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Well.. Portal gun is sooo much cooler so I picked it in the poll..
But honestly, without those Chell's super advanced leg defenders I'd pick gravity gun.
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The Portal Gun could probably kill you, andwouldn't work due to the fact you require the White Gel to make Portals.
Nail on the head. Also, you can generally be reckless with the gravity gun. Without those impact defying legs straps being stupid with the portal gun would get you killed.
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Gravity gun doesn't require much intelligence to use. Pick something up and then throw it at something or just move it from place to place. Repeat randomly until something works.
Portal gun requires more intelligence to work out where you can use it, how you should use it, and why you should use it. And those talking about the impact defying leg straps stopping you getting killed, who says you have to go through it yourself?
Annoying boss? Put a portal above his head, then add another one beneath the company safe. Or just put the second one beneath him and watch his reaction as he falls further than the guy who recently parachuted from 18 miles high! Gotta be more fun than a gravity gun!
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Doctadeth wrote: Gravity gun. Unless you have moon rock, the portal gun is useless.
And then you have to liquefy it, and that would leave you with a small puddle which you could probably only poke your finger through, and it would cost millions to acquire more.
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My vote goes for the gravity gun since it would help save time and the ocasional life on the construction sites i work on, some one slips off a 30 story building and falling to their death? not anymore he aint! Big arse load and the crane is goin to cost at least a grand to move it? not anymore
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Gravity Gun. Its use is simpler and has more applications. No need for forklifts or heavy machinery, just use the gravity gun. The portal gun would allow you to move from point A to point B easier but you would at least have to have that location in LOS as well as good/great aim in order to place the portal in the first place. Also, the portal gun can only create a hole just large enough for a person to fit through while the gravity gun can handle larger objects.
Maybe, but imagine setting up a portal to the moon.and setting up a moon base with it. Gravity gun's nowhere near powerful enough for that kind of thing.
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Melissia wrote: Maybe, but imagine setting up a portal to the moon.and setting up a moon base with it. Gravity gun's nowhere near powerful enough for that kind of thing.
But you'll need a gravity gun in order to build you moon base.
Melissia wrote: Maybe, but imagine setting up a portal to the moon.and setting up a moon base with it. Gravity gun's nowhere near powerful enough for that kind of thing.
But you'll need a gravity gun in order to build you moon base.
Also, the Portal could send you flying into Space, and you'd need to have an incredibly good aim to get back to your original location.
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Yes, you could set up an entire moonbase by fitting each piece through a 6' by 3' hole and reassembling it on the other side. I've seen videos of students doing something similar to various peoples' cars by moving them indoors.
You also can't lift anything heavier than a weighted companion cube with it either. A workforce equipped with gravity guns (supercharged gravity guns especially) will be more productive than a workforce equipped with portal guns. The exception being office workers but some have pneumatic tubes for the same purpose.
Melissia wrote: Maybe, but imagine setting up a portal to the moon.and setting up a moon base with it. Gravity gun's nowhere near powerful enough for that kind of thing.
But you'll need a gravity gun in order to build you moon base.
No you wouldn't. You'd just need to bring the equipment over there in pieces small enough to fit through a door, which is definitely doable.
Hell, the SCP Foundation set up a moonbase with a far more restricted portal.
Also, the Portal could send you flying into Space, and you'd need to have an incredibly good aim to get back to your original location.
So? You'd not be using a person to aim it anyway, you'd be using a machine to make sure the aim is exactly where you want it to be. Then you'd open the portal, close and seal the ceiling, and wait behind an airlock as you go about bringing in the materials to construct the base.
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Okay mel, Even if you did open a portal on the moon, how would you get the lunar rock to open the earthside portal? Even if you did get the US authorities to give you some of the 17 kilos of rock, you'd need to gel it. Not worth the cost IMO. And then you also have the speed you get emerging from the portals as well. If I recall correctly, chell survived only because she had the leg braces surgically implanted.
Portals just maintained momentum, it didn't increase it. The braces were not surgically implanted and were simply because at times she could fall hundreds if not thousands of meters due to portal placement.
Actually, if you paid attention to Portal 2, you do NOT need to gel lunar rock.
The gel is made FROM lunar rocks. Chell was able to open a portal to the moon simply by firing at it.
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Keep in mind that much of the stuff from portal 2 was actually considered LESS advanced than the stuff from portal 1, in that they were advances made several decades in the past, before the current version of the portal gun.
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So how does a gravity gun help out when you've just locked yourself out of your house?
"Darn, just locked myself out. Oh well, I'll just fire up my trusty Gravity Gun and ...." Rip the door out of the wall? Rip the roof off?
Portal gun version.
"Oh dear, locked out. Never mind, be right back." Portals through the wall, returns with keys and don't even have to re-lock the door as you leave!
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