Re: Odd-ball conversions and left field questions

[Gurth <Gurth@xxxxxxxxx>]

According to Benjamin Lott, on Thu, 29 Mar 2001 the word on the street
was...

> > 1) Would conventional firearms ammunition fire in a vacuum? (ie space)
> 
> 	Even if it would, you wouldn't want it too...the recoil would send you
> out of control

Vacuum != no gravity, although space would be the most likely place where
you'd get to fire a weapon in a vacuum. Still, it's all a matter of bracing
yourself before you fire, if you ask me. Floating free in space and firing
a firearm isn't a smart idea, but if you're well braced against something
with a lot of mass (say, a spacecraft -- a rifle's recoil isn't going to
move a 100+-ton space station very much I'd guess) it wouldn't be much of a
problem.

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