Mars semi?
Gil Hamilton - an agent of ARM!!I think the Niven story was in a series of stories he wrote about an agent who worked for the UN that was part of his universe but not directly Ringworld.