Timeline for Can guns be rendered unusable by changing the atmosphere?
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| Jul 11, 2024 at 11:20 | answer | added | Going Durden | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 11, 2024 at 11:01 | answer | added | ChellCPlus | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 11, 2024 at 10:54 | comment | added | Going Durden | @Clockwork-Muse in Dies the Fire it was Aliens, not spirits, though they were sufficiently godlike and the distinction made little practical sense. | |
| Nov 14, 2019 at 1:21 | vote | accept | Beofett | ||
| Nov 21, 2016 at 23:35 | answer | added | Matija Nalis | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 21, 2016 at 15:13 | history | protected | James | ||
| Nov 21, 2016 at 13:30 | answer | added | Kickstart | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 21, 2016 at 13:28 | comment | added | Erik | There exist more bullets than people. It's going to be a while before they run out after the apocalypse. | |
| Nov 21, 2016 at 11:28 | comment | added | daiscog | Removing guns from a post-apocalyptic world is surely as simple as saying all the munitions factories (and any other ammunition-manufacturing capabilities) were destroyed during the apocalypse? Once stockpiled ammo runs out, guns are defunct. | |
| Nov 21, 2016 at 3:35 | answer | added | 51n15t3r | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 20, 2016 at 17:57 | answer | added | hg786t76g | timeline score: -1 | |
| Nov 20, 2016 at 17:20 | comment | added | hg786t76g | Wonder if there's a way to store enough energy in the molecules of the air + have it released by extremely high velocity movement. Could be specially designed molecules or an unplanned side effect of something. When a bullet begins to travel it pushes air extremely quickly, the air flows around the bullet, and so much energy is suddenly released that the bullet is smashed. It drops to the ground. Or maybe rips apart the gun if it happens in the barrel. Also works for explosions. Low velocities like walking, running, driving a car don't trigger it so everyone is safe doing day to day things. | |
| Nov 20, 2016 at 15:34 | comment | added | Bloke Down The Pub | @Shadow503 A higher oxygen content means fires would start more easily and burn more fiercely. That's nowhere near having the entire atmosphere explode. For that to happen it would need to contain oxygen and fuel. | |
| Nov 20, 2016 at 3:19 | comment | added | SpliFF | @Joe. "Souls in The Great Machine" had guns, they regularly duelled with them. It was electronic technology that was banned and the ban was enforced by a belt of satellites that lasered anything emitting electromagnetic radiation. | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 20:35 | answer | added | cybernard | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 18:32 | answer | added | JessLovely | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 14:33 | answer | added | hyde | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 13:17 | comment | added | user2013 | It's curious to me how many 'post apocalyptic' stories revolve around guns being absent. | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 11:25 | answer | added | Dennis | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 5:33 | comment | added | Clockwork-Muse | Non-science: Dies the Fire ("spirits did it"). Sorta Science based: John Ringo's There Will be Dragons - energy transfer net takes energy from everything above a certain level. | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 4:36 | comment | added | Sqeaky | Modern guns work in the vacuum of space... In theory at least. All The energy and reaction material is inside the brash cartridge. If the atmosphere were thicker, that would mitigate guns. Bullet do poorly in a swimming pool. | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 3:48 | answer | added | Megha | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 0:26 | answer | added | redbow_kimee | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 18:48 | answer | added | Cal | timeline score: -3 | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 16:57 | answer | added | automaton | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 14:03 | answer | added | Arvo | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 11:51 | comment | added | Beofett | @Schwern my goal is to present a version of our modern world that has collapsed, and in the shadows of that society violent gangs form... but don't use guns. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 11:02 | answer | added | jwenting | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 9:52 | comment | added | Erik | Extreme, continuous turbulence would make guns more or less ineffective after a few meters. It won't do much for explosives though. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 8:28 | comment | added | ntno | Something like cold welding could be it, with something in the atmosphere that cleans the metal of any contaminants. Weapons resistant to this (vacuum guns, or guns with lubricants resistant to it) would be the only ones left. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 8:22 | answer | added | jdm | timeline score: 20 | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 7:26 | comment | added | Headcrab | Don't know if this fits your setting, but with early guns they had a lot of trouble keeping the gunpowder dry. Basically couldn't use guns at all in the rainy weather. If the atmosphere is extremely humid, it may render the early models of firearms completely impractical, then modern firearms, for which it is not a problem, may never be invented. (Unless, of course, they brought modern firearms from outer space). | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 6:38 | comment | added | a4android | @Joe Glad to help. He was the most likely candidate. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 6:32 | comment | added | Joe | @a4android I am! Thanks for reminding me!! | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 6:31 | comment | added | a4android | @Joe: You may be thinking of Sean McMullen, either his "Souls in the Great Machine" (1999) or "The Miocene Arrow" (2000) or "Eyes of the Calculor" (2001). Novels in the Greatwinter sequence. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 6:29 | answer | added | Piro | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 4:16 | comment | added | Joe | There was an Australian author I read a few decades ago who had nearly exactly that as a plot line. I can't remember for the life of me his name, Jack something I think. Giant space-battleships circled Earth and enforced it, I think, rather than actually changing the world. And maybe it was electronics and not gunpowder, actually, hrm. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 3:17 | comment | added | Schwern | When you say "prevent combustion" do you mean no fires can sustain themselves anymore? That's a lot more than just guns. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 2:20 | answer | added | Loren Pechtel | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 22:14 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 11 | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 21:26 | history | edited | Beofett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Broaden question slightly based off of suggestion in one answer that wasn't quite covered by Q, but should have been
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| Nov 17, 2016 at 21:25 | answer | added | Memming | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 21:21 | answer | added | Henry Taylor | timeline score: 82 | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 21:10 | history | edited | Beofett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added qualifier
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| Nov 17, 2016 at 21:09 | answer | added | Samwise | timeline score: 44 | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 20:58 | history | asked | Beofett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |