Talk:Mobius Infinity

Am I the only one who finds this actually painful? A lot of the more outlandish 2nd Generation desgins are questionable from a conceptual perspective, but generally only in the sense that more strightforward design (Gatling-33) might be a better use of resources.

This one, though, is wrong.

Firstly, all the potential energy gained by a launched object projectile comes from the reduction in it's kinetic energy due to gravity; total energy remains constant in an ideal system and declines due to drag in a real system.

The other problem is that the wings needed to change the course of the shells would need to be... rather large, in the sense that Manhattan is rather small. And unlike a solar sail, which would need to be built on a simmiliarly geographic scale, the forces involved would preclude the use of a low-weight materials such as mylar membrane or titanium alloy. Then there's the small matter that this arrangement is essentially bouncing bullets off steel plates; potentially lethal, but vastly less so to a man in ballistic armor when compared to shooting him directly.

Heir of the Void (talk) 02:35, December 4, 2015 (UTC)