Electromagnetic Railgun world record setting event

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The Office of Naval Research Electromagnetic Railgun located at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, fired a world-record setting 33 megajoule shot, breaking the previous record established January, 31, 2008.

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  • in laymens terms.....the fire is there beacuse it's going so fast it catches air on fire...

  • Oh, joy. This is simply wonderful news. What a boon for humanity.

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  • @ashtreylil1 NO! it's because round is heated by electricity and it is boiling metal.

  • @PROJEK3 EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

  • daaamn that would launch a midget to outer space

  • @ashtreylil1 nope... the assloads of amps flowing through the rails and projectile create a massive arc when it leaves the rails...the fire is plasma ;-)

  • and with all those kids dying you wasted time and in turn their lives while you sat there and decided the best way to help was to write their plight on youtube.?! probably on what I'm guessing is your own personal computer too... if you really cared about the dying Africans you'd sell all your shit and give them the proceeds... but you obviously don't... I hope you feel like shit you fucking hypocrite...

  • @solandri69

    No science payload would be able to sustain the amazing g force generated going from 0 to Mach 7.5 under ~20 feet / few milliseconds. What would be required to alleviate the g force is to build a rail many miles long to increase the speed over a much longer period of time. I'm thinking of a 45 degree angle rail build on the side of a large mountain starting a few miles underground. We can build the LHC, so we could build that too.

  • The germans and the japanese do it (educed) during the WWII.

  • Why so much smoke?

    

  • The Soviet Union did it in the sixties.

  • Railgun, what are you doing? Stop catching the atmosphere on fire, you silly railgun.

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