Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "The Reality of Gauss Rifles and Coil Guns w/ David Wirth of Arcflash Labs" video.

@barttorbert5031 People who manages to fail even more spectacularly than anyone has ever succeeded tend to go down in history forever, whereas those who succeed are only remembered until someone supersedes them. Moral of the story: Lose with style in the most hilarious way possible to become immortal... Such are the teachings of Gun Jesus! :P
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The two ounce projectiles, assuming they reach 75m/s, should hit you with 157N at point blank which is not a whole hecking lot... but it is the equivalent of lying down and having a 346lbs rod standing on your chest... that is only .5" thick... Those projectiles don't need to be particularly pointy to be absolutely lethal....
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Henry and Josh from 9 Hole Reviews would have done a good job too.
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@benjenkinson1470 Trust me the US Navy is looking into that... Being able to fire shells from a ship without the massive booms and muzzle flashes would be totally their thing...
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@JiSe6669 Exactly. As soon as the military sees this as viable for armoured vehicles weapons (they're fairly stealthy but heavy hitting when scaled up) we could see a massive amount of focused research.... but then again, Napoleon scuffed at steam powered ships because that was never going to go anywhere... What top brass wants to investigate, and what not, seems completely random sometimes.
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COOL! As an electronics nerd and a firearms admirer this ticks ALL the boxes! I don't care one bit that this isn't "tacticool approved" yet... it hurls heavy steel slugs with electromagnetism! Like I wanna aim this thing at an adobe brick and see what happens. Or a milkshake. Or a big block of ice.... The industry standard water melon test is also absolutely mandatory!
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@BoredLikeHelI That's like saying "if they needed more than 200 meters of runway the Wright Brothers 200 meters flight is just more noise"... Yes, fusion is fucking hard. Yes we've heard about it for ages. Yes they still need more funding because it's so fucking hard. But the math checks out. The laws of physics say we can make energy from this. Figuring out how to do it safely, predictably and controllably is mandatory before scaling it up to the kind of size that yields net energy excess. It's been known almost from the get-go that these needed to be gigantic to yield net energy excess.
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