Quote from pestchamber on July 31, 2009, 6:51 pm

WinstonSmith wrote:

Not necessarily; if human-sized portals can be made, why not ammo-sized portals? There is the fact that portals can't be made on moving surfaces, but that would explain why the turrets deactivate when they're knocked over. The turrets firing blanks BTS might have just had their portals removed for service safety.

The theory can't work (because you can still move it without knocking it over), but i still like it

Quote from WinstonSmith on July 31, 2009, 6:53 pm

ASBusinessMagnet wrote:

If you take a turret and carefully land it on ground, it is still activated.

Gyroscope in the turret. If the turret is still upright, mini portalguns in the turret reform the portals. If the turret is toppled (because I know you're going to ask it), it's nearly impossible to reform, because every bullet shot would wiggle the turret--no stabilizing legs.
I know I'm grasping at straws here, but whatever...

Quote from ASBusinessMagnet on July 31, 2009, 6:56 pm

WinstonSmith wrote:

Gyroscope in the turret. If the turret is still upright, mini portalguns in the turret reform the portals. If the turret is toppled (because I know you're going to ask it), it's nearly impossible to reform, because every bullet shot would wiggle the turret--no stabilizing legs.
I know I'm grasping at straws here, but whatever...

Now that's an Aperture Science Floor Turret. The mechanism doing impossible with no flaws. I like this.

Quote from WinstonSmith on July 31, 2009, 6:57 pm

ASBusinessMagnet wrote:

Now that's an Aperture Science Floor Turret. The mechanism doing impossible with no flaws. I like this.

I'm flattered! (I hate using smileys...but...)

Quote from pestchamber on July 31, 2009, 7:02 pm

Man, this thread keeps getting better.

yes, even though there could be a portal inside the turret, where is the other portal? My guess would be, the turret has a limited amount of ammo, but all the ammo coming through the portal comes from a big storage room, made only for ammo.

EDIT:
This reminds me, how come the Half-Life 2 turrets never runs out of ammo either?

Quote from WinstonSmith on July 31, 2009, 7:03 pm

pestchamber wrote:

Man, this thread keeps getting better.

yes, even though there could be a portal inside the turret, where is the other portal? My guess would be, the turret has a limited amount of ammo, but all the ammo coming through the portal comes from a big storage room, made only for ammo.

My thinking precisely.

Quote from ASBusinessMagnet on July 31, 2009, 7:04 pm

pestchamber wrote:

Man, this thread keeps getting better.

yes, even though there could be a portal inside the turret, where is the other portal? My guess would be, the turret has a limited amount of ammo, but all the ammo coming through the portal comes from a big storage room, made only for ammo.

But who makes that ammo if it runs out?

Quote from WinstonSmith on July 31, 2009, 7:06 pm

ASBusinessMagnet wrote:

But who makes that ammo if it runs out?

There's a good chance that a Weighted Storage/Companion Cube factory exists within the complex. It's not all that much of a stretch to imagine an ammo factory.

Quote from pestchamber on July 31, 2009, 7:09 pm

WinstonSmith wrote:

There's a good chance that a Weighted Storage/Companion Cube factory exists within the complex. It's not all that much of a stretch to imagine an ammo factory.

But what happends when the factory runs out of resources?

EDIT: I smell a new page. And just to bring up what i said before:

where does the half-life 2 turrets get their ammo from?