The official Prometheus website, Weylandindustries.com, has been updated with several new sections and some very cool pictures of vehicles, space suits, futuristic buildings and more. There’s a couple of very ‘familiar’ security items in there as well. The new sections include security, electronics, terraforming, energy, transportation and health. The quality of the art is very good. Make sure to check them out below:
now you're getting it.
Surely the 'purists' are those who scream what is or is not canon.
...the rest of us don't give a crap.
The L'Uomo Vogue one is actually in the present issue and this man in the shot certainly isn't a fashion model.
a designer at weylandindustries.com:
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Hmm... Wonder if it has a Flux Capasitor...
No love for the Tavor, Chupa?
and if you were wondering, the reason why almost no countries have adopted these seemingly advantageous designs as their infantry mainstay comes down to three factors: poor trigger performance, bad weight balance, and difficult reload/prone firing(the action is way too close to your face). the Aug is one of the better ones and still has these problems.
Then everything from ALIENS is cannon.
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... and that wikipage has the rifle from Die Hard - just makes Karl more badass than he already was
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Hi Eva,
Due to the expansion of the gases, the bullet generally accelerates along the full length of the barrel. So, for a given bullet mass, and given propellent type/charge, the "muzzle velocity" of the bullet (initial velocity as it exits the muzzle) is largely a function of the barrel length. Now, this is a bit of a generalization. There are trade-offs to having too short a barrel, and too long a barrel...both in terms of ballistics, as well as to operational function, so the firearms designer tries to optimize the barrel length depending on the intended purpose of the firearm.
And yes, for a given projectile and cartridge, there is a limit point whereby the barrel would become too long, which would have a detrimental effect on the muzzle velocity. This would occur when the friction between the bullet and the barrel, as well as air resistance, equals the continuously diminishing gas pressure behind the bullet...at which point the bullet would begin to deccelerate, before exiting the muzzle.
Now I seem to remember how in Die Hard, Karls rifle (the one he's seen assembling in the elevator, going upstairs to kick McClanes ass) has the clip behind the trigger, not in front of it. I assume then - based on what you are saying, that this design is about preserving the advantages of a longer rifle barrel, while reducing the total length of the rifle at the same time, making it lighter and more easy to handle.
It has an awesome design by the way...
In this particular case (only) I'd prefer to give preference to Cameron's lore since It was Cameron the one who invented/brought them to the franchise. I really thought Ripley was still floating in space when the first of these things was built and then used for the first time by the company
There could be more than one incongruences in the timeline posted in this web, and anything they touch that was first brought to the franchise by Cameron and not Scott should try to connect better with Vameron's lore.
Hope Camerons' queen is not in their plans too
one could say so, shotguns are usually smooth bore so there's no centrifuge force in the shot. but having a smaller length means you have a smaller magazine tube. that's why sawn off shotguns are only a good idea with cheap break actions.
the drag actually helps the projectile gain energy. the explosion pushes the round, which, being soft lead, seals it completely against the rifling that spins it(which is what really stabilizes it in flight), all the way down to the muzzle. the longer and tigher it is, the more of the energy will be transfered to the bullet instead of turning into a flame at the end. but it also depends if this barrel is solid enough to direct the bullet; if the barrel is long but too thin or weak it will vibrate and and send the rounds all over the place. that's why you don't see sniper rifles with 2m long barrels.
- the inside of a gun barrel is in direct contact with the projectile, yes? So wouldn't a longer barrel reduce the speed of the projectile because of drag?
I assumed the necessity of a longer barrel, was about stabilizing the projectiles trajectory before it leaves the muzzle and thereby aiming for higher precision, not as much a higher projectile velocity...
Done.
the AP... i guess it would work if the one in the website said "coming soon" and it told us it's just a concept render, and by the time of aliens we could asume WY was just using old hardware because they're cheap bastards. but it doesn't. technology is that stangnant in the Aliens universe.
but the power loader is the worst of all. i mean, we have power loaders right now. they could have pasted an image of this:
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and it would have worked better.
i'm dissapointed at how they prefered to give fan service to casuals than getting creative and show us neat new stuff.
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Sure, it's just a viral, that's fine, but it is so mixed up in the setup of the new film that taking some aspects seriously and trying to ignore the rest is really hard to do.
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Except they mention FTL. You know... faster then light. But that's really not all that fast. So, yeh, it sound ridiculous.
In other news...
...I guess this maybe throws a wrench into the whole "the Company didn't find the Derelict on LV-426 cuz it was really, really cloudy!" thing.
The getting into terraforming can also be read that they're pushing that angle of the company more now, whilst dropping other things, basically seeing that they make the most money with the world-building and concentrating on that.
Also, as I have written before, for products like the flame-thrower, this is like Weyland's Golden Era, the ALIEN days with the W-Y merger shows a company 'not like it was when the old man was still running it' so to speak. Cheaper, crappier products are doled out for a quick and easy buck, the big W-Y money comes in from the 'Building Better Worlds'.
Bit disappointing really.
I wasn't disagreeing with you, just saying, why didn't they have the AP as coming soon rather than go into all these specifics, better still leave it out altogether if it won't be in the movie anyway. We know terraforming happens even in Ripley's time, but the AP is obviously something Cameron related to his film at that time, so why confuse things more with this awkward timeline, to me all this does is divert attention from the important thing which is the movie. .
Yeah sorry, I was trying to forget about it too. I should've secured that shit.
Still, IMO it's not nearly as bad as the infinite flame-thrower, because that thing is actually in the new film.
Wasn't even mad.
It's not even that so much (although I had vague notions that Thedus looked a bit like Io in Outland too). It's just Burke indicates that WY are only 'getting into' terraforming relatively recently. Kinda flies in the face of the fact WI invented it 150 years earlier.
I thought they were really trying too hard when I first read the timeline and that hasn't changed.
No. I DO remember Bryant bringing Deckard up to speed on the new Nexus 6's he had to hunt.
Just a conjecture...the specific pulse rifle depicted in Aliens is may be designed for "relatively" close quarters combat, in urban or even enclosed structural enviornments? Perhaps the "storm rifle" is more appropriate for open, longer range combat?
Yeah, I won't be letting the atmosphere processor stuff get in the way on this one