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Originally Posted by Trbo323
i guess im not getting through to you about the huge holes in your argument, your saying that a hybrid car that gets 40mpg is an innovation even though you put the same exact thing in the fuel tank but a marker that gets 50,000 shots per tank is NOT an innovetion even though you are putting something different in the tank (and i dont know about you but from what i learned in school propane and co2 do not have the same atomic makeup)
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That's because I specifically said, the battery portion of a hybrid is innovative...not the hybrid itself. Battery powered automobiles are still rare enough that it's still innovative, even if hybrids aren't the first. Doesn't matter the mileage it gets, the battery portion is the innovative part, since before the 80's, it had never been done, and even when hybrids started being introduced, it was rare as rocs teeth.
So you're saying diesel engines were innovative? They're not. They use a different fuel, they use a completely different way of burning fuel, but guess what, they weren't innovative. Just a slightly different way of doing the same thing. Making power out of a liquid fuel to move an automobile. Now do you understand my point? co2 and propane are different...but they're both compressed gasses attached via a tank that the marker then uses to propel a paintball. I's the same thing, with a slightly different way of accomplishing it. It's NOT innovative.
And no, I don't consider semi-auto's inherently BETTER. I prefer them, yes, they're faster, yes, but better, no. I consider it an innovation since it DRASTICALLY altered the very concept of the game, how it was played, and everything else. And it completely changed how markers (those that went semi-auto) were desiged. No longer were they a single hollow tube with a hammer/valve...they were much more complex, bigger, heavier, etc. Nothing else in paintball has truly done that.