Rail guns are badass

Peter G. 28 Nov, 2007 at 3:51pm ET Article published in Tech

Comments

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   28 Nov 2007 ~ 4:21pm RADA Impressive.....
   
   
   ...now when are they gonna start work on lightsabres?
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   28 Nov 2007 ~ 4:39pm bothered What a sad use of brains.
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   28 Nov 2007 ~ 4:54pm broady81 I happen to know quite a few people who work at BAE, including my best friend :rolleyes2 So does ste actually - None of their UK operations are anything like this though, they just repair stuff (e.g. the Nimrod, older than some of Icrontic's members) over here :smiles:
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   28 Nov 2007 ~ 5:03pm ste i dont work for BAE :P
   
   my dad does,
   nimrod:
   
   
   
   to: bothered, yes, but if they didnt develop weapons, we would be defenceless against attack, i agree that in a `perfect` world there is no fighting and thus no need for weapons, but honny we dont live in a perfect world, and the nimrod is a survalence aircraft, mainly used for Search and rescue. so BAE arnt jsut about weapons
   
   
   ste
   ste
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   28 Nov 2007 ~ 5:35pm bothered

   ste wrote:

   to: bothered, yes, but if they didnt develop weapons, we would be defenceless against attack, i agree that in a `perfect` world there is no fighting and thus no need for weapons, but honny we dont live in a perfect world, and the nimrod is a survalence aircraft, mainly used for Search and rescue. so BAE arnt jsut about weapons
   
   
   ste
   ste

   
   I understand that. I just hope one day we evolve to the point where we stop wasting millions on killing each other. Maybe when more people say stop than don't we can move forward. I'm not criticising anybody, I just really hate the whole military, killing, war thing to the point that at times I despair about the human race. Like I said, what a sad use of brains.
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   28 Nov 2007 ~ 5:50pm BuddyJ I want a portable rail gun. It'd be totally sweet to take to the range. Target shooting with a rail gun would be super cool.
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   28 Nov 2007 ~ 6:02pm primesuspect I don't think a target exists that could stop a hand-held rail..... The "range" would be more of "what can I shoot through the thing"
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   28 Nov 2007 ~ 6:02pm mas0n

   bothered wrote:

   I just hope one day we evolve to the point where we stop wasting millions on killing each other.

   
   Trillions, sir. Trillions.
   
   Unfortunately, until peace is profitable this is where we're at.
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   28 Nov 2007 ~ 6:04pm mas0n You could bag a high speed plane from the ground with a handheld one. We will be fighting against these things in 20 years, we just have to sell them to our enemies first.
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    29 Nov 2007 ~ 4:03am ste understandable, yeh i suppose it would be good to evolve to that point.
    
    
    ste
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    29 Nov 2007 ~ 4:57am Your-Amish-Daddy SICVUS PACU PARABELLUM - If you want peace, prepare for war.
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    29 Nov 2007 ~ 10:40am CB

    Your Amish Daddy wrote:

    SICVUS PACU PARABELLUM - If you want peace, prepare for war.

    
    Ah yes, the beauty of MAD: Force the people of the world to choose between peace and Armageddon, then hope that none of the world leaders are idiots or fanatics.
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    29 Nov 2007 ~ 5:30pm Your-Amish-Daddy Could be worse...We could be a tribal society hell-bent on war with all other tribes, instead of only making weapons in the event of war.
14. 
    29 Nov 2007 ~ 5:42pm BuddyJ In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war.
    All I ever needed to know in life, I learned playing Warhammer 40K.
15. 
    29 Nov 2007 ~ 5:44pm broady81 For the Emperor !
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    29 Nov 2007 ~ 6:03pm RADA

    CB Droege wrote:

    ....world leaders are idiots or fanatics.

    
    *Rada looks around the world...... Ooopppss! Too Late!
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    29 Nov 2007 ~ 6:21pm Your-Amish-Daddy Yeah man. And all these anti-war and anti-weapon liberals always cry to Republicans when they're getting shelled back into the stone age. As soon as we finish a working railgun in the US, the next step will be MY favorite theory; The light driver. MAN that thing is gonna revolutionize war.
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    29 Nov 2007 ~ 6:21pm Thelemech

    Buddy Jesus wrote:

    In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war.
    All I ever needed to know in life, I learned playing Warhammer 40K.

    
    
    I agree and the starkness of your statement left me speechless in contemplation of this dark age of the future. Frag Time
    
    {I learned the future in UT}
    
    
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    29 Nov 2007 ~ 6:43pm fatcat THIS IS SPARTA!@!
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    29 Nov 2007 ~ 6:45pm Garg

    Your Amish Daddy wrote:

    Yeah man. And all these anti-war and anti-weapon liberals always cry to Republicans when they're getting shelled back into the stone age.

    
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21. 
    29 Nov 2007 ~ 7:31pm Your-Amish-Daddy Yep. I've got the Fantasy land gold card. 10% back on all purchases made there, and I even get rewards like extra days when I'm feeling down.
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    29 Nov 2007 ~ 7:37pm mas0n

    Gargoyle wrote:

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    thread over.
23. 
    30 Nov 2007 ~ 2:46am bothered

    Your Amish Daddy wrote:

    Could be worse...We could be a tribal society hell-bent on war with all other tribes, instead of only making weapons in the event of war.

    
    Take out 'instead of only' and that's where we seem to be. When I was younger I thought there'd be no more wars, that WW2 was supposed to end all that. We have had quite a few since then, just picked on different 'tribes'.
24. 
    30 Nov 2007 ~ 5:59am Your-Amish-Daddy Wow. That statement had a lot of buckshot in it. I'll leave it at this; you people live sheltered lives.
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    30 Nov 2007 ~ 6:10am bothered

    Your Amish Daddy wrote:

    you people live sheltered lives.

    That is probably true. I do get confused though when people seem to justify war on the basis that it's just human nature, which may also be true, but that doesn't mean there isn't a better way. I'd like to see a better way tried but as somebody said, there's no profit in peace.
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    30 Nov 2007 ~ 9:49am GHoosdum I think anyone who has comfortable enough living conditions to be posting on this forum lives a sheltered life, all things considered.