Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Electromagnetic Railguns - The U.S Military's future Superguns - 200 mile range Mach 7 projectiles" video.

It's a tired old theme but--Imagine where we'd be if investing all this destructive effort in to something CONSTRUCTIVE.
38
@iamkurgan1126 I'm all for sensible necessary self defense, unavoidable. But you'er joking about "higher standard of living" spending vast sums on these things. It's a scandal the way it's done in the USA, the system is set up to milk the taxpayer making us all far poorer and LESS SECURE as a trillion dollar budget deficit threatens the viability of the nation. You don't become prosperous by building expensive things to flush down the toilet.
1
@iamkurgan1126 Watch them figure out how to take a simple kinetic projectile, break it into 1000 pieces to have a bit manufactured in ever congressional district in the nation and make it more expensive than solid platinum!
1
@iamkurgan1126 Also--you may not understand it but some weapon systems inherently make us LESS SECURE, anti-ballistic missile missils are one of those. (as mentioned in the vid) They cause both sides to be far more hair trigger with their thermonuclear weapons, that's not a good thing This is why the USA sought and signed the treaty against such weapons way back when. Just ask I'll explain it to you.
1