Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "High-Tech Railgun Promises New Military Advantage" video.

  1. You do realize that Islam is at war with the west? They have been real bad at it so we don't hardly notice it, but eventually these stupid terrorists are gonna piss off the USA and European Union so much that they forget their manners and show the house of Islam what real modern warfare is like, not some limited police action were we try to fix what we broke but a real war. The the house of Islam will develop a new vocabulary, which will include new phrases like, neutron bomb, sensor fuzed weapons, swarming drones and robots. Just keep it up. . . .l Or you could put away your religious insanity and walk into the glorious galactic future of mankind, but I kind of think you prefer death. In a war where one side loves death, and the other loves life, they will both end up getting the thing they love.
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  2. The fact that the American armed forces combat rifleman still has to aim his m4 manually while we have current technology that could automate an electonic trigger and only shoot the target when it will hit it is criminal. We have tech that would make every shot a standard rifle shot a kill shot and every range within 2000 meters or so. Why are not our troops being equipped with rifles that don't miss, when I can buy one down in Texas?
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  3. great idea, if you want to destroy your payload, cause nothing alive will withstand that acceleration and shock and probably not many inert object either, not any sensitive tech thats for sure. Too many Gs
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  4. drmodestoesq OK  Well it is a cool idea even if the tech to build it will have to be developed.
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  5. What you have now is a mag-lev train to space not a gun.
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  6. I think there may be some problems with escape velocity and the energy needed to ascend that slowly?  Also with the fact that their will be huge differences in atmospheric pressure and wind velocity on distant parts of the structure.  The "projectile may have to have a tight fit against the barrel in order to maintain enough pressure to escape yet with such a tight seal the vacuum created in the barrel beneath the projectile when the projectile ascended beyond a certain point would be greater than the energy available to move it higher.
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  7. Why not use the vacuum of space itself to suck the payload up? ;)
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