Kind of puts me in mind of a quote from Montgomery Scott in Star Trek III.
There's a REASON the M1911 is STILL considered one of the top handguns in the world, you know. (actually there's a lot of reasons, but I'd say the main one is reliability.)
Now mind you - if/when personal weapons are needed in exotic environments like - oh - space, we might start seeing stuff like metal storm or directed energy weapons find a place. As good as modern firearms are, they just don't work very well in hard vacuum or micro-gravity. Something like Metal Storm might do the trick, there.
Quote:SCOTTY: "The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain!"
There's a REASON the M1911 is STILL considered one of the top handguns in the world, you know. (actually there's a lot of reasons, but I'd say the main one is reliability.)
Now mind you - if/when personal weapons are needed in exotic environments like - oh - space, we might start seeing stuff like metal storm or directed energy weapons find a place. As good as modern firearms are, they just don't work very well in hard vacuum or micro-gravity. Something like Metal Storm might do the trick, there.