Off topic, but did you actually spend the time to paste all these multifarious screen names together from everybody who posted something on this thread? Or is there some automated fashion to do that? When I say All, it just comes out on the list as All. And it does ping everybody who posted to that point, but I don’t get a list out of it.
Anyhow, “flattest shooting”? In outer space almost all the ballistic advantage of having a rifle would be gone, wouldn’t it?
Yes. No, but I have text editing tools that help. Barring black holes, wormholes, dark matter, and the occasional photon; there would be SOME advantages that old technology has over new technology.
As long as space-time remains constant; that is...
There is no automated way that I know.
I’ve often thought I should figure out how to write a little thread parser that would extract that information. It shouldn’t be very hard.
Oh, and while the ballistics advantage would be gone, there would still be the optical and mechanical advantages. Longer sight radius, the ability to have higher velocity output from a longer barrel, and to be better able to hold the weapon steady for a shot, would all still be important advantages of a rifle over a pistol.