On Oct 8, 1:26 pm, Jeffrey Kaplan  wrote:   
   > Previously on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, Bruce Goatly said:   
   >   
   > > JMS (not you, Jan!) was roundly criticized for the steam gun in "Grey 17 is   
   > > Missing". Jem Stansfield has proved hin right in a recent edition of Bang   
   > > Goes the Theory. Clip at .   
   >   
   > Not.   
   >   
   > He's just using steam to create a pressure difference and using that   
   > pressure to propel a projectile.  Basically, an air gun but with steam   
   > instead of plain air.   
   >   
   > Plus, his talk about how this might be used by solar generators is   
   > babble.  That is exactly how power plants work using fossil or nuclear   
   > fuels:  Burn the fuel to create heat which boils water which creates   
   > steam which turns turbine blades that generate electricity.  And any   
   > kid with a magnifying glass is familiar with the concept of focusing   
   > the sun's energy to create a hot spot.   
   >   
   > As for how this relates to Garibaldi's bullets in the steam pipe,   
   > again: Not.   
   >   
   > Garibaldi wasn't using the steam to create pressure, he was using it to   
   > "cook off" the gun powder.  Whether or not the steam is hot enough to   
   > do that I don't know, but if it is it wouldn't result in such an easily   
   > aimable weapon, the bullets would tumble and scatter.  There is a   
   > reason why gun barrels are the same diameter as the projectiles and why   
   > they're riffled.  That pipe was neither.   
   And so ends the Mythbusters Babylon 5 Special.   
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