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reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoPretty sure wizards are familiar with old technology like trains and cars. But like another comment said, muggles are advancing while wizards stagnate in their old ways and traditions and shit sice they keep themselves so separated.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 days ago
Combustion is very old technology. Putting it inside a different machine (e.g. a gun or a car engine) doesn’t change the chemistry. If you want to get right down to it, we’re just talking about oxidation - which means that in any sort of world where rapid oxidation doesn’t work (i.e. explosives), your lungs also don’t work because you need that oxygen bonding with the iron in your hemoglobin or you die.
If you can light a fire, you can make an explosion. If you can make an explosion, you can use it to launch a projectile.
There’s no world in which fire exists but guns are impossible. Even if you don’t have the metalworking sophistication for a modern gun, you could still make a Chinese-style gunpowder rocket.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Or just straight up bombs. The beauty is that an IED can catch even a master wizard off guard. No need for metalworking, and since they have cars, well… surely there is some character with Irish roots, right?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Son of an Irish muggle, even
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
This is a world with flying broomsticks and cars, teleportation, and even time travel.
Of course you can get away with saying gunpowder just doesn’t explode here.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Gunpowder is just fire propagating at the speed of sound through solid (powder). As long as sound exists, the magical world can’t exclude the angry dust.