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Old 06-11-2016, 06:26 AM   #5
malloyd
 
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Default Re: Unusual-Sized People and the Firearms They Use?

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Originally Posted by starslayer View Post
1. if physics is normal besides whatever is allowing the big guys and the little guys then they are just not going to go down the same paths
This. If you are a foot tall, the minimum size of a furnace big enough to smelt metals starts to look like a fairly major project, which rather cuts into weapon development, but it still looks possible if you really insist. Firearms will be virtually useless against full sized opponents - given half a percent of the energy for the same relative size explosive charge, and relatively less effective (about sqrt(size fraction) = 0.4 relative damage) even on the same scale.

If you are an inch tall, the minimum sustainable size of flames makes it doubtful your species could tame fire, never mind manufacture a firearm, and the much greater dominance of air resistance in your environment probably makes projectile weapons pointless anyway.
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