What weapons should you take on a manned Mars mission?

>>35122422
A revolver

>>35122422
air

>>35122422
Potatoes and shit.

>>35122422
chainsaw

autism

>>35122445
>6 shots
haha ok

>>35122422
Me.

>>35122422
>What weapons should you take on a manned Mars mission?
>Implying that it isnt better to die.

to be honest, humanities first interaction with alien life will be like the movie "alien".

Alien contact can bring new diseases. Any contact will mean that you are most likely to die on what ever rock you landed because coming back could jeapordize humanity.

Only way to prove it would safe would be to take all kinds of tools and equipment. you cant bring it back because you risk killing it, humanity, and all of life on earth and your contact is threat to their planet as well. Pretty much all first contact is a gamble that could wipe out either species.

mosin nagant of course

>>35122422
Anything with a blade.

>>35122469
more than enough to kill anything that moves

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>>35122422
Some space gun, but orange this time.

>>35122477
>humanities first interaction with alien life will be like the movie "alien".

Watch life great flick

>>35122478
My nigga

>>35122805
Looked dumb as shit and just a copycat of Alien with less space to move around.

Someone post the "Mosins on mars" pasta, I'm on mobile and can't find it.

>>35122422
>Mass is strictly rationed
>completely barren planet
>humans in high pressure psychological environment
Don't take any.

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SKS

>>35122422
that depends, what type of ayys are we dealing with?

if they're on our tech level or slightly above
>on planet with insignificant atmosphere and low gravity (mars/the moon for example)
>lever action rifle with water cooled barrel + insulated tube mag, ammo needs to be as fast as possible, weight is not an issue
>lots and lots of armor plates (to the point that you can just barely move, weight is not an issue but mass is)
>main tactic is simply to punch holes in the enemy's habitat if it was brought down from orbit, and if the habitat is more robust to damage cooling loops/kill personnel/puncture fuel tanks/destroy eengines

>on planet with significant atmosphere and earth gravity (so earth)
>normal earth tactics, just imagine assaulting one of those antarctic bases but just in maybe 100C ammonia

>in orbit
>no man portable weapons

if they're vastly above our tech level
>on planet with insignificant atmosphere and low gravity
>recoilless rifles out the ass
>did i say recoilless rifles?
>oh yeah and recoilless rifles
>make sure to bring mortars too, use them at extremely long ranges or for direct fire

>on planet with significant atmosphere and earth gravity
>saturate with artillery

>in orbit
>space kamikaze

>>35124621
This. Satisfy your plinking desires by fashioning airguns and coilguns from unneeded hardware. Design and fabrication is half the fun anyway.

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>>35122445
I like this man

>>35124621
>don't take any guns
>get attacked by aliens that are vulnerable only to bullets
you people are so negligent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZWvsIBrfxM

>>35124635
But there's no wood on Mars!
A shotgun filled with seed shot on the other hand...

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The only reasonable answer.

>>35122422
.22 lr

Simply give everyone a bunch of M60s. Weight isn't a problem, surface gravity is only 38% of what it is on Earth.

>>35122445

would a semi automatic even function properly in a zero G setting?

revolvers might actually be good space guns

>>35126916
>would a semi automatic even function properly in a zero G setting?

You do know how gravity works, right? Mars ain't a zero-G environment.

>>35126971
I dont really care about mars anon

>>35126986
Then why are you on a Mars thread?

>>35127097

Stop being a jerK? Back off dude i want to talk about guns in space

Tooth pick

>>35125114
>there are aliens on mars

>there are aliens in the galaxy

>there are aliens

>>35126916
It probably would work just fine in space. The main issue is supposedly the rifling will get gummed up by all the hot metal particles that normally oxidize and blow out of the gun when there's air. I don't know if this happens, I haven't tried it.

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Vektor R4.

In honor of Elon Musk's homeland.

>>35122445
rip station integrity and rip anon

>shoot gun
>bullet goes through wall
>oxygen leaks out
>anon dies

I mean maybe a bullet with a pretty low velocity like the .455 , but you dont really need a gun on mars desu

M70 with a lot of ammo, grenade sights, grenade launch tube, rifle grenades, what ever else you need to have an assault rifle that can launch grenades as well.
I have a hunch that the ayys we first meet will be just a tiny bit more advanced than us, kinda like ww1 country with a solid army against a ww2 country with a solid army, us on defence ofcourse.
I dont think we can settle many differences fast enough to stand cohesive

>>35128807
Leave this board

>>35128894
No

>>35122477
>Alien contact can bring new diseases.
Wut? You can barely catch anything from fucking your dog raw and thats two species from the same planet that have cohabitated for eons. How is space aids going to get past the biomoleculer barriers?

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>>35122422
SP1. I must make my grandfather proud

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>>35128954
Are you fucking retarded or something?

>>35128684
>The main issue is supposedly the rifling will get gummed up by all the hot metal particles that normally oxidize
no, the main issue is that any two parts made of the same material will instantly weld together the moment you fire

>>35129520
Then explain how anon would get space aids from an alien life form that in no way evolved to give a species it never encountered a disease.

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>>35122477
>Alien
>literally a bio-engineered weapon that has an ineffective way of producing itself (why not just use spores or even just asexual reproduction)
>realistic

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>fire arms in space
>using anything with gun power

do you plebs even space?

closest thing to a weapon you would want is a powerful sedative in a syringe or some other delivery method like a small dart gun

>>35129802
>t. rapist

>>35128786
>>35128807
the gun is for use outside the station, sillies

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>>35122422
>What weapons should you take

Religion

dont they have like, giga kevlar on the ISS to stop micrometeorites and shit

>>35129749
The Native Americans and the Colonists

>>35129749

You're right in the way that it would be very, very, astronomically improbable to catch an alien's cold. In all likelyhood we would be immune to alien diseases insofar as the disease working on us the same way it works on an alien.

The real issue would be more wild. Alien organic compounds might have no ability to interact with us at all... or perhaps utterly foreign biological matter could cause us to have wild allergic reactions or make us go in to shock. The body doesn't tend to do very well when exposed to shit it has never, ever encountered before. Maybe their organic compounds could be utterly toxic to us while being totally benign to them. If alien bacteria (or their equivalent to bacteria at least) has any way of interacting with our cells and bacteria then we would surely be in for a world of shit. an energy source is an energy source. If alien bacteria has any way of using our bodies as food then physical contact is a really, really bad idea. The same would go for any alien species. They would risk as much as we would with contact.

>>35129932

Same planet, same species separated by only a few thousand years of geographic isolation. Not really a good comparison.

>>35129932
Native Americans and the colonists were both humans. We're talking about something that isn't even from our own planet.

>>35129969
Ok that makes more sense, assuming what we're talking about is even carbon based or can consume carbon based matter. Toxic allergens also would also be applicable.

>>35129857
wh-whats outside the station

ray gun, duh. Everyone knows you need space guns in space, even if we need to invent them first.

>>35122422
a machete

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>>35122422

>>35129749
Not him but depends on how similar the life forms are and how virulent the disease is.

On the one hand you're right that if you meet a planet of goo people with entirely different physiology, anatomy, and even basic building blocks of life who are relatively primitive you'll PROBABLY be ok unless you're very unlucky.

OTOH considering nobody knows what form alien life may take it's also possible some aliens may be similar enough to share diseases, which could potentially be very bad.

Perhaps even more worrisome would be very advanced or multispecies civilizations which could potentially have next gen biological weapons or simply diseases that have developed to become very good at infecting different hosts. Either of those would be pretty bad too.

>>35127111
i thought this was about guns on Mars

>>35129765
Mars, not space

>>35130751
I like the way you think. G11 was my first thought

Will guns even work in the mars atmosphere?

>>35130937
>gun powder formula
KNO3+C7H4O+2S⟶K2CO3+K2SO4+K2S+4CO2+2CO+2H2O+3N2

it doesnt need any oxygen from the surroundings to combust, so yea they work in space, mars, wherever.

>>35130990
But doesn't it require expanding gas to propel bullet

>>35127111
You'd better shut your cock holster before I jam it shut with my fat 9 incher, you semen slurping butt spelunker?

>>35131254
>it generates it's own, anon.
Shirley, you must be joking.

>>35130937
only the sight/aim parameters change

>>35129728
this wont be an issue

>>35127205
>there are aliens
If we are the only form of intelligent life in the universe then I will be completely shocked.
Would be neat though as it would make us as the dominant species.
That and it would give us an excuse to start manufacturing intelligent creatures.

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gyrojet carbine

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>>35128954
Your immune system has evolved for millions of years to be adapted to the pathogens of earth.

>>35129749
>I believe all disease is caused by viruses. What the fuck is a bacteria?
>I believe viruses not currently adapted to target human cells can never evolve to target them. Swine flu? Bird flu? The Plague? The fuck is that?

>>35129765
Lasers aren't so great in space. Sure, there's no atmosphere to worry about, but the general distances involved in space warfare are so huge that any laser is going to lose a lot of its focus by the time it reaches its target.

>>35125918
Full marks for style anon.

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>>35126986
>>35127111
This isn't the thread for that and those triples were sadly wasted on a complete retard.

To answer your dumb shit question here >>35126916 the answer is yes and I hope somebody uppercuts your sister so you can't breed.

Fuck I hate stupid people.

>>35133669
do you always have a stick up your ass anon?

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>>35133695
Do you always sniff your socks when you take them off and furiously masturbate to your own stench?

I ask because that seems like a dumb thing to do and we've already established that you're a retard.

I would think in the range of a 57mm PVC recoilless rifle, minimum charge loads. scrap metal for countershot. Fragmentation HE.

If alien and our biology are compatible, lace warheads with flesh-eating bacteria for maximum effect.

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>>35122422
Do you even have to ask?

>>35130538
Space Carp, Xenos, Xeno Clowns.
And maybe a few mineral rich asteroids.

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>>35124640

>>35122422
>WEAPONS
>ON MARS
lmoa like lazors n shit bruh