Wouldn't be too surprising. It seems to me that the sound effects guys (Foley artists, I think, in filmspeak) use a pret

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Kuato_and_George — 12 years ago(August 19, 2013 09:31 AM)

Just because it's the future doesn't mean they'd have energy weapons. This movie was obviously going for a more realistic approach and considering guns have been around for 100s of years and still use bullets, I'd say their choice was pretty accurate.
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shankmaker — 11 years ago(April 27, 2014 01:49 AM)

I didn't have time to read all 100 responses to this threadbut an obvious question:
Shotguns, i.e., gunpowder requires oxygen to trigger an exothermic reaction. Would a shotgun even work in space? I think Mythbuster's did show that a gun will successfully fire in a vacuum.

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trekkie313 — 11 years ago(January 16, 2015 11:55 PM)

They weren't in a vacuum when inside the station. I suspect the oxygen level was higher than earth, thus a gun would easily work.
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ragsbar — 9 years ago(October 28, 2016 10:45 AM)

Someone smarter than me may correct my response, but I believe the three components for the exothermic reaction, heat, an oxygenator and fuel are all chemically contained in the cartridge casing.
That is why a gun can be fired underwater.

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Colonel-Lingus — 10 years ago(August 06, 2015 02:17 PM)

I think the movie was pretty visionary. We'll be landing men on Mars long before portable hand held directed energy weapons become a working reality.
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