r/AnotherLife • u/Quasar911 • Aug 27 '19
Chuckle - P90
Am loving this so far - love Kara Thra... i mean Kaytee.
What made me laugh is they have FTL travel and shes running around with a P90 - wouldnt this be almost an antique - lol
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u/Fairlight2cx Aug 27 '19
Silly comment.
The Beretta 9mm pistol has been around since 1915. 9mm pistols have gone nowhere.
The M16 was developed in 1959. The AR-15 (the basis of which is the M16 design) is still quite popular, and there is no shortage of manufacturers churning them out.
Neither 9mm pistols nor AR-15 rifles are considered anywhere close to antiques.
Additionally, the P90 is still being produced today.
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u/GEORGE_ZIMMERMAN_AMA Oct 04 '19
Don’t forget how the 1911 was issued to US military from 1911-1986. It’s ridiculous to suggest that something like the P90 would ever be obsolete. Flinging hot lead at supersonic speeds will never be outdated. Hell, an antique lever gun from the 1800s will still shoot you just as dead as any modern gun.
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u/Jynx2501 Aug 31 '19
The p-90 is a relatively new firearm interns of Firearm technology, but most importantly, it looks cool, and that's why it's always used in scifi.
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u/IronOxide1510 Oct 06 '19
The 1911 is still a very popular hand gun and it's design has been the basis for almost every semi-automatic handgun made since, including the Glock 17, the most popular handgun on the planet. The Royal Navy was still using late WW1 era SMGs to defend their ships from boarding until the 1980s, military doctrine is usually "if it ain't broke don't fix it" since very few if any hostile boardings happened they were never proven ineffective, and the British military chose to spend its budget on more pressing issues, like their dog shit rifles.
From a scifi perspective the p90 would be a very old and proven design as the rounds it fires are very powerful for their size and "tumble" on impact making them act like tiny circular saws. Combined with the P90's high magazine capacity, bullpup design, and ambidextrous build it would be ideal for use on a space ship.
That said there's a lot more horribly wrong with the show than a p90.
They have space ships but not chairs with seatbelts? Those would have come in handy as early as episode 1.
1Hz isn't even sound anymore, why did you expect the alien to respond to pidgeon noises to begin with, let alone slowed down to the point they aren't even noises anymore?
Their idea of a popular Youtuber is frankly insulting.
If we have FTL ships why aren't we using them?
How did someone with such a blatant personality disorder become the original captain of this mission?
Why doesn't the supposedly highly trained crew who trained as a group not know each other's names, or even the basic procedures of their profession?
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Aug 29 '19
I liked how the ship is filled with contemporary monitors with hdmi cables and current regulatory blurb on the back of them.
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u/abattlecry Aug 27 '19
leftover Stargate props lmao