Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow discussions/@comment-28391157-20160506024146

 Ok so this is a TV show but still can you have a little scientific accuracy? These are just a few pet peeves that I have after watching a few episodes.

1. Snart's Cold Gun: So this gun is suppose to shoot a beam that freezes whatever it touches down to absolute zero (not possible, but hey its cool :D). Absolute zero is when the substance is so cold that all molecules stop moving. So shouldn't his gun be freezing the very air around the beam? Shouldn't he be creating walls of frozen air  (I know what your thinking, just "let it go" already) ? Instead the people he shoots just look like they just got punched or pushed.

2. Rory's Heat Gun: This is the opposite of the cold gun, creating a beam of absolute hot (fire?). Now absolute hot is about 1.417 x 10^32 Kelvin (that's 29 zeroes after the seven). To put that into perspective, an fusion bomb only produces a max temperature of about 1 x 10^6 kelvin which is plenty enough to vaporise a human being (which vaporizing temp. is about 4,500 Kelvin). So the his fire "beam" should be vaporizing his foes, instead he gets this puny flamethrower that looks like what I get with a can of cooking spray and a match (don't try it). Also it should be hot enough to shred the atomic structures so that it would create tiny nuclear explosions, literally turning anything he shoots into an atomic bomb. (Note: Sara is hotter)

3. Palmer's ATOM Suit: First, I love this suit. I think it is in most ways better than some of Iron Man's suits. I mostly have issue with the consistancy of its power. In one episode, he is able to vaporize metal shards in Kendra's blood stream and even a miniterized blaster that fell off his suit is strong enough to kill a grown man. But other times it doesn't seem to be able to do (blanky blank blank). Also why doesn't he stay in his miniterized form when he fights? If he maintians his mass when he shrinks, then when he punches he will be doing the same amount of damage of a low powered hand gun. Lets do some physics. An average male (170 lb) can deliver about 400 joules of energy in a punch. A standard 9mm can deliver about 500 joules. So theretically if Palmer punches with all his strength in his miniturized form (so his fist would be about a square milimeter), he should be able penetrate skin and do some major work on bad guys. Also when he is enlarged other people can hit him back, but if he is small, nobody would be able to hit him.

I really like the show, but they just seemed to be underpowered for being some of the smartest guys (i.e. Palmer) and have some of the most powerful weapons. I guess I'm just irked that these weapons are suppose to be one of a kind, but they just don't seem to be anything special. What do you guys think?  