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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 7495129" data-attributes="member: 8835">I'm back from a busy day or so of busy stuff. So I'll try to clarify what I can for everybody.  Thanks to Nagol for reminding Umbran of the parameters.  Umbran's right to ask, it's just that i've got restrictions that I chose to work with, like not killing bad guys in the first book.To Eltab, I don't have a diagram (it's a vision in my head based on a real place I saw from the crowd's perspective).  It is on a roof/near top floor of a building under construction across from an open roof sports place.As this is for my first novel that I hope to get Rich and Famous(TM) from, I've got to be a little more circumspect with the details. That's a big if...The actual gun is on a turret, controlled by a computer.  You can google how to make one (everything in the first novel is or almost is Mythbusters Plausible).  I may stretch that in places, but I try to base things on stuff I've seen.The hero is not bullet proof but does have the equivalent of a bullet proof vest.  It's unlikely he could survive all 50 rounds for any variety of reasons.The hero's tech isn't allowed to kill in this book, call it a design decision by the hero before the book started.  He might regret that line of thinking by the time this is over.  Also, the beta-readers seem convinced that he won't kill somebody. Not sure how they got that idea, but the guy as evolved on the page will have to find where that line is someday.The tech should have LOS to the gun, recognize it as a threat, and project direction of shot based on  the barrel.  I am not sure if it could see the trigger being pulled, but I could rule that in.We can move the turret a little farther away (perhaps another 10 feet to reach the power outlet).  The tech can be perched on something higher and closer (on the same block as the building where this confrontation takes place).Yes, I just had the idea of the hero unplugging the turret before he strolls into the scene, or something.  And then having the bad guy fire it manually, which might be more gratifying for the bad guy (they have feelings too).By high speed cameras, I mean like the ones Mythbusters uses to watch bullets hit things.  Allegedly, the tech exists.  The sci-fi part being that computers can handle the data and use it to shoot down bullets. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It sounds like there are hints of this being plausible from a angle/mass thing, but the distances suck (which is why I can move the gun back and the tech closer). I don't have to deliver the math to an editor, but it'd be nice when one of y'all read the book, you'd say, "well, you know, if the conditions were such and such, it just might be possible..." in an internet argument. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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