Comments by "uguysrnuts" (@UguysRnuts) on "Could We Launch Spacecraft with a Giant Space Gun?" video.

  1. Bull's plan was for multiple detonations along the length of the barrel, so the payload would accelerate in stages. There were pairs of combustion chambers veed off the barrel every few hundred yards along it's length. The longer the barrel, the less g-load.
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  2. The "Super Gun" from the 60's which Canadian Gerald Bull was building for Saddam Hussein before he woke up dead one day, sat in pieces in a quayside storage yard for years until a friend bought the gun-metal extrusion for mere pennies on the dollar, which he used to construct a fifty foot long concrete schooner you can see Mark Wahlberg sailing off into the sunset on in the final scene of the movie "The Big Hit".
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